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Fidelity’s Crypto Branch to Increase Staff by 70%, President Sees ‘More Interest in Ether’
13.7.2021
According to Tom Jessop, president of Fidelity Digital Assets, the company is planning to increase staff by 70% because demand for cryptocurrencies continues to keep the firm busy. Fidelity Digital Assets, the subsidiary of the wealth management firm Fidelity Investments Inc., has also seen...
NFT Weekly Roundup: Bluezelle’s Innovative Solution, Rob Prior’s Live Stream, Ap’s Iconic NFT Collection, and the Br8ve Auction
28.5.2021
While cryptocurrencies experienced their fair share of ups and downs over the week, nothing is holding back the stratospheric rise of NFTs. As another busy week comes to a close, a lot has unfolded in the world of NFTs. Here’s a quick rundown of the top events of this week. Bluzelle Revamps...
Skeptics Keep Tether Busy Despite Latest Transparency Round
18.5.2021
After revealing their reserves breakdown, Tether, the issuer of the most popular stablecoin, tether (USDT), still needs to respond to skeptics that remain unconvinced by the latest numbers and what might be behind them.
This time, despite the settlement with the New York Attorney General’s Office...
NFT Weekly Roundup: Polygon’s Sustainable Minting, Oscars NFTs, And, Yes, Poop Emoji NFTs
23.4.2021
As another busy week comes to an end, the NFT universe witnessed many new developments. From Polygon teaming up with leading brands to unique new collectibles up for grabs – here are the top NFT news bytes of the week. Polygon to Offer A Sustainable Way of Minting NFTs NFT creation platform...
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11.1.2021
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Converting and Optimizing Images From the Command Line
21.12.2020
Images take up to 50% of the total size of an average web page. And if images are not optimized, users end up downloading extra bytes. And if they’re downloading extra bytes, the site not only takes that much more time to load, but users are using more data, both of which can be resolved, at least...
Bitcoin Rally Supported by More Busy Miners and Lower Fees
13.11.2020
As bitcoin (BTC) rallied, with the trading volume rising as well, the transaction fees moved in the opposite direction as miners turned more of their machines on.
Bitcoin has made quite a move upwards since the beginning of November, with analysts predicting further volatility, but also...
How Hacker News Crushed David Walsh Blog
28.10.2020
Earlier this month, David’s heartfelt posting about leaving Mozilla made the front page of Hacker News. Traffic increased by 800% to his already-busy website, which slowed and eventually failed under the pressure. Request Metrics monitors performance and uptime for David’s blog, and our metrics...
Pack Your Bitcoin: Busy South Korean Beach Says ‘Yes’ to Crypto
29.7.2020
Haeundae Beach. Holidaymakers at Haeundae, South Korea’s busiest and most popular beach, will be able to pay for services such as sun umbrella and inflatable tube rentals in bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH) and other tokens next month.
Haeundae Beach, in South Korea’s second city Busan, is a...
Market Wrap: What Twitter Hack? Traders Stay Busy Buying Bitcoin at $9,000
16.7.2020
Bitcoin suffered a short period of selling in early trading but has bounced back, seemingly immune to Wednesday's Twitter hack
With Token Uptick and Israeli Election Work, It’s Been a Busy Year for Bancor’s Founders
11.6.2020
Bancor, the decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol, has seen a number of interesting developments in the first half of 2020
Need Self-regulatory Code of Practice, but Exchanges Busy in USDT Manipulation: Crypto Kanoon
17.3.2020
One of the biggest crypto influencers in India, the pseudonymous Crypto Kanoon tweeted on Tuesday that after the industry won the battle against the RBI on March 04, there was a need for self-regulatory code of practice. However, he said, the exchanges were busy in customer acquisition strategies...
Regulatory Roundup: New US Crypto Tax Bill, Central Banks Join Forces on Digital Currencies
23.1.2020
In this roundup, we cover an exceptionally busy week for crypto regulations around the globe. We start our coverage with the U.S. Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2020, actions by the SEC, Ripple’s lawsuit, India’s supreme court hearings, Australia green-lighting a bitcoin retail...
A Scandal in Bohemia
13.1.2020
I love that Paravel is so busy doing so much cool stuff they literally just forgot that they built this and are just now releasing it.
It's a Sherlock Holmes story, but designed to be more interesting and immersive (even audio!) than just words-on-a-screen.
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Coinbase Wallet Removing Mobile Dapp Browser to Comply With Apple
30.12.2019
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for bad news in crypto, with Youtube’s removal of hundreds of videos, Google Play’s removal of Metamask, and now Coinbase mobile wallet users facing an announcement their app is losing its dapp browser, reportedly due to restrictive policy...
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7.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 7 October, 2019 Move “Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues." -Matshona Dhliwayo Welcome back, CoinMarketCap crew! Hope everyone had a restful weekend is is ready to take on the new week! Alright, grab […]
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7.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 7 October, 2019 Move “Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues." -Matshona Dhliwayo Welcome back, CoinMarketCap crew! Hope everyone had a restful weekend is is ready to take on the new week! Alright, grab […]
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7.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 7 October, 2019 “Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues." -Matshona Dhliwayo Ongoing consolidation Over the weekend, total market capitalization gradually slipped from ~$220 billion to ~$214 billion, and 24-hour volume averaged ~$45...
Get to it
7.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 7 October, 2019 “Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues." -Matshona Dhliwayo Ongoing consolidation Over the weekend, total market capitalization gradually slipped from ~$220 billion to ~$214 billion, and 24-hour volume averaged ~$45...
“Off The Main Thread”
10.9.2019
JavaScript is what they call "single-threaded." As Brian Barbour puts it:
This means it has one call stack and one memory heap.
We all feel a symptom of that regularly in the form of performance jank and non-interactivity on elements or entire sites. If we give JavaScript lots of jobs and it gets...