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Ethereum Classic Completed its Atlantis Hard Fork
12.9.2019
Today, one of the major blockchains, Ethereum Classic (ETC), hard forked at block height 8,772,000 as scheduled, implementing new upgrades to the blockchain.
As a reminder, Ethereum Classic was created after a hard fork of the original Ethereum blockchain in 2016. This Atlantis update adopts...
Cryptocurrency Exchange OKEx Announces Support for ETC Hard Fork
10.9.2019
Crypto exchange OKEx to support ETC’s Atlantis hard fork
Trading Bitcoin Is Hard — 10 Things Every Beginner Trader Must Know
10.9.2019
Crypto is every beginner trader’s nightmare
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...
Ethereum’s Istanbul Hard Fork Set to be Activated on Testnet This October
8.9.2019
On Friday, September 7th, Hudson Jameson, community manager of Ethereum Foundation officially declared that the system-wide upgrade of Ethereum’s Istanbul hard fork had been set to be activated on the testnet by this October. Jameson, on an Ethereum’s internal core developer call, said, For anyone...
Ethereum's Istanbul Hard Fork Implementation Delayed to Early October
7.9.2019
Ethereum’s testnet activation of the Istanbul hard fork is now scheduled to take place in the beginning of October, according to the Ethereum Foundation
Ethereum Picks Early October for Testnet Activation of Istanbul Hard Fork
6.9.2019
In a call Friday, ethereum developers picked a block height for the testnet launch of the Istanbul system-wide upgrade. It's expected for Oct. 2
Discuss the Future of Blockchain, Finance, and Business at Hard Fork Summit
2.9.2019
Hard Fork Summit by TNW is back for its second edition. For three days in October, digital leaders in finance, regulation, and blockchain will come together to do business and discuss a new era of fintech and decentralized business models. Hosted in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the program includes...
Smokescreens and Mirrors: How Does a Country Do an ICO? They Call It QE
22.8.2019
Financial regulators all around the world have been cracking down hard on ICOs for promising more than they can deliver. At the same time governments and central banks are pulling off far worse scams, such as QE, wiping out the savings of everyone that depends on them. To hide this fact they...
Market Update: Prices Drop as Crypto Sentiment Enters the Fear Zone
21.8.2019
Cryptocurrency markets fell hard on August 21 following the $700 price drop bitcoin core (BTC) saw during the early morning trading sessions. Most digital assets have lost 2-8% in value as the overall market valuation of all 2,000+ coins has plunged to $263 billion. Crypto price movements have been...
Using requestAnimationFrame with React Hooks
21.8.2019
Animating with requestAnimationFrame should be easy, but if you haven’t read React’s documentation thoroughly then you will probably run into a few things that might cause you a headache. Here are three gotcha moments I learned the hard way.
TLDR: Pass an empty array as a second parameter...
Privacy Token Beam Completes First Hard Fork Against the ASICs
16.8.2019
Beam, the privacy coin based on Mimblewimble protocol, completed its 1st hard fork on 15th August 2019 at 19:00 hrs. (UTC) away from the ASICs. The scheduled fork was carried out at 321,321 blocks, according to the reports. Beam’s hard fork adapted the mining algorithm owing to the ASIC mining...
Ethereum Coders Approve 6 Changes for Upcoming Istanbul Hard Fork
16.8.2019
Ethereum core developers have finalized a list of EIPs for the network's next system-wide upgrade
Privacy Coin Beam Conducts First Hard Fork Away From ASICs
16.8.2019
Launching in January of this year, beam is one of two first implementations of the Mimblewimble privacy protocol
Steemit to Automate Development Funding With New DAO
15.8.2019
The blockchain project that focuses on monetizing social media sites is launching a DAO in its coming hard fork upgrade
The Differing Perspectives on CSS-in-JS
14.8.2019
Some people outright hate the idea of CSS-in-JS. Just that name is offensive. Hard no. Styling doesn't belong in CSS, it belongs in CSS, a thing that already exists and that browsers are optimized to use. Separation of concerns. Anything else is a laughable misstep, a sign of not learning from...
In Big Block Hard Fork, Craig Wright’s Bitcoin Has Left Nodes Behind
10.8.2019
After a recent network upgrade, nodes separated from the bitcoin SV blockchain, highlighting why hard forks prompt much infighting among devs
Crypto Social Media is Breaking Free: How 10+ Blockchain Platforms Pay You to Post
4.8.2019
Social media has become so embedded in most people’s everyday lives that it’s hard to imagine life — or even a span of a few hours — without it. While the social media revolution is huge, there’s another revolution within that revolution, driven by users into...
IOTA Price Analysis: IOTA Pushes Hard to Trade Above $0.29
29.7.2019
IOTA traces a bearish trendline even after an upward correction The coin has heavily dropped below $0.29 The coin has seen support price at $0.2679, started to rebound Bitcoin has recently rebounded from $9165.77 and currently trading above $9400, however, the coin still awaits a bullish price...
Ethereum Price Analysis: Ethereum (ETH) Price Working Hard to Beat the Bears
24.7.2019
Ethereum (ETH), a fundamentally strong coin on the blockchain platform has been going through a lot of ups and downs due to the current market volatility. This week the price has somewhat managed to gain an upper trend though the bears are still present in the market and pushing the price...