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Major HSBC Layoffs: 35,000 Job Cuts and Massive Restructuring Announced

22.2.2020
Banking giant HSBC has unveiled a major restructuring plan that includes 35,000 job cuts. The move came as the bank’s net profit plunged 53% last year. HSBC is also slashing $100 billion in assets and closing many branches. “This represents one of the deepest restructuring...

Poloniex Deletes Trading History After Trades ‘Executed Erroneously’

11.2.2020
Seychelles-registered crypto exchange Poloniex has rolled back 12 minutes of trading history after a bug detected in the system caused trades to be “executed erroneously,” the company announced late Wednesday. According to a series of tweets posted by the exchange’s customer support department,...

PHP is A-OK for Templating

4.2.2020
PHP templating often gets a bad rap for facilitating subpar code — but that doesn't have to be the case. Let’s look at how PHP projects can enforce a basic Model, View, Controller (MVC) structure without depending on a purpose-built templating engine. But first, a very brief PHP history lesson The...

Three High Profile Crypto Networks Face Reward Halvings This Spring

28.1.2020
This spring, three of the largest crypto networks, BTC, BCH, and BSV, will undergo their halvings around the same time for the first time in history. During the last halving in 2016, only one network existed, but now three protocols share the same consensus algorithm. Google Trends shows that...

Bitcoin History Part 23: The First BTC Escrow

9.1.2020
Before the emergence of crypto exchanges and trustless multi-sig, early bitcoiners saw the need for an escrow service – a mediator to act as a go-between for strangers transacting online. Given the panoply of options now available, it is strange to think that escrow was once provided by a...

Federal Reserve Considers Creating a Separate Entity for Cash Injections

8.1.2020
While American President Donald Trump wages war with Iran, the U.S. Federal Reserve has continued to inject fresh capital into the hands of private banks by giving them $100 billion in overnight and 14-day repos on Tuesday. The same day, Rabobank strategist Philip Marey predicted the central bank...

ISIKC – Where Deep Traditions Meet Innovation

6.1.2020
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. ISIKLAR HOLDING, a company with deep traditions and...

Why Nick Szabo Probably Isn’t Satoshi

2.1.2020
Search online for ‘possible creators of Bitcoin’ and Bit Gold creator Nick Szabo will always appear near the top of the list. His long history in the cypherpunk space, his writings on money, digital cash, and smart contracts, and some facts about his past have often been used to create...

China Takes Another Step Away From USD Hegemony

1.1.2020
The China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) announced that effective January 1, 2020, the system “will adjust weights for CFETS RMB Index,” decreasing the weighting of the USD for the second time in the currency basket’s history from 22.40% to 21.59%, and increasing the Euro...

The Many Facts Pointing to Ian Grigg Being Satoshi

20.12.2019
Financial cryptographer. Cypherpunk. Inventor of Ricardian contracts and early utilizer of triple-entry accounting systems, which would later be exemplified in Bitcoin. Ian Grigg may have claimed that Satoshi was a team effort and is now dead, only living on in bitcoiners everywhere, but some seem...

Bitcoin History Part 22: The New Wealthy Elite

19.12.2019
“I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen, even with a sum as small as 10 bitcoins … The world just isn’t going to be the same and we have been blessed as the pioneers.” When these remarks were made in June of 2011, they seemed hopeful to the point...

Print-Inspired Layout on the Web

18.12.2019
I always love seeing people get inspired by print design and trying to port it over to the web. There is a much deeper history of interesting print work to draw from, and still a ton of modern work happening that eclipses most digital design work today. The web is fully capable of bold, interesting...

Bitcoin Fails to Repeat the History it Created 2 Years Back; Dips to $6,500

18.12.2019
Bitcoin trades at $6,610.60—marking half of the highest price hit this year. The fun fact here is that exactly today, Bitcoin had hit $20,000 (all-time high) two years back in 2017 and currently, two years down the line, we have a moderate adoption of cryptocurrency as the price plummets. Take...

Indian State of Kerala to Produce 20,000 Blockchain Specialists in 2 Years

17.12.2019
Beijing’s sudden rush into blockchain development and digital currency hasn’t gone unnoticed. From America to Europe and back to Asia, governments have started thinking about this new racetrack in more serious terms. India has a history of tensions with China, although the countries...

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