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Smokescreens and Mirrors: How Does a Country Do an ICO? They Call It QE
22.8.2019
Financial regulators all around the world have been cracking down hard on ICOs for promising more than they can deliver. At the same time governments and central banks are pulling off far worse scams, such as QE, wiping out the savings of everyone that depends on them. To hide this fact they...
VeChain Price Analysis: VET Prices Rise By 0.002%, Next Target Can Be $0.0043
22.8.2019
VET coin was priced at $0.004367 yesterday post which the price of the coin began to fall and reached as low as $0.0042056 at 12:48 UTC yesterday. VeChain price rose for some period before falling again. Today, from 12:32 UTC, the coin has managed to make an upward rise and has reached $0.004293....
Electroneum Price Analysis: Can ETN Maintain Its Efficiency And Reach 0.00000039 By Tomorrow?
22.8.2019
ETN was priced at 0.00000036 BTC yesterday at about 00:35 UTC. There was a sharp rise, and the coin slowly started to rise upwards. There were a couple of falls, despite that the coin still managed to reach an all-time high of 0.00000039 BTC at 00:17 today. However, it was not able to maintain...
Bitcoin Maximalists Embrace Ethereum After Receiving an Offer They Can’t Refuse
22.8.2019
A group of hardcore bitcoin maximalists have heroically overcome their hatred for Ethereum after receiving ERC20 shares in crypto exchange INX worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The staunch BTC loyalists, led by Blockstream CTO Samson Mow, have agreed to support a project built on Ethereum...
You Can Now Earn Bitcoin Rewards for Postmates Purchases
21.8.2019
Postmates has become the latest partner for Lolli's bitcoin rewards service
Other Ways to SPAs
21.8.2019
That rhymed lolz.
I mentioned on a podcast the other day that I sorta think WordPress should ship with Turbolinks. It's a rather simple premise:
Build a server-rendered site.
Turbolinks intercepts clicks on same-origin links.
It uses AJAX for the HTML of the new page and replaces the current page...
Australia’s Biggest Bank Says Its ‘BioTokens’ Can Help the Environment
21.8.2019
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia develops tokens meant to enable investments in sustainable development
You Can Now Purchase DAI on Crypto.com at its True Value at Zero Fees
21.8.2019
The payment and crypto platform- Crypto.com has announced today about the listing of the USD-pegged stablecoin- Dai (DAI) to its native application. The pre-existing coin and altcoins include- Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Ripple’s XRP, TrueUSD (TUSD), PAXOS (PAX), Crypto.com’s native...
Getting Netlify Large Media Going
20.8.2019
I just did this the other day so I figured I'd blog it up. There is a thing called Git Large File Storage (Git LFS). Here's the entire point of it: it keeps large files out of your repo directly. Say you have 500MB of images on your site and they kinda need to be in the repo so you can work with...
IOTA Price Analysis: IOTA Prices may Fall Marginally; can Reach $0.23 by Tomorrow
20.8.2019
Let us compare the price of the coin since the past one month. IOTA was priced at $0.33 on 20-July-19 at 22:00 UTC. However, post this date, it gradually started to show a declining movement. It fell to $0.26 on 28-July-19 at 22:30 UTC. The coin did manage to bounce well and started to rise...
Can Binance Or Libra Dominate The Crypto Space?
20.8.2019
Ever since Libra was revealed in June this year, it has shaken the world, and even those who laughed at crypto were forced to sit down and take notice. Since then, there has been a debate in the mainstream that Facebook’s brainchild would affect US dominance over global politics and trade. For this...
Let’s Build a JAMstack E-Commerce Store with Netlify Functions
20.8.2019
A lot of people are confused about what JAMstack is. The acronym stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup, but truly, JAMstack doesn’t have to include all three. What defines JAMstack is that it’s served without web servers. If you consider the history of computing, this type of abstraction isn’t...
Lazy load embedded YouTube videos
20.8.2019
This is a very clever idea via Arthur Corenzan. Rather than use the default YouTube embed, which adds a crapload of resources to a page whether the user plays the video or not, use the little tiny placeholder webpage that is just an image you can click that is linked to the YouTube embed.
It still...
Employees Can Also Own Stakes in Vision Fund 2 as SoftBank Decides to Lend Them $20 Billion For The Purpose
19.8.2019
As everyone knows, SoftBank is possibly the most influential entity in the world when it comes to investing large sums of money on promising startups all over the world. The company has invested billions in some of the most valuable in the world and it did so through its $100 billion investment...
Win BCH with Bitcoin.com’s Cash Games Stars Leaderboard
19.8.2019
There’s a new promotion happening for Bitcoin.com Cash Games, with new winners each week, and first place taking home $200 in bitcoin cash. It can be said that crypto and gaming are made for each other, thanks to low fees, easy access, and privacy. Now things just got even better, with...
Can you view print stylesheets applied directly in the browser?
19.8.2019
Yep.
Let's take a look at how to do it in different browsers. Although note the date of this blog post. This stuff tends to change over time, so if anything here is wrong, let us know and we can update it.
In Firefox...
It's a little button in DevTools. So easy!
Open DevTools...
Fiat Lite vs. Freedom Maximalist: The Two Types of Bitcoiner
19.8.2019
As regulation continues growing exponentially for cryptocurrencies worldwide, a chasm is yawning ever deeper between supporters. On the one hand, many yearn for massive adoption and clear regulations so they can get on with their trading, and get on with their lives – not to mention...
Data URIs
18.8.2019
We’re all familiar with traditional URI protocols like https, http, ftp, and file, but data URIs have become a large part of our online strategy. We can use them to display images, the Mac camera and webcams, and more. But what if we simply want to use a data URI to convey basic data? Typing...
Bitcoin History Part 15: Silk Road Is Born
18.8.2019
Silk Road launched in February 2011 as the darknet’s first bitcoin-based marketplace. Within four months, it would be the darknet’s most notorious site whose reputation extended all the way to the U.S. Senate. The origins of the drugs marketplace can be traced back further, however,...
War For Control Over Money: How Can Governments Respond to Crypto?
17.8.2019
Governments have never really been big fans of crypto. Sure, the odd finance minister and president has praised blockchain technology or even cryptocurrencies themselves on the rare occasion, but generally the overall mood has been one of suspicion and even outright hostility.
And now, with...