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New Blockchain Platform Aims to Help Countries Issue CBDCs More Easily
13.8.2020
Blockchain company Apollo Fintech touts its new system as tonic for national digital currency headaches
Oracle-Mania & the Binance Effect
13.8.2020
Powered by Every week, IntoTheBlock brings you an on-chain analysis of top news stories in the crypto space. Leveraging blockchain’sContinue Reading
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Chapter 2: Browsers
12.8.2020
Previously in web history…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee creates the technologies behind the web — HTML, HTTP, and the URL which blend hypertext with the Internet — with a small team at CERN. He convinces the higher-ups in the organizations to put the web in the public domain so anyone can...
Chainlink Flips Bitcoin Cash; Nigeria Leads in Crypto Usage + More News
12.8.2020
Practical Use Cases for JavaScript’s closest() Method
12.8.2020
Have you ever had the problem of finding the parent of a DOM node in JavaScript, but aren’t sure how many levels you have to traverse up to get to it? Let’s look at this HTML for instance:
<div data-id="123"<buttonClick me</button</div
That’s pretty straightforward, right? Say...
CoinMarketCap Earn: Gain Crypto Through Education
12.8.2020
CoinMarketCap has launched CoinMarketCap Earn, a place for crypto enthusiasts to learn more about a cryptoasset while getting crypto rewardsContinue Reading
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CoinMarketCap Earn: Gain Crypto Through Education
12.8.2020
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Blockchain Alchemy For All; BitPay Gets Closer To Coinbase + More News
11.8.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Blockchain news
Blockchain developer platform Alchemy said it has ended its closed beta and is now available for all developers to use....
Halfmoon: A Bootstrap Alternative with Dark Mode Built In
11.8.2020
I recently launched the first production version of Halfmoon, a front-end framework that I have been building for the last few months. This is a short introductory post about what the framework is, and why I decided to build it.
The elevator pitch
Halfmoon is a front-end framework with a...
Register for An Event Apart’s Front-End Focus Online Conference
11.8.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
An Event Apart has been doing these single-day online “Online together” conferences. You can check out the last couple, which are available on-demand (buy it, watch it when you want) for a limited time:
Online Together (available through December...
DEX Aggregator 1inch Raises $2.8M From Binance Labs, Galaxy Digital and More
11.8.2020
Launched by software engineers from Porsche and NEAR Protocol, the startup has raised $2.8 million in a funding round led by Binance Labs
Australian Woman Jailed for Theft of More Than 100,000 XRP
11.8.2020
The 25-year-old received an over two-year sentence for the 2018 theft of XRP worth around $300,000 at the time
Chainlink Competitor Band Token Grows 300% in 7 Days Setting New ATH
11.8.2020
BAND, the native token of the Band Protocol, has grown by more 300% in just seven days. At the at time of writing, the token traded at $14.50 against the August 3 trading price of $3.86. On August 10, the token also touched a new high of $17.78 while the 24 hours traded volumes were […]
The...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Climbs Again, Miners Selling More BTC
11.8.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty is getting closer to the 17 T zone, as it went up again - meaning, Bitcoin miners' job just got slightly more difficult, while they're spending more of their coins.
Bitcoin mining difficulty, or the measure of how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, went up...
System UIcons
11.8.2020
This is a great collection of icons by Corey Ginnivan that’s both free and with no attribution required when you use them. The style is super simple. Each icon looks like older versions of the icons from macOS to me because they’re cute but not too cute.
Also? The icon picker UI is slick and looks...
Facebook Dives Deeper Into Payments + More News
10.8.2020
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Payments news
Social media giant Facebook created Facebook Financial (called F2 internally), a new group to pursue payments and commerce...
Don’t Wait! Mock the API
10.8.2020
Today we have a loose coupling between the front end and the back end of web applications. They are usually developed by separate teams, and keeping those teams and the technology in sync is not easy. To solve part of this problem, we can “fake” the API server that the back end tech...
zerodivs.com
10.8.2020
Pretty neat little website from Joan Perals, inspired by stuff like Lynn’s A Single Div. With multiple hard-stop background-image gradients, you don’t need extra HTML elements to draw shapes — you can draw as many shapes as you want on a single element. There is even a stacking order...
Defi’s Rise Is Inevitable, and Fusion Is Driving This Evolution of Conventional Finance
10.8.2020
Four billion dollars This is the total amount of funds locked in “Defi”, growing from just one billion USD in 6 weeks. “Defi” has had a tortuous path ever since its inception, but now the concept of “Defi” is gaining more attention. So, what exactly...
Chainlink Price Jumped More Than 45% in 48 Hours and 440% in Twelve Months
10.8.2020
Chainlink’s token surged more than 45% from $9.53 to $14.09 between Friday and Sunday data shows. The surge saw chainlink’s (LINK) market capitalization shooting to $5.12 billion which makes it the sixth most capitalized token, just ahead of cardano (ADA). At the time of writing...