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Government Hates Crypto Because It Empowers the People, Not Because It’s Used for Crime
10.9.2019
A recent article from MIT Technology Review has leveraged a somewhat sensationalist headline to stir up fear about bitcoin and crypto. The article, written about a “hidden” government weapon to be deployed against Bitcoin, references September 3 senate subcommittee testimony...
“Off The Main Thread”
10.9.2019
JavaScript is what they call "single-threaded." As Brian Barbour puts it:
This means it has one call stack and one memory heap.
We all feel a symptom of that regularly in the form of performance jank and non-interactivity on elements or entire sites. If we give JavaScript lots of jobs and it gets...
How to Not Minify Source with webpack
10.9.2019
The webpack JavaScript utility has taken over the modern JavaScript landscape, so much so that it’s hard to be a JavaScript developer and not use it. JavaScript build utilities are the point where they do best practices implicitly, like minify code, caching, and more. I was recently debugging...
Report: Libra Stablecoin Tied to Major Currencies, Maybe Not Yuan
10.9.2019
Facebook has reportedly provided the U.S. Senate with details regarding the backing reserves for its Libra stablecoin
Huobi Confirms That USD 1B Transaction Did Not Include Their Own BTC
9.9.2019
Source: iStock/D-Keine
The recent transfer of more than 94,500 bitcoins, worth USD 1 billion at the time, sent crypto twitter into a theorizing frenzy, trying to figure out who could be behind this and why. We now know that cryptocurrency exchange Huobi’s funds are not a part of it.
As previously...
The Fed Chair Jerome Powell Commented That the Consumers Are Not ‘Clamoring For Central Bank Backed Cryptocurrencies’
8.9.2019
Addressing a forum sponsored by the Swiss Institute of International Studies, in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sept. 6, the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell answered questions about the issue of cryptocurrencies. He stated that the central bank is not “actively considering” minting...
Electroneum Price Takes a Steep Drop; Not Many Expectations from the Day
7.9.2019
Electroneum price is reflecting a bearish trend on the intraday chart. The traders might experience a boring day ahead for ETN. The crypto market has opened today with a bearish trend. Almost all the coins are in the bearish zone. Electroneum (ETN) is also behaving same. The coin was seen taking...
Fed Chair Says Agency Monitoring Crypto But Not Developing Its Own
7.9.2019
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell argued that central banks will not likely release their own digital currency in the near term
Keene New Hampshire Is Not Only a Libertarian Enclave – It’s Also a Crypto Mecca
6.9.2019
Over the last few months, there’s been a lot of attention directed toward destinations like Slovenia, North Queensland, Japan, and Venezuela which capture the largest number of bitcoin cash merchants worldwide. Another region that’s seen a massive influx of BCH adoption is Keene,...
EOS Price Plunge Still Sticks Around; Traders Not to Hold Any Expectations from the Coin
6.9.2019
EOS price experiences a pullback for the second day in a row. The expectations of price rally still unharmed. EOS couldn’t catch up with the uptrend in the market which took the Bitcoin back to $10,000. The coin embarked a slight improvement but later fell. The fall is still noted in the coin...
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Not Proven Safe Havens Says Investor Mark Mobius
5.9.2019
"Anything that’s created by man can be broken into . . . and it could create a big crises," investor Marcus Mobius said about blockchain
Square CEO Jack Dorsey Says Bitcoin Is Not Functional as Currency, Yet
5.9.2019
Square CEO Jack Dorsey does not think Bitcoin is currently functional as a currency
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4.9.2019
Now that we've got cross-browser support for the line-clamp property, I expect we'll see a lot more of that around the web. And as we start to see it more in use, it’s worth the reminder that: Truncation is not a content strategy.
We should at least offer a way to read that that truncated content...
World’s Biggest Bitcoin Cash Conference Kicks Off in Australia – What to Expect
4.9.2019
Arguably set to become the world’s biggest Bitcoin Cash conference yet, Bitcoin Cash City kicked off today in sunny Townsville, North Queensland. The city is not only colorful, friendly, and home to some very beautiful coastline, it’s also shock-full of opportunities to use Bitcoin Cash...
Why Portugal’s Tax-Free Crypto Trading Matters for Bitcoin
3.9.2019
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts and businesses in the industry have had to put up with regulatory uncertainty for quite some time. The strong desire to tap into their incomes and profits goes hand in hand with failure on behalf of authorities and regulators to fully understand the nature...
Bitcoin Dominance Hits 70% as Keiser Warns Altcoins ‘Not Coming Back’
3.9.2019
Altcoiners suffer as Bitcoin continues to reshape market landscape
Crypto Needs Less Government Regulation – Not More
2.9.2019
A recent opinion article by Peter Lin, “Why Regulation Is The Best Thing For Crypto,” presents common arguments on why the state and state-affiliated institutions should administer cryptocurrency. Underlying the arguments is an assumption: the free market cannot provide necessary...
Should a website work without JavaScript?
2.9.2019
The JS Party podcast just had a fun episode where they debated this classic question by splitting into two groups of two. Each group was assigned a "side" of this debate, and then let loose to debate it. I don't think anybody can listen to a show like this and not be totally flooded with thoughts!...
IRS Expands Penalties: Which Tax Mistakes Are Better Not to Commit
2.9.2019
With crypto, the IRS is digging hard, investigating both tax evasion and just poor compliance. What the IRS considers “willful” vs. “non-willful” tax flubs have huge consequences
Dogecoin (DOGE) Gets Bit By The Bear; Intraday Holds Not Much Hope
1.9.2019
Dogecoin closed the last month with a negative digit. The first two quarters brought a substantial change in the price of the DOGE, but the third quarter ruined everything. Dogecoin has almost reached the level from where it started. The traders are looking up for an escalation in the ongoing...