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Beam to Make Its First Move Towards Private DeFi With June 2020 Hard Fork
24.6.2020
Beam updates details on its June 28 hard fork, laying out foundations for the firm’s future DeFi offering
The Hard Truth About Trading — Can the Average Joe Succeed?
21.6.2020
The ins and outs of trading, as explained by Bill Hermann, Matthew Ficke, and David Carman
Patternico
20.6.2020
I remember searching for tutorials for making seamless patterns in Photoshop¹ all the time back in the day.
It’s fun to see this little website for building repeating patterns as its one job. It does everything you’d expect: pick a background, drag some decorations onto it and position...
Creative Background Patterns Using Gradients, CSS Shapes, and Even Emojis
10.6.2020
You can create stripes in CSS. That’s all I thought about in terms of CSS background patterns for a long time. There’s nothing wrong with stripes; stripes are cool. They can be customized into wide and narrow bands, criss-crossed into a checked pattern, and played with in other ways using the idea...
Hard Fork Sets Stage for Ethereum Classic’s Second Major Departure From Ethereum
3.6.2020
Ethereum Classic has largely followed Ethereum in lockstep. But as the larger chain goes toward Proof-of-Stake, ETC is sticking with Proof-of-Work
Chrome 83 Form Element Styles
3.6.2020
There have been some aesthetic changes to what form elements look like as of Chrome 83. Anything with gradient colorization is gone (notably the extra-shiny <meter stuff). The consistency across the board is nice, particularly between inputs and textareas. Not a big fan of the new <select...
Ethereum Classic Follows Its Sibling’s Footsteps With Phoenix Hard Fork
1.6.2020
Ethereum Classic performed its scheduled upgrade to bring Ethereum’s Istanbul features to the classic chain, making the two protocols fully compatible with each other
Feel Hard to Trade on BitMEX? Bexplus is an Alternative for Beginners & Pro Traders
30.5.2020
BitMEX, the Hong Kong-based crypto exchange, is the first platform that provided 100x leverage perpetual contracts in the cryptocurrency industry. However, it shut down to U.S. citizens, as well as UK traders early this year. In addition, it often shows constant overloads and cannot be stably...
Building Your First Serverless Service With AWS Lambda Functions
29.5.2020
Many developers are at least marginally familiar with AWS Lambda functions. They’re reasonably straightforward to set up, but the vast AWS landscape can make it hard to see the big picture. With so many different pieces it can be daunting, and frustratingly hard to see how they fit seamlessly into...
NGRAVE Hard Wallet Hits 450% of Crowdfunding Goal Within Two Days
29.5.2020
A hardware wallet’s IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign reached 450% of its target funding amount within two days of launch
7 Reasons to Use Illustrations on Your Website (And Examples of How to Do It)
25.5.2020
Are you having a hard time finding photos for your website? The solution might be a simple one: use illustrations. This post will show you how and when they make sense to use.
7 Reasons to Use Illustrations on Your Website (And Examples of How to Do It) was written by Bogdan Sandu and published...
Binance CEO Says Steem Too Centralized but Exchange Must Support Controversial Hard Fork
25.5.2020
Binance is forced to "technically" support last week's hard fork of the Steem blockchain, according to the exchange's CEO, Changpeng Zhao
CZ Believes Steem Users Should Launch (Another) Counter-Fork
23.5.2020
While Binance will support the Steem hard fork to freeze $6M in user funds, CZ offered support to additional forks
Steem Soft Forks to Sanction Mysterious 'Community321' Account
22.5.2020
Steem has completed a soft fork which sanctions the account that went rogue and sent 23.6 million STEEM to Bittrex in protest of a recent hard fork
Caught up in Steem Squabble, Bittrex to Return Tokens Diverted in Hard Fork
21.5.2020
Bittrex says it will return all confiscated steem tokens that got "rescued" soon after yesterday's hard fork
Mystery Account ‘Rescues’ $6M of STEEM From Hard Fork Seizure
21.5.2020
Steem’s latest hard fork has been completed but almost $6 million of STEEM due for seizure was ‘rescued’ in a mysterious transaction to Bittrex exchange
Steem Hard Fork Confiscates $6.3M, Community Immediately Takes it Back
20.5.2020
The Steem hard fork nabbed the tokens of dissenting community members. Soon after, though, the tokens were said to have been diverted
Avoid Heavy Babel Transformations by (Sometimes) Not Writing Modern JavaScript
20.5.2020
It’s hard to imagine writing production-ready JavaScript without a tool like Babel. It’s been an undisputed game-changer in making modern code accessible to a wide range of users. With this challenge largely out of the way, there’s not much holding us back from really leaning into...
Court Rules on What Japanese Exchanges Must Do with Hard Fork Tokens
20.5.2020
A ruling made by a Tokyo District Court – and unearthed by the CEO of Japanese crypto exchange bitFlyer – appears to suggest that exchanges are not legally obliged to transfer any cryptoassets generated by hard forks to their customers.
Per a series of tweets from bitFlyer CEO Yuzo Kano, a Tokyo...
Steem to Freeze Another $5M in Tokens Associated With Hive Supporters
20.5.2020
Steem will freeze another $5 million in funds associated with the accounts of Hive supporters