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2 New Blog Sites That Allow Users to Earn Cryptocurrencies
13.11.2019
During the last few years, cryptocurrency enthusiasts have explored blogging and content publishing websites that are powered by digital currencies. Recently, two new publishing websites that utilize cryptocurrencies have been gathering traction. The crypto powered blogging platform Publish 0x pays...
An Early Look at the Vue 3 Composition API in the Wild
13.11.2019
I recently had an opportunity to try the new Vue Composition API in a real project to check where it might be useful and how we could use it in the future.
Until now, when we were creating a new component we were using Options API. That API forced us to separate the component’s code by options...
Spend 10 Cryptocurrencies With These Debit Cards
12.11.2019
Debit cards linked to crypto wallets have been a useful payment tool for users who want to be able to spend their cryptocurrencies almost anywhere. Offerings in the segment have been changing over time due to various reasons including regulatory challenges in different markets. Fortunately, though...
Venezuela Becomes ‘Dollarized’ as Citizens Seek Refuge in Alternative Solutions
12.11.2019
Venezuela has been suffering from rapid inflation as the purchasing power of the sovereign bolivar has become near worthless. Over the last few weeks, Venezuelans have been dealing with blackouts throughout major cities, making credit card readers useless. Additionally, citizens are dependent...
China Central Bank Official: Digital Yuan Should Have ‘Controllable Anonymity’
12.11.2019
China’s proposed digital yuan should strike a balance between protecting privacy and regulatory enforcement, a central bank official said
A Super Weird CSS Bug That Affects Text Selection
12.11.2019
You know how you can style (to some degree) selected text with ::selection? Well, Jeff Starr uncovered a heck of a weird CSS bug.
If you:
Leave that selector empty
Link it from an external stylesheet (rather than <style> block)
Selecting text will have no style at all....
6 Months Before Halving Signs Indicate Bitcoin Miners Are Hoarding
12.11.2019
The great bitcoin reward halvings are coming and many newcomers have not experienced a halving event unless they joined the crypto community prior to 2016. A few speculators believe bitcoin miners and whales are hoarding coins right now until after the adjustment so prices will be driven...
Disabled buttons suck
11.11.2019
In this oldie but goodie, Hampus Sethfors digs into why disabled buttons are troubling for usability reasons and he details one example where this was pretty annoying for him. The same has happened to me recently where I clicked a button that looked like a secondary button and... nothing happened....
Crypto Banks Gain Regulatory Recognition Across the Globe
11.11.2019
Traditional financial institutions are still leery about decentralized cryptocurrencies. They are only starting to explore the potential of digital assets. But a new breed of banks specializing in crypto have been working hard to take advantage of this trend and are gaining regulatory recognition...
How to Start With Bitcoin at No Cost
10.11.2019
Getting into the Bitcoin world is by default easy and it doesn’t have to cost you anything. All you need to do to get started is to install a cryptocurrency wallet and load it with some digital cash. The growing crypto community, always enthusiastic about accepting new members, has done a...
QE Infinity: 37 Central Banks Participate in Stimulus and Easing Practices
9.11.2019
Since the last week of October, a great number of central banks have been slashing interest rates, joining the massive synchronization of monetary easing worldwide. This year more than two dozen banks have used easing tactics and in the last two weeks alone central banks from Costa Rica, Hong Kong...
How Crypto Winters of Bitcoin’s Past Compare to Today
8.11.2019
Cryptocurrency and bitcoin proponents have been patiently waiting to see if crypto winter is returning as the recent price decline has shaken investors. Digital assets have been meandering aimlessly over the last week and in order to gain some perspective, it’s always good to study the last...
Holders of the Digital Yuan Will Not Be Paid Interest
8.11.2019
China has been sending mixed signals about its preparedness to issue a national crypto. Despite the new blockchain push, there is still no timeframe for the anticipated launch of the digital yuan and few details have been revealed so far. However, a senior official from China’s central bank...
Crypto Tax Guidelines Leave More Questions Than Answers
8.11.2019
Cryptocurrency holders have long wrestled with their tax obligations. These fiduciary duties have been complicated by tax agencies, which are several steps behind technology and now playing crypto catch-up. Updated guidelines from the U.S. and U.K.’s tax agencies were finally released this...
Crypto and Blockchain Jobs Have Increased By 26% Since 2018: Research
8.11.2019
Wile the number of ads being posted in the space has grown, job seeker interest has plummeted, according to Indeed data
Can We Expect Cryptocurrencies to Have Intrinsic Value in the Future?
8.11.2019
Cryptocurrency value is often predicted from its use case, utility, and by demand among different factors. Currently, Cryptocurrency has a lot of value. Besides, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies is over 400 billion dollars. Further, if a cryptocurrency is about to take over paper...
Congressional Hopeful Agatha Bacelar Talks Silk Road on the Bitcoin.com Podcast
8.11.2019
“It’s clear that the political establishment wants to hold back a future where economic freedom is afforded to all.” This excerpt from Congressional hopeful Agatha Bacelar’s campaign donation page echoes what many within the cryptosphere have been saying ever since Satoshi...
Ridiculous Crypto Regulations Are an Enemy of Bitcoin
7.11.2019
One of the biggest privacy issues in today’s society revolves around the use of overreaching know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) laws. Despite the fact that many cryptocurrencies were designed to avoid these invasive practices, KYC and AML guidelines bolstered...
Market Outlook: Crypto Whale Tales and China’s Blockchain Hype
7.11.2019
During our last market outlook, cryptocurrency prices had found new foundations after the massive rally on Friday, October 25. Since then digital currency prices have been meandering roughly in the same positions after coins like BTC failed to break upper resistance on various occasions. Also read:...
Query JSON documents in the Terminal with GROQ
7.11.2019
JSON documents are everywhere today, but they are rarely structured the way you want them to be. They often include too much data, have weirdly named fields, or place the data in unnecessary nested objects. Graph-Relational Object Queries (GROQ) is a query language (like SQL, but different) which...