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Tether Created ‘Largest Bubble in Human History’ Claims Lawsuit Against Bitfinex

9.10.2019
A common attack against Tether in the crypto ecosystem is that the stablecoin isn’t really backed one-to-one by the U.S. dollar. We might soon get to know if these concerns are substantial, as the matter is now going to court. A new lawsuit against the operators of USDT accuses them...

Bitcoin History Part 18: The First Bitcoin Wallet

6.10.2019
Bitcoin users today are blessed with a panoply of feature-rich software and hardware wallets. When Bitcoin launched, however, there were no wallets. It took Satoshi Nakamoto to engineer the first desktop client, and his creation proved surprisingly resilient, serving the community faithfully...

Unshackled

3.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 3 October, 2019 Stay free “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” – Khalil Gibran Happy Thursday, folks! Time for your daily dose of crypto news! ???? Today in history (2333BC), Dangun […] The post Unshackled appeared...

Unshackled

Bitcoin History Part 17: That Time Mt. Gox Destroyed 2,609 BTC

21.9.2019
Technically speaking, it’s impossible to destroy bitcoins. But it is possible to send coins to an unspendable address, rendering them redundant to all intents and purposes. In October 2011, that’s exactly what Mark Karpeles did when he consigned 2,609 BTC to eternal oblivion due to...

Fortune favors the bold

20.9.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 20 September, 2019 Be brave “The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave." – Ronald Reagan TGIF! Great job, CoinMarketCap family! That's another week down. ???? Today in history (1848), […] The post Fortune...

Web Developer Search History

18.9.2019
Sophie Koonin blogged "Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer," which was a fascinating look into the mind of a web developer and what they need to look up during day-to-day work. We all joke that we just Google stuff (or StackOverflow stuff) we don't know off the...

(Why) Some HTML is “optional”

16.9.2019
Remy Sharp digs into the history of the web and describes why the <p> tag doesn’t need to be closed like this: <p>Paragraphs don’t need to be closed <p>Pretty weird, huh? Remy writes: Pre-DOM, pre-browsers, the world's first browser was being written by Sir...

A Short History of the World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pools

15.9.2019
Mining pools grow and shrink, and rise and fall altogether. Today there are more extinct mining pools than there are active ones. The hashpower of the survivors secures hundreds of PoW crypto networks, from major coins such as BTC and BCH to obscure altcoins such as monero classic...

History Favors the Bulls as Bitcoin Trades Sideways at $10K

12.9.2019
Bitcoin's price rally has stalled in the last 10 weeks, but the bullish case remains intact with prices well above historically strong price support

Privacy Network Elixxir Invites Smartphone Users to Test Private Messaging

11.9.2019
In an age where Google, Facebook and the NSA are known to be harvesting as much as our communications as they can, many people are concerned that online privacy now only exists in the history books. One project trying to address this is the metadata-shredding platform Elixxir, led by cypherpunk...

Roger Ver Shares His Story in New Video Series

10.9.2019
As someone who was there from virtually the start, Roger Ver has seen and done it all in Bitcoin. A tireless evangelist for Bitcoin since long before it was cool, Ver remains a vocal proponent of the benefits of peer-to-peer cash and its power to effect positive change in the world. Every day this...

Venezuelans Fighting Economic Hardship Discover Crypto’s True Potential

6.9.2019
For quite some time now, Venezuela has been suffering from a political crisis and a collapsing economy. Venezuelans dealing with rampant inflation continue to see their purchasing power decline. After witnessing one of the worst economic disasters in modern history, 4 million citizens have...

Reid Hoffman’s New ‘Hamilton’-Inspired Crypto Rap Video Is Straight Fire

5.9.2019
The LinkedIn co-founder teamed up with notable YouTubers to drop a battle rap between Alexander Hamilton and Satoshi Nakamoto. Who wins?

What’s Being Built – and What’s Not – on 2019’s Smart Contract Blockchains

30.8.2019
Has anyone checked in with EOS lately, to see how it’s doing? How about Tezos – any signs of life there? In mid 2017, two of the largest token sales in history birthed two smart contracting platforms that promised to topple Ethereum and usher in an era of fast and low-cost value...

Roger Ver alleges Theymos behind the deletion of Bitcoin History

30.8.2019
The cryptocurrency space has its own share of controversies that keep on popping up every now and then. The latest one is revolving around Theymos, who is the administrator of Bitcointalk and Bitcoin.org. Besides, Theymos is also a Bitcoin moderator on Reddit. There is no denying the fact that...

Bitcoin History Part 16: The First Mt. Gox Hack

25.8.2019
No one remembers the first Mt. Gox hack. It was a small sum, even by 2011’s standards, and the exchange reimbursed all users. The incident was to prove significant, however, for it set in motion a string of attacks on other bitcoin platforms that began the very next day. By the time the dust...

Nonprofit Launches Blockchain Platform for Credit History in Sierra Leone

22.8.2019
The nonprofit Kiva and the government of Sierra Leone have launched a blockchain-based credit history service

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...

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,...