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Petro for Petrol, Karpeles' Guilt, Cotten's Ponzi, Frozen Bitmain + More News
12.6.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Crypto adoption news
The Venezuelan government says that 15% of fuel payments at petrol stations were made in petro (PTR) in...
Striking a Balance Between Native and Custom Select Elements
12.6.2020
Here’s the plan! We’re going to build a styled select element. Not just the outside, but the inside too. Total styling control. Plus we’re going to make it accessible. We’re not going to try to replicate everything that the browser does by default with a native <select> element. We’re going...
Learn Z-Index Using a Visualization Tool
12.6.2020
There are some neat interactive demos in here from Thiru Manikandan. There are a couple of very tricky things with z-index that never fail to confuse. In addition to things like requiring positioning and source order, the trickiest are the stacking contexts and parent/child relationships. z-index...
Ethereum Transaction Fee Mystery Just Got More Mysterious
12.6.2020
Yet another abnormal ether transaction occurred on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain for the third time. Now, someone transferred ETH 3,221 (USD 762,990) with a somewhat lower transaction fee of ETH 2,310 (USD 544,028).
The transaction occurred on the block 10247265, on June 11, 12:14 PM UTC time....
Crypto Hedge Fund Managers: Ether More Like ‘Digital Tungsten’
12.6.2020
According to Exponential Investments crypto fund managers, Ether is digital tungsten to Bitcoin's gold
Blockchainsation, “…More Than a Conference” Will Be Held on October 23–25, 2020
12.6.2020
Blockchainsation is the biggest Blockchain and Cryptocurrency related event in the region. It is 3 days of fun, blockchain and crypto experts, networking, useful knowledge, relaxation, and much more in the heart of Slovenia. It will take place from 23rd–25th of October, 2020, in a beautiful city...
CUBE CSS
11.6.2020
A CSS methodology from Andy Bell:
The most important part of this methodology is the language itself: CSS. It’s key to note its existence in the name because some alternative approaches, such as BEM—which I have enjoyed for many years—can veer very far away from Cascading Style Sheets. I love CSS...
On Adding IDs to Headers
11.6.2020
Here’s a two-second review. If an element has an ID, you can link to it with natural browser behavior. It’s great if headings have them, because it’s often useful to link directly to a specific section of content.
<h3 id="step-2"Step 2</a
Should I be so inclined, I could...
Estonian Crypto Purge; BitPay Card; Three Arrows Hit Grayscale + More News
11.6.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Regulation news
Estonian regulators worried that crypto-related firms are using their local credentials to help commit fraud...
Three Arrows Capital Now Holds More Than 6% of Grayscale’s $3.6B Bitcoin Trust
11.6.2020
Three Arrows Capital now holds about 6.26% of the shares in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, or more than 20,000 bitcoins' worth
How to Reverse CSS Custom Counters
11.6.2020
I needed a numbered list of blog posts to be listed with the last/high first and going down from there. Like this:
5. Post Title
4. Post Title
3. Post Title
2. Post Title
1. Post Title
But the above is just text. I wanted to do this with a semantic <ol> element.
The easy way
This can...
Bolstering Privacy: Human Rights Foundation Donates $50K Toward Bitcoin Mixing Development
11.6.2020
On June 10, 2020, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) launched a fund that is dedicated to the development of tools that make the Bitcoin network “more private, decentralized, and resilient.” HRF’s initial gift of $50,000 will be given to the UK-based developer, Chris Belcher,...
CoinMarketCap Launches Chat
11.6.2020
As you may or may not have noticed, CoinMarketCap released a long-awaited logins function for its website this week. UsersContinue Reading
The post CoinMarketCap Launches Chat appeared first on CoinMarketCap Blog
Blockstack and Algorand Back ‘More Secure’ Smart Contract Language
11.6.2020
Algorand and Blockstack have launched a joint open-source project to support the development of a smart contract language
Altcoins Rally as Coinbase Explores More New Assets for Listing
11.6.2020
As Coinbase sticks to its promise to add more digital assets on its trading platform, several tokens saw a spike in their prices following an announcement that the exchange is “exploring the addition” of 18 new digital assets on its exchange.
In alphabetical order, the assets Coinbase said it...
With Arweave’s ‘Lazy’ Approach to Smart Contracts, Its Version of Web3 Does More
11.6.2020
Arweave, a blockchain network meant for the permanent storage of data, has released a completely new approach to smart contracts
Crypto Exchange Ranking Methods Still Contested as CMC Takes More Heat
10.6.2020
Experts say CoinMarketCap’s update is not good enough after the latest method tweak causes further controversy among the community
Ledger Adds Bitcoin Buying; Brave Fork; Ethereum Cashback + More News
10.6.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Adoption news
Major crypto hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger launched a crypto buying option on their Ledger Live application....
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...
CSS :is() and :where() are coming to browsers
10.6.2020
Šime Vidas with the lowdown on what these pseudo-selectors are and why they will be useful:
:is() is to reduce repetition¹ of parts of comma-separated selectors.
:where() is the same, but nothing inside it affects specificity. The example of wrapping :where(:not()) is really great, as now there...