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Crypto and Fintech Investor Ribbit Capital Files to Raise $350M for ‘Blank Check’ IPO
26.8.2020
JPMorgan is the sole bookrunner. Full story to come
Optimize Images with a GitHub Action
20.8.2020
I was playing with GitHub Actions the other day. Such a nice tool! Short story: you can have it run code for you, like run your build processes, tests, and deployments. But it’s just configuration files that can run whatever you need. There is a whole marketplace of Actions wanting to do work...
Capital One Files Patent for Cryptocurrency Market AI Prediction System
18.8.2020
Major U.S. financial services company Capital One has filed a new patent application for a cryptocurrency analysis and trading system that will attempt to predict crypto market trends and generate trading decisions using artificial intelligence (AI). Capital One’s Cryptocurrency AI System...
Amid US Postal Service ‘Crisis’ USPS Files Patent for Blockchain Mail-in Voting Scheme
18.8.2020
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is falling apart at the seams and many Americans are blaming the Trump administration. The USPS may have to deal with the U.S. election ballot process, as mail-in votes may be the dominant practice thanks to the coronavirus. Amid the American public’s...
Capital One Files Patent for AI That Would Slice, Dice Social Media to Find Crypto Trading Picks
17.8.2020
“It would be impossible for human traders to track,” crypto's 24/7 informational onslaught on their own, Capital One said
US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent Following Trump Cuts
14.8.2020
Is it enough to meaningfully resist election fraud?
Grayscale Ethereum Trust Files To Become An SEC Reporting Company
6.8.2020
Grayscale Ethereum Trust files to become an SEC reporting company amidst the Ethereum bull run
Warp SVG Online
6.8.2020
The warping is certainly the cool part here. Some fancy math literally transforms the path data to do the warping. But the UX detail work here is just as nice. Scrolling the page zooms in and out via a transform: scale() on the SVG wrapper (clever!). Likewise, holding the spacebar lets you...
Huawei Files for a Storage-Related Blockchain Patent
27.7.2020
Huawei strengthens its blockchain adoption campaign by applying for new storage-based Blockchain patents
US Government Files Fresh Charges Against PlexCoin ICO Organizers
27.7.2020
Having only settled with the SEC last year, the PlexCoin founders now face a fresh round of charges from the Department of Justice
3iq Files IPO for Ether Fund to Trade on Canadian Stock Exchange
27.7.2020
3iq has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of its Ether Fund in Canada. The Canadian fund manager’s Bitcoin Fund is already trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The Ether Fund has been preliminarily green-lighted by a Canadian regulator. Ether Fund’s IPO Canadian investment...
A Font-Like SVG Icon System for Vue
24.7.2020
Managing a custom collection of icons in a Vue app can be challenging at times. An icon font is easy to use, but for customization, you have to rely on third-party font generators, and merge conflicts can be painful to resolve since fonts are binary files.
Using SVG files instead can eliminate...
Using Flexbox and text ellipsis together
22.7.2020
You can truncate a single line of text with an ellipsis (…) fairly easily with text-overflow and a few friends. But, as you might expect, that truncation happens at the end of the line of text. What if you want to truncate content in the middle?
Leonardo Faria details good use cases for this...
Fueling the Cannabis Industry: US Crypto Lending Service Files for Regulated Token Sale
10.7.2020
Chicago-based lending firm Ceres recently filed for a request to conduct a Reg. A sale in order to get approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Ceres wants to launch a token that will be used for garnering equity, while the company also wants to launch a coin that can...
How to delete all node_modules directories from your computer
8.7.2020
Nice tip from Chris Ferdinandi:
My node_modules directories contained 50mb of stuff on the small side, and over 200mb of files in some cases. Over a few dozen projects, that really adds up!
Two dozen projects with 200 MB worth of node_modules? That’s nearly 5 GB of space for...
Block.One Co-Founder Brock Pierce Files to Run for US President
7.7.2020
Brock Pierce has formally filed to run for President of the United States
Nvidia Files Motion to Dismiss $1B Class Action Over Crypto GPU Sales
1.7.2020
Nvidia has filed for the dismissal of a complaint alleging it fraudulently attributed over $1 billion in sales to gaming markets amid the 2017 crypto bubble
Wirecard $2 Billion Scandal: Firm Files for Insolvency, Ex-CEO Arrested, User Funds Safe
25.6.2020
Scandal-hit crypto card issuer Wirecard AG, a firm that has filed for insolvency because of its missing $2.1 billion – but customer funds appear to be safe, for now. The news comes just two days after former chief executive officer Markus Braun was arrested by German police on allegations...
Crypto.com’s Card Issuer Wirecard Files for Bankruptcy
25.6.2020
Before Wirecard's insolvency filing, Crypto.com and TenX said customer funds were unaffected by their partner's accounting scandal
Troubled Debit Card Issuer Wirecard Files for Insolvency
25.6.2020
Wirecard is now filing for insolvency as a sudden $2.1 billion hole in its balance sheet wipes out 32% of the supposed assets owned by the company