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Energy Used by Idle Device in the U.S. Can Power Bitcoin For 4 Years
3.7.2019
Academic researchers at Cambridge University launched a real-time index that tracks the total electricity consumption of the bitcoin network
Bitcoin Vs Bitcoin Cash: Can Bitcoin Cash’s (BCH) Less Volatility Work as Leverage against Bitcoin (BTC)?
3.7.2019
Both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash have shown five price swings each in the last 24 hours. Both the coins have a bullish medium-term outlook until 2019. Bitcoin’s past few days’ movements have impacted many other coins. One of such coins is Bitcoin Cash. Though not exactly the same, one...
City of Dublin Ohio Plans to Launch Bitcoin Cash-Based SLP Token
3.7.2019
On July 1, Joshua Green, CEO of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) implementation Bitcoin Verde, told the BCH community that the local government from Dublin, Ohio plans to mint a token using the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP). The unnamed SLP token will be used for city events, redeemed for city-branded swag...
Graphical User Interfaces for Git
3.7.2019
Git is command-line-driven software, but that doesn't mean you have to use the command line to make it work. There are lots of options! Some of the deepest programmer nerds I know prefer to use GUIs for Git (Graphic
User Interface, or you know, software you can see things and click stuff), and some...
Toast
3.7.2019
One day, all the sudden, I started hearing jokes about toast. I had no idea what the context was. I assumed some friends just got started telling toast jokes, which isn't rare by any means. But it turns out it was a whole thing. It got me thinking, jeez, if I can't keep up with this stuff when it's...
Confronting Bitcoin Network Issues Using Nakamoto Consensus and a Mining Parliament
1.7.2019
On June 28, Bitcoin Cash proponent Javier Gonzalez announced the launch of an interesting protocol called the Bitcoin Mining Parliament (BMP). The theory behind BMP is backed by the concept of Nakamoto Consensus where “miners are the executive power of Bitcoin” and “any needed...
Collective #528
1.7.2019
Bounds.js * CSS Animation Worklet API * Numverify * HTML can do that? * Using Basis Textures in Three.js
Collective #528 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Tips for rolling your own lazy loading
1.7.2019
You may have heard (or even issued the call) that “we can just use lazy loading!” when looking for a way to slim down a particularly heavy web page.
Lazy loading is a popular technique for gradually requesting images as they come into view, rather than all at once after the HTML of the page...
S&P 500 Gains Can Earn You Bitcoin on New Bain Capital-Backed Exchange
1.7.2019
Crypto derivatives exchange EverMarkets is opening its doors to customers worldwide, with trades collateralized in bitcoin
How Facebook’s Entry In Crypto Space Can Create Fortunes For Bitcoin
30.6.2019
Internet was one of the greatest things man created, and within a few decades, we are talking about Smart Homes, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, etc. However, the journey has been all about the push which internet got, every time one thought it had reached saturation. Internet’s first...
Ross Ulbricht Letter Questions the Wisdom of Imprisoning Non-Violent Offenders
29.6.2019
Forced to spend the rest of his days in a cage, Ross Ulbricht has recounted his situation in a letter, which explains how he’s spent more than 2,096 days in a U.S. federal penitentiary for running a website. Also Read: Bitcoin ‘Inventor’ Craig Wright Claims He Can’t Access...
Bitcoin ‘Inventor’ Craig Wright Claims He Can’t Access Coins in Court Testimony
29.6.2019
On June 28, Craig Wright, the Australian native who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, spent the day in a Florida court battling with the Kleiman attorney. Wright became emotional when he told the court that he designed the network but didn’t like how it turned out. At one point he told the court...
Bitcoin Vs. Ripple: Bitcoin’s (BTC) Shadow Can be Seen on Ripple (XRP); Bullish Run is Likely to Happen Very Soon
29.6.2019
The growth pattern of both Bitcoin & Ripple is similar for the last 24 hours. Both the coins have a bullish medium-term outlook. The whole crypto market is on a growth path after Bitcoin gained, particularly in the last few days. This growth has impacted the other coins significantly as well....
Keep Your Money and Passport Safe With Products You Can Buy With BCH
28.6.2019
In this day and age, carrying your wallet, passport and mobile phone inside the inner pocket of your jacket is simply not enough to protect your assets. Thankfully, there’s a company called Tarriss which offers products designed to secure both your digital cash and personal data. It sells...
How to Debug Remote Browsers
27.6.2019
It’s super frustrating when bugs pop up only in a remote browser. Something about that user, that device, or that environment is different, but I don’t know what! And of course, I can’t recreate it on my local development machine. The team at TrackJS came up with a cool way...
8 Irate Quotes From Officials Who Hate Facebook’s Digital Currency
27.6.2019
The best thing about Facebook’s proposed digital currency isn’t its BTF consensus algorithm, account-based data model or single Merkle tree structure. No, the greatest thing about Libra has to be the triggered reactions from politicians and bankers who can sense the rug being pulled...
How to Cold Store Your Cryptocurrency for Safekeeping
26.6.2019
If you’re new to the crypto scene you might have heard about people moving their assets into cold storage or cold wallets but were unsure exactly what this entails. Simply put, it means storing your crypto offline to reduce access to hackers. Here’s how you can easily freeze your coins...
You Can Now Get Bitcoin Rewards When Booking at Hotels.Com
25.6.2019
Bitcoin rewards application Lolli adds Hotels.com as a new partner, allowing users to earn bitcoin from purchases online
Spam Detection APIs
25.6.2019
I was trying to research the landscape of these the other day — And by research, I mean light Googling and asking on Twitter. Weirdly, very little comes to mind when thinking about spam detection APIs. I mean some kind of URL endpoint, paid or not, where you can hit it with a block of text...
Spam Detection APIs
25.6.2019
I was trying to research the landscape of these the other day — And by research, I mean light Googling and asking on Twitter. Weirdly, very little comes to mind when thinking about spam detection APIs. I mean some kind of URL endpoint, paid or not, where you can hit it with a block of text...