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War of Words Over zkEVMs Might Portend Long Struggle to Tech Maturity
22.2.2023
As Polygon and Matter Labs race to bring their zkEVMs to market, both will need to make compromises in the name of security
This AI Can Make Endless Super Mario Bros. Levels With Just A Few Words
16.2.2023
The technology we casually refer to as “artificial intelligence” is suddenly everywhere. It’s used to “create” art, dialogue and voice, text, even video games! It’s nigh impossible to escape as we enter a dystopian future in which generative technology seeks to threaten entire livelihoods...
Moving Backgrounds
9.2.2023
We often think of background images as texture or something that provides contrast for legible content — in other words, not really content. If it was content, you’d probably reach for an <img> anyway, accessibility and whatnot.
But there are …
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The Double Emphasis Thing
6.2.2023
I used to have this boss who loved, loved, loved, loved to emphasize words. This was way back before we used a WYSIWYG editors and I’d have to handcode that crap.
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The Double Emphasis Thing originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Crypto Terms Become Dirty Words as Bear Market Lingers
11.1.2023
Companies are taking steps to mask their industry ties during a time of scandals and losses
Amid the FTX Confusion, Whistleblower Edward Snowden Says ‘Custodial Exchanges Were a Mistake’
9.11.2022
Whistleblower and former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, has been very vocal about the crypto economy in recent times. After publishing a copy of Bitcoin’s white paper on Twitter on the document’s 14th birthday, Snowden had some words with Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto....
Custodia Bank founder Caitlin Long has some strong words about the Fed and BNY Mellon
12.10.2022
The head of the Wyoming-based bank was taken aback when BNY Mellon was approved to provide crypto custody services; her bank’s master account application is still not processed
HistoryDAO’s Mission to Take History From the Victors and Give It to the Masses
29.9.2022
Humans have sought to preserve memories since prehistoric times, etching images into cave walls and tying knots into a crudely fashioned cord. Tribes and clans gave birth to language that could preserve the past in words, and words found their way into print forms, thereby conceiving history....
Charles Hoskinson and ETH dev get into a war of words post-Vasil upgrade
26.9.2022
Hoskinson called Ethereum Merge a flawed PoS implementation, claiming custodial staking would create issues for the network in the long run
The Words We Use In Bitcoin: Words, Language, Terminology, and Linguistic Attacks
3.7.2022
Gigi is a Bitcoin educator, author of '21 Lessons', and software engineer.
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It can’t be said often enough: Bitcoin is confusing. However, it’s not complicated like a Rube Goldberg machine is complicated. It’s just very foreign and thus very misunderstood—it is a completely new thing....
Words With Friends Co-Founder Raises $46M for Web 3 Game Studio
14.6.2022
Paradigm led the round for The Wildcard Alliance, the new Web 3 subsidiary of game studio Playful Studios
Useful Tools for Visualizing Databases on a Budget
13.6.2022
A diagram is a graphical representation of information that depicts the structure, relationship, or operation of anything. Diagrams enable your audience to visually grasp hidden information and engage with them in ways that words alone cannot. Depending on the type …
Useful Tools...
Kim Dotcom on the ‘Great Reset,’ Strong Russian Ruble Puzzles Economists, and More — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review
12.6.2022
This week, entrepreneur and activist Kim Dotcom said the “U.S. is beyond bankrupt,” and minced no words about a potential “controlled demolition of global markets.” Meanwhile, American economists are interested in the ruble’s strong performance in spite...
French Institution Bans English Words Like 'eSports' And 'Streaming'
2.6.2022
For centuries now, the Académie Française has basically overseen the entire French language, being responsible for everything from grammar to publishing French dictionaries to acting as the “official authority on the language”. An important part of that role in recent decades has been to ward...
FTX's Bankman-Fried Accused of Misleading Public Over Bitcoin as FT Picks His Words 'Selectively'
16.5.2022
Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and founder of major crypto exchange FTX, and investor in Solana (SOL), was accused of misleading the public as he omitted important facts while bashing Bitcoin (BTC). The CEO claims that his quotes were chosen "very selectively" by a mainstream media outlet, known...
Global Impacts and Solutions on the Economy From Covid-19: A Conversation with Dr. Yasam Ayavefe
20.4.2022
Across the world, each one of us has felt the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. From critical health issues to joblessness, our world is in an unprecedented economic crisis globally. While most of us felt all we could do was quarantine ourselves, we did not have the answers as to why...
‘7 words is not a crypto policy': Aussie opposition under fire as election looms
8.4.2022
As a national election looms, focus is shifting towards crypto policy, which critics say the Opposition party is lacking
RChain: 3 Lessons Web 3.0 Can’t Afford to Ignore
4.4.2022
There’s a tendency in the tech world to toss out old tech and go all-in on a new replacement. “Oh, don’t use that. That’s the old thing! Use the new thing instead.” This advice is best suited to those who adapt quickly to technological change—in other...
Meta Brings Metaverse-Like 3D Ads to Facebook and Instagram
29.3.2022
Meta is bringing interactive 3D ads to Facebook and Instagram feeds, inspired by the metaverse pivot the company has begun to execute since its name change. This is possible due to a new integration in Meta’s AR (Augmented Reality) publishing library with a development from a company called...
Farmville Creator Zynga to Launch NFT Games, Says Gaming Firm’s Blockchain Lead
11.2.2022
American social game developer Zynga has plans to launch non-fungible token (NFT) games in the near future. Zynga’s vice president of blockchain, ​​Matt Wolf, told the press that the company is looking at the cycle right now and “figuring out where we want to jump...