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What makes a site JAMstack?
21.1.2020
I admit I didn’t know the ins and outs of what the Jamstack is until recently, despite having heard the term so frequently. I think I’m not alone in this. It’s an elusive term — how is it different from what came before, especially considering it shares so many similarities? Thankfully, Divya...
Fairspin Casino Players Won Over 40,000 ETH
15.1.2020
Blockchain casino Fairspin paid out more than 40,000 ETH to players in its first full year of operation.
The casino was founded in late 2018 under the name of Fairplay. A year later, it was rebranded into Fairspin to emphasize the casino’s key distinctive feature – each spin in every game...
White House Market Wants to Become the Darknet’s Toughest DNM
13.1.2020
White House Market (WHM) is an ultra-secure darknet market (DNM). It disallows Javascript, enforces PGP throughout, admins key sign every 72 hours, and only accepts monero (XMR). It might be the darknet’s most private market. But do its vendors deliver? News.Bitcoin.com dusted down some...
Why every website wants you to accept its cookies
6.1.2020
I'm probably in the minority on this, but I've never ever built one of those "This site uses cookies, here's some kind of explanation of why, and please click this OK button to accept that" bars that feels like they are on half of the internet.
Emily Stewart:
Most of us just tediously click “yes”...
5 More Bearish Candlestick Patterns Every Bitcoin Trader Must Know
4.1.2020
Trading can be difficult but familiarizing oneself with these five bearish candlestick patterns should improve your analysis and investing skills
Adding Dynamic And Async Functionality To JAMstack Sites
2.1.2020
Jason Lengstorf:
Here’s an incomplete list of things that I’ve repeatedly heard people claim the JAMstack can’t handle that it definitely can:
Load data asynchronously
Handle processing files, such as manipulating images
Read from and write to a database
Handle user authentication and protect...
Validate CSP from Command Line
2.1.2020
The content security policy spec has been an amazing front-end security tool to help prevent XSS and other types of attacks. I’d go as far to say that every site should implement as specific CSP as possible. If you aren’t familiar with CSPs, here’s a quick example:...
PSA: It’s That Time to Update the Copyright Year on Your Site
1.1.2020
Every year about this time I see articles going around reminding people how to update the copyright on their websites. Usually somewhere in the footer. You know, a line like:
© Copyright 2007-2019 CSS-Tricks
I am very absolutely not a lawyer, but this is how I understand it:
You don't actually...
The UN must embrace blockchain
30.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 30 December, 2019 “I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.” - Sonam Kapoor In today's newsletter, we will be covering: the Treadway Commission issuing blockchain […]
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The UN must embrace blockchain
30.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 30 December, 2019 “I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.” - Sonam Kapoor In today's newsletter, we will be covering: the Treadway Commission issuing blockchain […]
The post The...
Goals For 2020
30.12.2019
Every new year brings about a sense of optimism that the next 365 can bring about big, positive changes in different phases of life. That’s no exception for me and this blog. I did pretty well with last year’s goals, so I thought I’d push myself again with a new set of goals. Be...
Peter Schiff Says Every Asset Class But BTC is Rallying as 2019 Ends
29.12.2019
Peter Schiff makes a sarcastic remark about Bitcoin, pointing out that it is the only asset class that is not rallying by the end of 2019
5 More Bullish Candlestick Patterns Every Bitcoin Trader Must Know
29.12.2019
Trading can be difficult but familiarizing oneself with these 5 bullish candlestick patterns should make conducting analysis and investing a tad bit easier
A Bitcoin War Is Brewing Over KYC
25.12.2019
Every year, Bitcoin faces a new foe intent on crippling it by undermining the foundations it was built upon. From mining cartels to developer disputes, Bitcoin has faced a barrage of threats over the past decade. When it’s not internecine conflict taking its toll, it’s external forces...
Snowball: The Effort to Bring Privacy to Every Bitcoin Wallet
19.12.2019
A new Bluetooth-based tech could snowball into a way to create truly private transactions, its creator says
Ciphertrace Says Banks Unknowingly Process $2 Billion in Crypto per Year
17.12.2019
According to the blockchain analysis firm Ciphertrace, major U.S. banks process roughly $2 billion in digital currency transactions that go undetected every year. Ciphertrace disclosed a slew of financial institutions have not deployed the right KYC/AML infrastructure to detect unregistered...
“Link In Bio” is a slow knife
16.12.2019
Anil Dash:
If Instagram users could post links willy-nilly, they might even be able to connect directly to their users, getting their email addresses or finding other ways to communicate with them. Links represent a threat to closed systems.
On CodePen, we have a TextExpander snippet we use...
5 Bearish Candlestick Patterns Every Bitcoin Trader Must Know
14.12.2019
Here are 5 simple bearish Japanese candlestick patterns that every trader must know
5 Bullish Candlestick Patterns Every Bitcoin, Crypto Trader Must Know
11.12.2019
Here are 5 simple bullish Japanese candlestick patterns that every trader must know
How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
9.12.2019
Dylan Paulus:
Facebook actually hides 'dummy' DOM nodes between the 'Sponsored' text. These values are entirely random characters, with a random number of DOM nodes between them. Invisible characters. At this point our CSS ad blocker is completely broken. There is no way for us to possibly code...