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Chinese Authority Freezes Thousands of Cryptocurrency Traders’ Bank Accounts
9.6.2020
Several thousands of bank accounts belonging to cryptocurrency traders have reportedly been frozen by Chinese police as a result of an extensive crackdown on illicit activities. Frozen accounts are not necessarily involved in wrongdoing and can be unfrozen if the authority finds no evidence...
Over 2,000 Coca-Cola Machines Now Accept Bitcoin in Australia and New Zealand
9.6.2020
Over 2,000 Coca-Cola vending machines in Australia and New Zealand have started accepting bitcoin, thanks to an agreement between Coca-Cola Amatil and Centrapay. Coca-Cola Amatil is a major bottler and distributor in Asia Pacific, supporting 140 brands. Buy Coke With Bitcoin The bitcoin payment...
Making My Netlify Build Run Sass
9.6.2020
Let’s say you wanted to build a site with Eleventy as the generator. Popular choice these days! Eleventy doesn’t have some particularly blessed way of preprocessing your CSS, if that’s something you want to do. There are a variety of ways to do it and perhaps that freedom is part...
5 Myths About Jamstack
9.6.2020
Jamstack isn’t necessarily new. The term was officially coined in 2016, but the technologies and architecture it describes have been around well before that. Jamstack has received a massive dose of attention recently, with articles about it appearing in major sites and publications and...
Leaked Pentagon War Game Shows Gen Z Using Bitcoin to Battle the Corrupt State
8.6.2020
The United States has been creating military simulations, otherwise known as ‘war games,’ for years now. In fact, the Pentagon and various professional analysts created a permanent war gaming facility for simulations. This week a report indicates that Pentagon officials have purportedly...
Bitcoin’s Forks Have Trounced Bitcoin This Year
8.6.2020
Bitcoin has underperformed its three major fork currencies by as much as triple-digit percentage points so far this year
COVID-19 Will Have a Long Term Impact on Health, Causing Problems like Pulmonary Hypertension and Emphysema
8.6.2020
The Coronavirus pandemic is arguably the biggest health emergency since the turn of the millennium. Within six months, the virus has infected over 7 million, claiming the lives of over 406,000 victims in at least 213 countries. However, a recent tweet by a professor at the University of Edinburgh...
How to Get All Custom Properties on a Page in JavaScript
8.6.2020
We can use JavaScript to get the value of a CSS custom property. Robin wrote up a detailed explanation about this in Get a CSS Custom Property Value with JavaScript. To review, let’s say we’ve declared a single custom property on the HTML element:
html {
--color-accent: #00eb9b;
}
In JavaScript...
Pablo Escobar’s Descendants Claim to Have Known Satoshi Nakamoto
8.6.2020
Reports stemming from the financial columnist, Greg Thomson and the family of Pablo Escobar, claim the Escobar’s know the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Allegedly, the notorious Escobar’s say that Satoshi Nakamoto was once known as a man named “Yasutaka Nakamoto.” On June...
Trump Predicts US Economy to Recover by 2021 — Fed Chair, Economists Disagree
7.6.2020
President Donald Trump has predicted that the US economy will recover by 2021, citing new jobs data released by the Labor Department which contains a “misclassification error.” Officials say the numbers are artificially low, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and several...
Bitcoin Trader: Google Helps Scam Crypto Trading App Look Legit in Reviews
6.6.2020
Bitcoin Trader has been heavily promoting itself as the best and safest automated cryptocurrency trading app that can help people earn $1,300 a day. Numerous fake reviews and scam checks on Bitcoin Trader are highly ranked by Google, making this scam appear legitimate. News.Bitcoin.com investigates...
US Regulators Have Double Standards When It Comes to Bitcoin
6.6.2020
VanEck's Gabor Gurbacs said U.S. regulators have not treated Bitcoin fairly in their exchange-traded fund denials
Carl Watner: The Tragedy of Political Government
6.6.2020
“What is tragic about political government?” you might ask. Let us return to that question once we have examined the nature of political government and the State. In order to distinguish between government and other institutions in society we must look at the ways human behavior can...
Bonus Army, Occupiers, 2020 Uprising: Bitcoin’s Peaceful Protest Is Pure Civil Disobedience
6.6.2020
For twelve days straight, American citizens and a number of countries around the world have been protesting the oligarchs and police brutality. The restlessness from the uprising has slowed down some, but continues in various cities across the nation. On June 3, 2020, a reporter from Los Angeles...
A Digital Art Project Might Have an Answer to the Woes of Staking Centralization
6.6.2020
Drawing inspiration from Reddit's r/place, AstroCanvas is an experiment in boosting staking participation – without appealing to financial incentives
Proposed Digital Dollar and Digital Yuan Have a Lot in Common – Report
6.6.2020
Chinese media analysts believe that there are a number of key similarities between the Digital Dollar Project and the central People’s Bank of China (PBoC)’s digital yuan – but they say that by the time the American project irons out wrinkles, it may be too late to beat Beijing to the punch.
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Patoshi Researcher Says “Altruistic” Satoshi Will Never Spend His 1.1M Bitcoin
6.6.2020
Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto will never spend his “1.1 million bitcoins” because he is altruistic, Patoshi Pattern researcher Sergio Demian Lerner has said. The Patoshi Pattern exploits privacy flaws of an early protocol, v.01, to identify blocks possibly minded by Satoshi Nakamoto....
The Mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto Allegedly Leveraged a Russian Proxy for Communications
5.6.2020
4,171 days ago in 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto invoked the Bitcoin network after sharing the white paper with people since Halloween 2008. Just recently, it has been discovered that Nakamoto leveraged a Russian proxy to obfuscate his whereabouts and the inventor used the proxy back in January 2009....
A/B Testing Instant.Page With Netlify and Speedcurve
5.6.2020
Instant.Page does one special thing to make sites faster: it preloads the next page when it’s pretty sure you’re going to click a link (either by hovering over 65ms or mousedown on desktop, or touchstart on mobile), so when you do complete the click (probably a few hundred milliseconds...
Both NXT and Algorand Claim to Have Developed First Proof-of-Stake Chain
4.6.2020
Algorand claims in its promotional materials to be the first PoS blockchain, but NXT lead developer says his project was first