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How Cultural Differences Drive User Adoption in DeFi
21.1.2021
Despite being virtually identical products at launch, SushiSwap and Uniswap have taken divergent paths as they respond to users, says Multicoin's principal
Multiple DeFi projects unveil, plan new user interface upgrades
20.1.2021
DeFi's getting a makeover as multiple platforms unveil new frontends, but will the efforts attract users?
India’s Largest Crypto Exchange Launches User-Friendly App, Eyes 50M New Users
19.1.2021
Aimed to appeal to crypto newcomers, CoinDCX Go allows users to trade smaller denominations of 14 of the industry's top assets
Rendering the WordPress philosophy in GraphQL
18.1.2021
WordPress is a CMS that’s coded in PHP. But, even though PHP is the foundation, WordPress also holds a philosophy where user needs are prioritized over developer convenience. That philosophy establishes an implicit contract between the developers building WordPress themes …
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Crypto Industry’s Favorite Messaging App Telegram Surpasses 500 Million Active Users
13.1.2021
Telegram, a popular messaging app within the cryptocurrency space, surpassed 500 million monthly active users during the first week of January, according to Telegram chief executive officer Pavel Durov. In the last 72 hours, said Durov, the app has seen a massive surge in new users, with...
Stacks 2.0 Advances Bitcoin Into the Age of DeFi and Creates a New Way to Earn BTC
12.1.2021
Stacks 2.0 is set to revolutionize the internet itself by empowering a decentralized and user-owned ecosystem built on top of the most secure blockchain in the world. This will be achieved by bringing apps and smart contracts anchored to bitcoin. The innovation will also create a brand new way...
Reddit User Finds 127 Old Bitcoins at Grandpa’s House – Pockets Over $4 Million After Selling
11.1.2021
A Reddit user says he (or she) recently regained access to the keys of 127 bitcoins eight years after last accessing the coins. Immediately after regaining access, the user sold all the bitcoins and pocketed over $4 million in the process. According to the user, they received the bitcoins...
navigator.clipboard API
11.1.2021
Interacting with a user’s host clipboard is something web developers have wanted for both good and evil purposes. On the good side, it’s nice to allow users to easily copy text like wallet addresses or branch names; for evil, copying malicious text that the user may mistakenly paste...
Crypto user recovers long-lost private keys to access $4M in Bitcoin
11.1.2021
Even with their newfound fortune, the lucky student said they will avoid “expensive luxuries” like a new car or house
Crypto User Loses Over $100K in Bitcoin While Transferring His Wallet
9.1.2021
A bitcoin user has shared his story of how he lost more than $100,000 in BTC during a wallet transfer. The bitcoiner attempted to transfer a wallet to a new computer without making sure that he had access to the encryption passwords tied to his private key storage. Password Manager Didn’t...
Styling Code In and Out of Blocks
6.1.2021
There is a <code> tag in HTML. I literally just used it to wrap that tag in the previous sentence — so meta. It is an inline-by-default element that denotes any sort of code. It has default (user agent) styles …
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Kraken Users Are Staking More Than $1B in Crypto
6.1.2021
The value reflects the many long positions investors are trading in cryptocurrencies
Crypto exchange Shapeshift integrates DEXes, relieves user KYC burdens
6.1.2021
The new DEX onramps will offer users access to new assets, as well as better liquidity and security
Make Your Own Tools
4.1.2021
Spencer Miskoviak on the Wealthfront blog:
By creating custom DevTools specific to an app, they can operate at an even higher abstraction to handle things like user interactions, or debugging tracking events. While this requires building and maintaining the
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'Christmas magic,' says Chainlink user who received $11K in donations for $50K mistake
29.12.2020
Aavegotchi sent the crypto user donations from more than 200 deposits for Christmas Day
Responsible, Conditional Loading
25.12.2020
Over on the Polyplane blog (there’s no byline but presumably it’s Kilian Valkhof), there is a great article, Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data, about the prefers-reduced-data media query. No browser support yet, but eventually you can use it in CSS to make choices that reduce...
An Unknown User Incurs More Than $80,000 in Transaction Fees When Sending BTC Worth $1
23.12.2020
An unknown person incurred a transaction fee of more than $80,000 or (3.49079570 bitcoins) when transferring bitcoin worth $1.16. According to Blockchain.com, the December 19 transaction, which is included in block 662052, had an input of 3.49084570 bitcoin and an output of 0.00005000 bitcoin....
“Yes or No?”
23.12.2020
Sara Soueidan digs into this HTML/UX situation. “Yes” or “no” is a boolean situation. A checkbox represents this: it’s either on or off (uh, mostly). But is a checkbox always the best UX? It depends, of course:
Use radio buttons if you expect the answer to be equally...
Survey: There Is ‘Significant Room’ for the NFT Market to Grow Despite Widespread Lack of Knowledge Among People
19.12.2020
A survey about non-fungible token (NFT) trends on crypto users revealed that 47% of correspondents had heard of NFT, and among these, 63% of them had only a basic understanding about it, while 57% of them had never used them. Survey Reveals Common User Has Just a Basic Understanding of NFT Market...
'Be my Santa, please' — Chainlink user offers $13K reward to fix $50K mistake
16.12.2020
"I have already done hundreds of transactions on the ETH chain and by one oversight, rush, and my son's lessons, I lost my life savings."