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The Politicization of Money: Crypto as a Safeguard Against Economic Propaganda
27.6.2019
Money has come a long way since its origins. From cowry shells to crypto, transferable, divisible, and economically sound means of exchange have been adopted by market actors everywhere. Modern history has brought us to a dangerous place, however, a cultural climate where politics and bad economics...
Reduced Motion Picture Technique, Take Two
21.6.2019
Did you see that neat technique for using the <picture> element with <source media=""> to serve an animated image (or not) based on a prefers-reduced-motion media query?
After we shared that in our newsletter, we got an interesting reply from Michael Gale:
What about folks who love...
Monero Price Analysis: Crossed the $100 Mark, Though, Went Down by a Place in Cryptocurrency Rankings
20.6.2019
Ledger Nano X support is now available on Monero Chain. At present a CLI version is available for download, GUI support will be released soon. Additionally, the CLI wallet has Tor and I2P integration for better anonymity and security. Current Statistics of XMR coin (On June 20, at UTC 11:37):...
EOS Price Analysis: EOS Price Dribbles, Expected Recovery To Take Place By The End Of The Day
19.6.2019
EOS coin price started falling from yesterday. The bearish trend continued even today, but currently, the coin is showing some recovery symptoms. The coin may come out of the drop by the end of the day. The marketers have high hopes with the coin. Holding its ranking on the 6th position in...
PR: Legislators Support V20 Summit in Response to New FATF Rules
18.6.2019
Legislators have shown their support for the V20 Summit which is set to take place alongside the G20 Leaders Summit in Osaka, Japan, 28 & 29 June 2019. The event will convene G20 representatives, national blockchain associations, the world’s leading Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs)...
Venezuela Issues 50,000 Bolivar Bill Amid Persistent Hyperinflation
14.6.2019
Venezuelans are used to their currency costing less than the paper it’s printed on. Economic misfortunes and political upheaval place their country at the bottom of all inflation charts, year after year. The latest incarnation of the national fiat, Bolívar Soberano, has succumbed to...
The 20th Annual eBay Power Lunch With Warren Buffett Will Take Place In San Francisco
13.6.2019
The 20th Annual eBay Power Lunch with Warren Buffett will take place in San Francisco, California. The famous charity lunch is organized every year by eBay and the Glide Foundation initiative and supported by the investment tycoon. Buffett’s wife was an active member of Glide, and since her demise...
Cardano Price Analysis: Jumped a Place Up in Cryptocurrency Ranking Amidst the Slow Market
10.6.2019
Cardano (ADA) Foundation is recently invited in Tokyo, Japan for discussing the future aspect of blockchain technology. The foundation is strongly working toward extending the market reach of ADA. ADA Coin Current Statistics: As on June 10, at UTC 07:15, Cardano (ADA) price was at $0.081734. At...
Prevent Page Scrolling When a Modal is Open
3.6.2019
Please stop me if you've heard this one before. You open a modal, scroll through it, close it, and wind up somewhere else on the page than you were when you opened the modal.
That's because modals are elements on a page just like any other. It may stay in place (assuming that's what it's meant...
Implementing Private Variables In JavaScript
1.6.2019
JavaScript (or ECMAScript) is the programming language that powers the web. Created in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, it’s found its place as a widely-used and versatile technology. Despite its success, it’s been met with its fair share of criticism, especially for idiosyncrasies. Things like objects...
South Korea Finds Itself in a Tough Spot Following Huawei Ban
29.5.2019
The banning of Huawei by the United States has sparked off a meltdown in the markets, but it has also made life uncomfortable for a range of countries which fear diplomatic awkwardness due to the issue. South Korea is one such nation, and currently, the Asian country finds itself in a tough spot...
Registrations are open for the inaugural PICANTE TECH Conference Europe taking place on 3-4 September in Prague
28.5.2019
PICANTE Media and Events, a fast-growing global news and publishing service portal has officially opened the registrations for the inaugural PICANTE Tech Conference Europe, which will be held in Prague between 3-4 September 2019. PICANTE Tech Conference Europe is a B2B event which aims to touch...
Bitcoin.com’s Local Bitcoin Cash Marketplace Gathers Thousands of Pre-Launch Signups
27.5.2019
On June 4, Bitcoin.com is gearing up to launch our peer-to-peer trading platform Local.Bitcoin.com. After the exchange was announced, the public were invited to create their accounts and place orders. So far the exchange has seen a huge swarm of interest, with over 4,500 signups to date. Also read:...
China’s Latest Crypto Rankings: EOS Retains Top Spot, Bitcoin in 12th Place
27.5.2019
China updated its cryptocurrency rankings on May 23, with EOS retaining the top spot and Bitcoin moving up three places
Meet Blockchain Poker, The Smart And Simple Way To Gamble With Your BTC And BCH
27.5.2019
Online gambling has picked up hugely in the last couple of years, and blockchain has had its share of success with it too. Blockchain-based gambling has solved many issues with traditional online gambling, including lag timings, biased gameplay, and a threat to online transactions. Blockchain...
Everyone’s Talking About Security Tokens But No One’s Trading Them
21.5.2019
There’s a party happening right now and everyone’s invited. The music’s playing, the fridge is loaded and the bathtub’s full of ice. All the ingredients for the sickest soiree are in place. There’s just one problem: the guests have yet to arrive. Welcome to the world...
Footnotes That Work in RSS Readers
17.5.2019
Feedbin is the RSS reader I'm using at the moment. I was reading one of Harry's blog posts on it the other day, and I noticed a nice little interactive touch right inside Feedbin. There was a button-looking element with the number one which, as it turned out, was a footnote. I hovered over it,...
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...
A Few Functional Uses for Intersection Observer to Know When an Element is in View
8.5.2019
You might not know this, but JavaScript has stealthily accumulated quite a number of observers in recent times, and Intersection Observer is a part of that arsenal. Observers are objects that spot something in real-time — like birdwatchers going to their favorite place to sit and wait for the birds...
The Place of UX
7.5.2019
Every time "UX" comes out of my mouth or is typed by my fingers, I think, "did I just use that term correctly?" It feels like such a big and loaded term these days, that perhaps the way I use it only contributes to the confusion. Ryan Singer frames that problem well:
Debates continue to rage about...