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BitPay Achieves Service Organization Control (SOC 2) Compliance Review
2.10.2019
Major Blockchain payments provider BitPay has proclaimed that it has passed the Service Organization Control Review (SOC 2). The review was conducted successfully by the Aprio, which is among the top 100 CPA led advisory firms. The tech audit firm assures maximum confidentiality and data privacy...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Git Hooks
30.9.2019
The merits of Git as a version control system are difficult to contest, but while Git will do a superb job in keeping track of the commits you and your teammates have made to a repository, it will not, in itself, guarantee the quality of those commits. Git will not stop you from committing code...
People Will Choose A Currency That Government Can’t Control: Pompliano
27.9.2019
All money will be digital, and the competition will be between monetary policies: Pompliano
Panic at 137 Bank Branches as RBI Limits Withdrawals to ₹1,000
25.9.2019
The Reserve Bank of India has imposed regulatory restrictions on a cooperative bank with 137 branches across India, including limiting customer withdrawals to a total of 1,000 rupees (approximately $14) per account for six months. Police personnel had to be deployed to control angry customers...
Get Geographic Information from an IP Address for Free
24.9.2019
Say you need to know what country someone visiting your website is from, because you have an internationalized site and display different things based on that country. You could ask the user. You might want to have that functionality anyway to make sure your visitors have control, but surely they...
Total Surveillance Coin Will Be a Dystopia if Controlled by Facebook or Government
10.9.2019
Digital currency provides unprecedented abilities to spy on and control what people do, and having that power in the hands of a few people is very dangerous. The Big Tech monopolies of Silicon Valley are building a future where your every action is monitored, and giving Facebook control over what...
Catalonia Announces a Decentralized ID System the Gov’t Won’t Control
9.9.2019
The Catalan government announced IdentiCAT, a decentralized identity system
Korean Crypto Exchanges Plan to Adopt FATF Rules for Regulatory Control
4.9.2019
Cryptocurrencies are fast emerging as a secured and potential substitute to fiat currency. The high risks associated with the digital currency have put it under the scrutiny of the financial experts. Recently, the chief of South Korea’s reputed cryptocurrency exchange Upbit said that the leading...
Reusable Popovers to Add a Little Pop
26.8.2019
A popover is a transient view that shows up on top of a content on the screen when a user clicks on a control button or within a defined area. For example, clicking on an info icon on a specific list item to get the item details. Typically, a popover includes an arrow pointing to the location from...
Doing What You Want With Your Money Is a Fundamental Right
24.8.2019
Since the birth of Bitcoin, crusaders fighting for the separation of money and state discovered a new payment tool that bypasses the nation state’s control over the monetary system. For over ten years now, lots of people have been using digital currencies to hide from prying eyes...
People Who Want to Control Their Capital Buy Bitcoin, Says Circle CEO
20.8.2019
Circle CEO is confident that Bitcoin is becoming an increasingly attractive safe haven for investors
Mercurial Tips
19.8.2019
While most of the world seems to be using git for version control, Mozilla continues to use Mercurial (hg) to manage the Firefox source code. As a git and GitHub lover, it took me a while to get used to Mercurial. I don’t consider myself a hg expert but I know enough to complete...
War For Control Over Money: How Can Governments Respond to Crypto?
17.8.2019
Governments have never really been big fans of crypto. Sure, the odd finance minister and president has praised blockchain technology or even cryptocurrencies themselves on the rare occasion, but generally the overall mood has been one of suspicion and even outright hostility.
And now, with...
Argentina’s Peso Collapse Shows Governments Shouldn’t Control Money
15.8.2019
Whenever bitcoin experiences a sharp drop or volatility, mainstream media analysts jump to declare that cryptocurrency isn’t stable enough to be considered money. The double-digit crash of the Argentine peso in one day, simply due to an election in the country, can be said to prove the same...
More Control or More Freedom? SEC to Run BTC, ETH, XRP nodes; Inviting Contractors
1.8.2019
Contractors for running Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) nodes are required. This notice was announced by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) The SEC wants to run its own nodes on Bitcoin and Ethereum. The chosen contractors will need to run the nodes on behalf...
Ripple Price Analysis: Bulls Take Control, Ripple (XRP) Climbs Above $0.32
27.7.2019
Ripple reclaims its price position above $0.32 over a day XRP price seems to have decent support at $0.30 The coin is correcting down from $0.3275, after three major surges Ripple is yet to step out of the selling pressure XRP has been trading upwards since yesterday against the U.S Dollar...
WDRL — Edition 269: Shaping up, Doing well while doing good, Single toggle buttons and the Illusion of control
19.7.2019
Hey,
it’s been already four weeks since the last edition. I’ve been on vacation for two weeks and around that, as many of you probably can relate, work is crazy. Before going off you have to finish things and when you come back, you’re overwhelmed by what happend during your absence. And...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Price Largely in Control of Bears, Trades Even Below $9500
17.7.2019
Bitcoin price breaks even below $9400, hovers around $9100 BTC continues to decrease while tracing a bearish trendline BTC faces Selling pressure, while the price may still continue to decrease In the last 4 hours, Bitcoin saw a decline of 4.25% This seems to be a bad week for Bitcoin as the coin...
Global Crypto War Is Heating up – Iran Next in Line With Its Own Gold-Backed Coin
17.7.2019
Control of the U.S. dollar and the global financial system that depends on it gives the American government an incredibly powerful tool in shaping international affairs. As such, it is not surprising that its geopolitical rivals around the world will try to exploit the invention of cryptocurrency...
JP Morgan Chase Ship Busted: Cocaine, Banks and the Failed Drug War
11.7.2019
A ship seized by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency in June carrying over 15,000 kilos of cocaine has now been tied to JP Morgan Chase’s asset management unit. Officially the company does not exercise any operational control of the vessel, but some serious questions are raised when...