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Billion-Dollar Wealth Manager Skybridge Capital Plans to Launch a Bitcoin Fund
22.12.2020
In mid-November, a filing registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had shown that the investment firm Skybridge Capital may invest in crypto assets like bitcoin. Over a month later, Skybridge Capital filed another registration form with the U.S. SEC (Form D) as it plans...
Coinbase Allegedly Taps Goldman Sachs to Lead IPO, FTX Exchange May Launch Pre-IPO Futures
20.12.2020
Following the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange’s initial public offering (IPO) Form S-1 draft registration, reports note that Goldman Sachs will likely lead the IPO. Moreover, the digital currency trading platform FTX is rumored to be launching a Coinbase futures market before...
Coinbase Files Paperwork With SEC to Launch Public Offering
18.12.2020
U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase had confidentially filed a draft registration for a public offering to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Coinbase Sent Draft Registration to the US SEC On December 17, 2020, the exchange made the announcement on its blog, stating that the firm...
IRS tax form question leaves US crypto users confused and concerned
17.12.2020
This year’s Form 1040 requires all U.S. taxpayers to answer a question about whether they traded or acquired “virtual currency” during the year
It’s Always Year Zero
16.12.2020
In the short term, opinions about technology often follow a compressed form of Laver’s Law:
Everything just before me was completely broken.
Everything that comes after me is completely unnecessary.
Everything I use right now is perfectly fine; stop changing things.
We tend to judge things based...
Happier HTML5 form validation in Vue
3.12.2020
It’s kind of neat that we can do input:invalid {} in CSS to style an input when it’s in an invalid state. Yet, used exactly like that, the UX is pretty bad. Say you have <input type="text" required>. That’s immediately invalid before the user has done anything....
Introducing MoonDeFi, a New Part of Decentralized Finance
29.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. Centralized exchanges have been the backbone of the cryptocurrency market for years. They offer fast settlement times, high trading volume, and continually improving liquidity. However, there’s a parallel world being built in the form of trustless protocols. Decentralized...
A Complete State Machine Made With HTML Checkboxes and CSS
27.11.2020
State machines are typically expressed on the web in JavaScript and often through the popular XState library. But the concept of a state machine is adaptable to just about any language, including, amazingly, HTML and CSS. In this article, we’re going to do exactly that. I recently built a website...
Coinbase Ditches US Customer Tax Form That Set Off False Alarms at IRS
24.11.2020
Instead of the troublesome 1099-K form, Coinbase will send the 1099-MISC to users of its interest-bearing products. Regular traders may not receive any forms at all
Use a Submit Button Outside of !
24.11.2020
Have you ever felt like you’ve been a professional developer or designer forever, and somehow not known something basic, and borderline hate yourself? That’s me with a trick that was introduced to me by Miguel Piedrafita: 🔥 You can submit forms from a button outside of the form...
Mixing Colors in Pure CSS
16.11.2020
Red + Blue = Purple… right?
Is there some way to express that in CSS? Well, not easily. There is a proposal draft for a color-mix function and some degree of interest from Chrome, but it doesn’t seem right around the corner. It would be nice to have native CSS color mixing, as it would give...
Parsing Markdown into an Automated Table of Contents
13.11.2020
A table of contents is a list of links that allows you to quickly jump to specific sections of content on the same page. It benefits long-form content because it shows the user a handy overview of what content there is with a convenient way to get there.
This tutorial will show you how to parse...
Venezuela to Incorporate Bitcoin and Litecoin Wallets into National Remittances Platform
2.11.2020
Venezuela says it will incorporate bitcoin and litecoin wallets to its Patria’s Cryptocurrency Remittance Platform. In an update, authorities in the country say this move will enable Venezuelan citizens to formally receive remittances in cryptocurrency form. Many citizens of hyperinflation...
Core Web Vital Tooling
26.10.2020
I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. When I first got into caring about performance, it was all: reduce requests! cache things! Make stuff smaller! And while those are all very related to web performance, they are abstractly related. Actual web performance to users are things...
Focus management and inert
19.10.2020
Many forms of assistive technology use keyboard navigation to understand and take action on screen content. One way of navigating is via the Tab key. You may already be familiar with this way of navigating if you use it to quickly jump from input to input on a form without having to reach for your...
How to Prevent Pasting into an Input
19.10.2020
Every once in a while I get to a website that doesn’t allow me to paste into a form input. In most cases it’s something to do with login credentials (username and or password) and auth codes. So how are they preventing me from pasting information? It’s as easy as you’d...
Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust Attains SEC Reporting Company Status
13.10.2020
Grayscale Investments says the registration statement on Form 10 that it filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on behalf of the Ethereum Trust has become effective. This means Ethereum Trust is now an official SEC reporting company and the second digital currency investment...
Italian Payments Giants Merging to Form New Entity That Will Dominate Local Market
5.10.2020
The new group will reportedly have an estimated 70% share of the Italian market
Form design
15.9.2020
A very digestable guide from Geri Reid on building forms. Not the code, but the design and UX principles that should guide the code.
Working on a design system for a bank has taught [me] a lot about forms. I’ve watched testing in our labs. I’ve worked alongside experts from specialist...
Jetpack 8.9: Take Donations, Capture Email Subscribers, AMP integration, and More
8.9.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Jetpack 8.9 shipped on September 1 and it shows why the plugin continues to be the premier way to take a WordPress site from good to holy smokes! Several new features are packed into the release, but a few really stand out.
Take donations with a new block
The first...