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Crypto Spring Brings Strong Profits to Next-Generation and Older Mining Rigs
16.5.2019
Over the last few weeks, cryptocurrency markets have been on a tear accumulating considerable gains following the notorious ‘crypto winter.’ Since the recent price hike this spring, mining digital assets with next-generation miners has allowed participants to secure significant gains...
Fidelity Investments Seeks Talent for Its Digital Assets Division
15.5.2019
Fidelity Digital Assets, the digital asset wing of Fidelity Investments, is looking fill nine new roles at the firm
A Deep Dive into Native Lazy-Loading for Images and Frames
15.5.2019
Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. Many of them, however, are never shown to a user because they're placed way below the fold.
What’s this thing about images being lazy, you ask? Lazy-loading...
ConsenSys-Backed Kaleido Launches B2B Tech Stack With ‘Plug-and-Play’ Features
15.5.2019
Kaleido has launched a B2B tech stack to help companies “reinvent their core payment systems and supply chains”
Our Value of Money Is Subjective But That Doesn’t Make It Meaningless
14.5.2019
In my last op-ed, I discussed how the value we place on items and goods is subjective based on Carl Menger’s Subjective Theory of Value and how these concepts apply to people’s perception of value with things like fiat, gold, and bitcoin. The post outlined the idea that money cannot...
How to Send Bitcoin Cash via Text Messages to Anyone With a Mobile Phone
14.5.2019
Cointext allows you to send bitcoin cash (BCH) to anyone with a mobile phone in the regions supported by the service even if you don’t have access to the internet. On a global scale, the availability of cheap devices can help many more people use cryptocurrency for payments via SMS text...
Russian Prosecutors Fail to Block Crypto Website
13.5.2019
A court case in Russia has signaled a change in the attitude authorities have towards the cryptocurrency space, at least on first glance. An online portal helping traders find the best exchange options for their digital assets will be allowed to restore normal operations. That’s after...
Crypto Wallet Secures $50 Million Insurance for Customer Crypto Assets
11.5.2019
Crypto securities company Curv has insured up to $50 million in customer assets through a new partnership with Munich Re
New Ernst & Young Report Reveals Assets and Debts of Now-Defunct QuadrigaCX
10.5.2019
A new report from audit firm EY outlines the assets and debts of Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX and its subsidiaries
QuadrigaCX Has $21 Million in Assets and Owes $160 Million: EY Report
10.5.2019
QuadrigaCX owes creditors $160 million, but only has $21 million in assets, according to court-appointed monitor EY's latest report
As Bitcoin Continues Its Climb, Top Crypto Assets Tease Breakouts
10.5.2019
Bitcoin's ascent continues, with prices hitting new multi-month highs earlier today, and other top cryptos like litecoin may soon join the party
Renewed Market Growth Has Sparked Demand for Crypto-Backed Loans
10.5.2019
With cryptocurrency markets back to life, hodling sounds like a smart strategy once again. Cryptocurrency owners are now more likely to pledge coins to borrow fiat if they need it, rather than sell their appreciating digital assets. The spread of crypto-backed loans could also be a good indicator...
Preload, prefetch and other link tags
24.4.2019
Ivan Akulov has collected a whole bunch of information and know-how on making things load a bit more quickly with preload and prefetch. That's great in and of itself, but he also points to something new to me – the as attribute:
<link rel="preload" href="/style.css" as="style"...
Who has the fastest website in F1?
2.4.2019
Jake Archibald looks at the websites of Formula One race teams and rates their performance, carefully examining their images and digging into the waterfall of assets for each site:
Trying to use a site while on poor connectivity is massively frustrating, so anything sites can do to make it less...
A historical look at lowercase defaultstatus
1.4.2019
Browsers, thank heavens, take backward compatibility seriously.
Ancient websites generally work just fine on modern browsers. There is a way higher chance that a website is broken because of problems with hosting, missing or altered assets, or server changes than there is with changes in...
Write Your First Service Worker in 5 Minutes
18.3.2019
What is a service worker? A service worker is a little file that will allow you to cache files and other assets on a user’s machine. How is this different from server-side caching? Because the assets are stored on a user’s machine, rather than a server, there is no need to go across...
How to Change the WordPress Media Upload Directory
2.1.2019
One thing I’ve always missed about the “old” way of web development was the simplicity of FTP. No deploy scripts, no fuss: simple drag and drop of files and the files are there. I’ve used FTP for assets on this blog for over a decade but I’m finally ready to be lazy...
itty.bitty
9.7.2018
Mark this down as one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a good long while. Nicholas Jitkoff has made a tool called itty.bitty that creates websites with all of the assets being contained within their own link. You can create a website without any HTML or CSS resources at all because it’s...
These Crypto Assets Are Pushing the Market Back Toward $500 Billion
4.5.2018
The crypto markets continued to build on April's gains this week, with alternative cryptocurrencies like nano, VeChain and bytecoin leading the way
Crypto Market Sheds Billions as Top 100 Assets Down
22.12.2017
It's a down day for the cryptocurrency markets, with gains in sight, data reveals