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GoTenna Partners With Blockstream Satellite to Make Using Bitcoin Without an Internet Connection Simpler
11.5.2019
Sending bitcoin transactions without an internet connection just got a little bit easier. Announced at the Magical Crypto Conference on Saturday in New York City, Blockstream Satellite and goTenna are integrating their technologies to make it easier to send bitcoin transactions with technology used...
HTC Says Its Next Smartphone Will Run a Full Bitcoin Node
11.5.2019
HTC plans to release a low-cost smartphone capable of running a full bitcoin node by the end of Q3
Ethereum Foundation Plans to Spend $30 Million on Ecosystem Development
11.5.2019
The Ethereum Foundation's executive director, Aya Miyaguchi, announced how much the non-profit aims to spend on critical projects
Ethereum Stablecoin DAI Is Trending Towards Its Highly Sought Dollar Value
10.5.2019
After four months, the ethereum-based stablecoin DAI looks to be maintaining a steady dollar valuation
Ethereum Stablecoin DAI Is Trending Towards Its Highly Sought Dollar Value
10.5.2019
After four months, the ethereum-based stablecoin DAI looks to be maintaining a steady dollar valuation
All of It Dark, All of It P2P: After the Binance Hack, Bitcoin Doesn’t Cut It
10.5.2019
That Binance could have colluded with miners to roll back hack transactions means bitcoin is not resistant enough to censorship, says Amir Taaki
Bitcoin’s Software Has Been Rolled Back Before
9.5.2019
When Binance lost $40 million to hackers this week, the crypto community discussed reorganizing the chain after it was suggested by a developer from MIT. Many people were upset by this proposition, declaring that there was no way a coordinated effort with miners could be pulled off. However, most...
Florincoin – The 2013 Altcoin You Don’t Remember – Is Attracting Real Users
9.5.2019
An obscure cryptocurrency that first started getting noticed during the 2014 altcoin boom is showing itself a true diamond in the rough
Perceived Velocity through Version Numbers
30.4.2019
HTML5 and CSS3 were big. So big that they were buzzwords that actually meant something and were a massive success story in pushing web technology forward. JavaScript names their big releases now too: ES6, ES7, ES8... and it seems like it will keep going that way.
But HTML and CSS are done with that...
Using the Web Speech API for Multilingual Translations
12.4.2019
Since the early days of science fiction, we have fantasized about machines that talk to us. Today it is commonplace. Even so, the technology for making websites talk is still pretty new.
We can make our pages on the web talk using the SpeechSynthesis part of the Web Speech API. This is still...
AI-Based Video Preview from Cloudinary (Sponsored)
8.4.2019
The early days of video on the web weren’t great. We started with custom browser plugins and codecs, then moved to Flash, and eventually we found our way HTML <video>. Once we solved the technology problem, we started using more video for content and advertising. The next problem...
2019: Year of the DEX
4.4.2019
Is the winter of cryptocurrency prices the golden age of blockchain technology? Welcome 2019, the year of Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) From the CMC editorial team: We’ve heard lots of hype around DEXes billing 2019 as the year that they might […]
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Next Genpm
27.3.2019
So many web projects use npm to pull in their dependencies, for both the front end and back. npm install and away it goes, pulling thousands of files into a node_modules folder in our projects to import/require anything. It's an important cog in the great machine of web development.
While I don't...
How blockchain will disrupt the communication industry
22.3.2019
From the CMC editorial desk: One of the things we’ve always wanted to explore is what mass adoption of blockchain technology looks like. Here we have some examples of how it will change the face of the communication industry in […]
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Visa Inc. Dips Full-throttle into Crypto, Another Startup Launches a Crypto Debit Card
19.3.2019
Things are turning for the better in the crypto industry as traditional major companies are adopting blockchain technology one way or the other. Payments giant Visa Inc. has set up a cryptocurrency unit and is already looking for the right […]
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Bitcoin Bulls to Return in August, Cboe suspends Bitcoin Futures Listings
16.3.2019
The crypto industry is as interesting as ever. Fundstrat founder Thomas Lee has predicted that Bitcoin bulls will return in August. Weiss Rating agency stirred debate when it claimed that Stellar has superior technology to Ripple. Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex has […]
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Privacy Cryptocurrency Grin Votes to Fund Third Full-Time Developer
14.3.2019
The community behind privacy-focused cryptocurrency Grin has recently decided to fund its third full-time developer
Getting into GraphQL with AWS AppSync
12.3.2019
GraphQL is becoming increasingly popular. The problem is that if you are a front-end developer, you are only half of the way there. GraphQL is not just a client technology. The server also has to be implemented according to the specification. This means that in order to implement GraphQL into your...
The ineffectiveness of lonely icons
11.2.2019
Icons are great and all, but as we've been shown time and time again, they often don't do the job all by themselves. Even if you do a good job with the accessibility part and make sure there is accompanying text there for assistive technology, in an ironic twist, you might be confusing people...
Angular, Autoprefixer, IE11, and CSS Grid Walk into a Bar…
18.1.2019
I am attracted to the idea that you shouldn't care how the code you author ends up in the browser. It's already minified. It's already gzipped. It's already transmogrified (real word!) by things that polyfill it, things that convert it into code that older browsers understand, things that make...