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How Auto Margins Work in Flexbox
6.1.2020
Robin has covered this before, but I've heard some confusion about it in the past few weeks and saw another person take a stab at explaining it, and I wanted to join the party.
Say you have a flex container with some flex items inside that don't fill the whole area.
See the Pen
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These Are the Bitcoin Stories You Loved in 2019
2.1.2020
2019 was a crazy year for cryptocurrency enthusiasts and a number of interesting events happened throughout the last 12 months. It’s hard to keep track of the day-to-day activities taking place within the cryptosphere and there may be a few incidents some of our readers missed....
Alleged $8B BTC Tulip Trust Expires With Tales of Bonded Couriers
1.1.2020
Five years ago, the crypto community became aware of an alleged contract called the Tulip Trust. The supposed contract emerged when a few tech-based news outlets published stories on two former business partners Craig Wright and David Kleiman. According to the Tulip Trust contract story, Wright...
Number of Israeli Blockchain Companies Grew by 32% in 2019
31.12.2019
Despite the harsh market conditions this year, high profile closures of a few ventures and a lot of employee downsizing, the number of companies operating in the blockchain and cryptocurrency fields in Israel actually grew by 32% in 2019. Also Read: Bankrupt DX Exchange Didn’t Pay Israeli...
Market Update: Crypto Traders Search for Bullish and Bearish Trends
29.12.2019
During the last few days, digital currency markets have been meandering sideways and prices have been less volatile. On Sunday, during the last 24 hours, the entire cryptoconomy is hovering just below the $200 billion zone and there’s roughly $71 billion in global trades. Crypto proponents...
Harsh Laws Make Bitcoin Holders Consider Renunciation or Dual Citizenship
28.12.2019
As digital currencies become a mainstay in society, a great number of governments have enforced strict tax guidelines, severe money transmission rules, and tough regulations. Because of a few nation-states’ harsh rules against cryptos, there are individuals who plan to renounce their...
User Reports Reveal Visa and Mastercard Outages During the Holidays
27.12.2019
Having problems with payments around Christmas can be frustrating, especially for those who leave gift buying till the last minute. With calmer markets this holiday season, the crypto ecosystem has been operating relatively smoothly, with few exceptions. The fiat world, however, saw some glitches...
So Many Color Links
27.12.2019
There's been a run of tools, articles, and resources about color lately. Please allow me to close a few tabs by rounding them up here for your enjoyment.
Curated colors in context
Happy Hues demonstrates a bunch of color palettes in the context of the site itself. That's a nice way to do...
7 Steel Crypto Wallets That Withstand Extreme Fire and Water Damage
25.12.2019
Cryptocurrencies have become valuable over the last few years and hardware wallets are now a mainstay within the cryptosphere. More recently, steel-crafted wallets that store crypto keys on a hard piece of metal have become increasingly popular. The following is a look at the wide variety...
These Myth-Busting Articles Dispel Common Bitcoin Myths
22.12.2019
Recently, a few Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents have been writing a series of myth-busting articles that describe Bitcoin technicals generally thought to be true but which are not. The articles posted on the read.cash blog have reviewed topics like 10-minute confirmation times, SPV wallets,...
How to the Get Current Page URL in Gatsby
20.12.2019
This seemingly simple task had me scratching my head for a few hours while I was working on my website. As it turns out, getting the current page URL in Gatsby is not as straightforward as you may think, but also not so complicated to understand.
Let’s look at a few methods of making it happen....
Travelbybit to Drop Bitcoin Payments After Viral Double Spend Video
20.12.2019
On December 18, Bitcoinbch.com published a video explaining how easy it is to double spend BTC transactions in the wild. Not long after the film was released, the payment processor Travelbybit announced it would be removing both BTC and BCH payments for over 400 Australian merchants. Unfortunately...
Whales Control Most of Litecoin, Many Ethereum Tokens
19.12.2019
A new study of 140,000 crypto addresses finds that few accounts are needed to form majority ownership of many coins. More than half of all LTC is held in just 189 non-exchange addresses, and on average, the top 100 ERC20 tokens are majority-owned by just 34 addresses. Almost 1 in 4 tokens had...
European AML Directive Pushes Crypto Startup Bottle Pay Out of Business
15.12.2019
Bottle Pay, a cryptocurrency payments provider from the U.K., has announced its decision to cease operations by the end of the year. Despite attracting some serious funding and expanding its user base significantly in the past few months, the company has found it unacceptable to continue to work...
The Country With Europe’s Highest Interest Rate Has Cut It 5 Times This Year
14.12.2019
Around half of European countries, over 20, now have 0% interest rates and a few are already in negative territory. Ukraine, which has the highest benchmark interest rate on the continent, has just reduced it again, for the fifth time this year. The race between central banks to cut rates, when...
Lightning Network Wiki Page Faces Removal for Lack of Notability
13.12.2019
A slew of Wikipedia editors would like to delete the Lightning Network (LN) Wiki page because the subject matter does not hold notability. Wikipedia editors use notability as a test to find out if a topic warrants its own article. The LN article debate on Wikipedia is still raging as a few editors...
Detecting Inactive Users
13.12.2019
Most of the time you don’t really care about whether a user is actively engaged or temporarily inactive on your application. Inactive, meaning, perhaps they got up to get a drink of water, or more likely, changed tabs to do something else for a bit. There are situations, though, when tracking...
Croatian Post Now Offers Crypto Exchange Service at 55 Branches
12.12.2019
Croatian Post, the biggest provider of postal services in the Republic of Croatia, is now offering a cryptocurrency exchange service at 55 post offices throughout the country. Currently, five cryptocurrencies are supported. This follows a successful implementation and positive results of a pilot...
Market Update: Despite Uncertainty, BTC Longs Skyrocket
11.12.2019
Digital currency prices have slumped again as the entire crypto market capitalization has dropped below $200 billion. At press time, most of the top digital assets are down a few percentages after gathering some gains over the last few days. With multiple coins getting rejected after trying...
The State Encourages ICO Fraud. The Free Market Minimizes It
11.12.2019
Many Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have been and are frauds. The state enables this con game in various ways, including the establishment of accredited investors and the regulation of businesses that sell equity. Shut off from the most lucrative aspects of investment, average people rush into...