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New $3 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill: Second Stimulus Checks Could Be Coming to Americans
13.5.2020
Americans could be getting their second stimulus checks as a new coronavirus relief bill has been introduced. It includes more direct payments of up to $6,000 per household. The new bill is expected to cost more than $3 trillion, making it the biggest emergency relief package in U.S. history....
Why Debt Can’t Buy More Growth, Feat. Jeff Booth
13.5.2020
A conversation with the “Price of Tomorrow” author on the key structural challenge looming over the global economy
New Stablecoin, Bitcoin Interest Account, Cherry on Blockchain + More News
13.5.2020
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Exchanges news
Japanese crypto exchange GMO Coin is on the verge of releasing a stablecoin, reports...
This Week in Crypto: A Data Perspective
13.5.2020
Powered by In this new format, IntoTheBlock will be looking at key weekly developments in the crypto space from aContinue Reading
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Chinese Central Bank Calls for Yet More Blockchain Adoption
13.5.2020
The Chinese central bank’s technology leads have called for more blockchain adoption in the bank’s own operations and the wider, government-owned financial sector.
Per Sina, the People's Bank of China (PBoC)’s Financial Technology Committee held its first meeting of the year this week, with...
Ongoing Improvements to Combat Volume Inflation
13.5.2020
Hi CoinMarketCap users, Over the past few weeks, we have been actively soliciting and reviewing feedback from our community (suchContinue Reading
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$2 Billion Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Industry Set to ‘Grow Significantly’
13.5.2020
Cryptocurrency hedge funds’ assets under management have been increasing significantly, rising to more than $2 billion at the end of last year, according to a recent survey. The crypto hedge fund industry is expected to “grow significantly” along with the price of bitcoin. Hedge...
React Single File Components Are Here
13.5.2020
Shawn Wang is talking about RedwoodJS here:
… it is the first time React components are being expressed in a single file format with explicit conventions.
Which is the RedwoodJS idea of Cells. To me, it feels like a slightly cleaner version of how Apollo wants you to do it with useQuery....
Using CSS Masks to Create Jagged Edges
12.5.2020
I was working on a project that had this neat jagged edge along the bottom of a banner image.
Looking sharp… in more ways than one.
It’s something that made me think for a second and I learned something in the process! I thought I’d write up how I approached it so you can use it on your...
How We Future Now – Live With Kathleen Breitman, Caitlin Long and More From Consensus: Distributed
12.5.2020
From gaming and entertainment to the future of the banking industry, live interviews at the Consensus: Distributed virtual summit
Recent Episodes of ShopTalk Show
12.5.2020
There is a super cool new Podcast block for WordPress Gutenberg you use Jetpack (released in 8.5). I wanted to try it out, so below you’ll see recent episodes from ShopTalk Show. I’d tell you all about the recent episodes, except then this blog post wouldn’t age very well, because...
Why does writing matter in remote work?
12.5.2020
Talk to anyone who has an active blog and I bet they’ll tell you it’s been valuable to them. Maybe it’s opened doors. Maybe it’s got them a job. Maybe it’s got them a conference invite. Maybe they just like the thrill of knowing people have read and responded to...
Accepting Payments (including Recurring Payments) on WordPress.com
12.5.2020
I’m a fan of building websites with the least amount of technical debt and things you have to be responsible for as possible for what you wanna do. Sometimes you take on this debt on purpose because you have to, but when you don’t, please don’t ;).
Let’s say you need...
BitPay Onboards Client With 1M Customers, ECB Focuses On Retail CBDC + More News
12.5.2020
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Crypto adoption news
Major crypto payment processor BitPay announced the first large international furniture brand to go live...
Dealing With Stale Props and States in React’s Functional Components
12.5.2020
There’s one aspect of JavaScript that always has me pulling my hair: closures. I work with React a lot, and the overlap there is that they can sometimes be the cause of stale props and state. We’ll get into exactly what that means, but the trouble is that the data we use to build our UI can...
How I Put the Scroll Percentage in the Browser Title Bar
12.5.2020
Some nice trickery from Knut Melvær.
Ultimately the trick boils down to figuring out how far you’ve scrolled on the page and changing the title to show it, like:
document.title = `${percent}% ${post.title}`
Knut’s trick assumes React and installing an additional library. I’m sure...
Chainalysis Claims Mining Pools Holding More Bitcoin anticipating Bitcoin Price Surge Following The Halving
12.5.2020
New York based blockchain investigation software enterprise Chainalysis claimed on Monday that as per its analysis, mining pools are holding more Bitcoin for the last few months in anticipation of the price surge that is expected after the scheduled halving. In a Twitter thread, it claimed having...
CSS Animation Timelines: Building a Rube Goldberg Machine
12.5.2020
If you’re going to build a multi-step CSS animation or transition, you have a particular conundrum. The second step needs a delay that is equal to the duration of the first step. And the third step is equal to the duration of the first two steps, plus any delay in between. It gets more...
min(), max(), and clamp() are CSS magic!
12.5.2020
Nice video from Kevin Powell. Here are some notes, thoughts, and stuff I learned while watching it. Right when they came out, I was mostly obsessed with font-size usage, but they are just functions, so they can be used anywhere you’d use a number, like a length.
Sometimes pretty basic usage...
Michelle Phan and Ashton Kutcher Bet on Bitcoin Rewards + More News
11.5.2020
Michelle Phan. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/michellephan
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.
Investment news
Lolli, a bitcoin (BTC) rewards company, has today...