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People Who Want to Control Their Capital Buy Bitcoin, Says Circle CEO
20.8.2019
Circle CEO is confident that Bitcoin is becoming an increasingly attractive safe haven for investors
Mercurial Tips
19.8.2019
While most of the world seems to be using git for version control, Mozilla continues to use Mercurial (hg) to manage the Firefox source code. As a git and GitHub lover, it took me a while to get used to Mercurial. I don’t consider myself a hg expert but I know enough to complete...
War For Control Over Money: How Can Governments Respond to Crypto?
17.8.2019
Governments have never really been big fans of crypto. Sure, the odd finance minister and president has praised blockchain technology or even cryptocurrencies themselves on the rare occasion, but generally the overall mood has been one of suspicion and even outright hostility.
And now, with...
Argentina’s Peso Collapse Shows Governments Shouldn’t Control Money
15.8.2019
Whenever bitcoin experiences a sharp drop or volatility, mainstream media analysts jump to declare that cryptocurrency isn’t stable enough to be considered money. The double-digit crash of the Argentine peso in one day, simply due to an election in the country, can be said to prove the same...
More Control or More Freedom? SEC to Run BTC, ETH, XRP nodes; Inviting Contractors
1.8.2019
Contractors for running Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) nodes are required. This notice was announced by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) The SEC wants to run its own nodes on Bitcoin and Ethereum. The chosen contractors will need to run the nodes on behalf...
Ripple Price Analysis: Bulls Take Control, Ripple (XRP) Climbs Above $0.32
27.7.2019
Ripple reclaims its price position above $0.32 over a day XRP price seems to have decent support at $0.30 The coin is correcting down from $0.3275, after three major surges Ripple is yet to step out of the selling pressure XRP has been trading upwards since yesterday against the U.S Dollar...
WDRL — Edition 269: Shaping up, Doing well while doing good, Single toggle buttons and the Illusion of control
19.7.2019
Hey,
it’s been already four weeks since the last edition. I’ve been on vacation for two weeks and around that, as many of you probably can relate, work is crazy. Before going off you have to finish things and when you come back, you’re overwhelmed by what happend during your absence. And...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Price Largely in Control of Bears, Trades Even Below $9500
17.7.2019
Bitcoin price breaks even below $9400, hovers around $9100 BTC continues to decrease while tracing a bearish trendline BTC faces Selling pressure, while the price may still continue to decrease In the last 4 hours, Bitcoin saw a decline of 4.25% This seems to be a bad week for Bitcoin as the coin...
Global Crypto War Is Heating up – Iran Next in Line With Its Own Gold-Backed Coin
17.7.2019
Control of the U.S. dollar and the global financial system that depends on it gives the American government an incredibly powerful tool in shaping international affairs. As such, it is not surprising that its geopolitical rivals around the world will try to exploit the invention of cryptocurrency...
JP Morgan Chase Ship Busted: Cocaine, Banks and the Failed Drug War
11.7.2019
A ship seized by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency in June carrying over 15,000 kilos of cocaine has now been tied to JP Morgan Chase’s asset management unit. Officially the company does not exercise any operational control of the vessel, but some serious questions are raised when...
PR: My BitIRA Launches to Empower US Consumers With 24/7 Cryptocurrency Retirement Account Access
10.7.2019
BitIRA — pioneer of the first insured cold storage solution for cryptocurrency retirement accounts — has launched its newest tool, the “My BitIRA”[https://my.bitira.com] investing platform. My BitIRA maximizes the transparency and control individuals in the U.S. have over their cryptocurrency...
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...
Bitcoin’s (BTC) Rise Could Damage The Control Of The United States Over World Currency Reserves
28.6.2019
The world prior to pre and post World War II has been quite contrasting, especially in terms of global leadership. For almost two centuries, the Europeans dominated world politics, but the end of the second Great War marked the rise of the United States of America, who continues its dominance...
FATF to Strengthen Control Over Crypto Exchanges to Prevent Money Laundering
21.6.2019
At the plenary session today, the FATF focused on greater regulation of cryptocurrency to stop its usage in money laundering
PR: Sparrow Makes Trading Options Simple and Secure
10.6.2019
Sparrow, the Singapore-based options trading platform has launched its revolutionary platform which empowers institutions and individuals to trade options that are settled by smart contract. Sparrow offers a simple and secure way for traders to control risk in the volatile digital asset market...
Facebook To Launch Its Cryptocurrency This Month, Expected To Shift Control To Outside Backers
6.6.2019
Behemoth social networking platform Facebook will be reportedly launching its digital currency later this month. The company will give employees working on the project to take the digital coin as their salary. The token will work as a borderless currency and will be heavily promoted in developing...
Craig Wright’s Close Aide Calvin Ayre Claims To Control The Biggest Bitcoin Mining Company
2.6.2019
Bitcoin SV and those associated with are, may or may not for the right reasons, breaking the internet. Though BSV spearhead Craig Wright is busy proving each and everyone that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, he doesn’t fail to lash out his critics, most notably, Changpeng Zhao of Binance. However, when...
A Practical Use Case for Vue Render Functions: Building a Design System Typography Grid
30.5.2019
This post covers how I built a typography grid for a design system using Vue render functions. Here’s the demo and the code. I used render functions because they allow you to create HTML with a greater level of control than regular Vue templates, yet surprisingly I couldn’t find very much when...
Decentralized Identity: How Microsoft (and Others) Plan to Empower Users to Own and Control Personal Data
19.5.2019
Microsoft wants you to take control of your personal data with its new blockchain project called the decentralized identity (DID) network, built on the bitcoin network
Google Fonts Now Supports font-display!
16.5.2019
font-display is a CSS feature that allows us to control how we load fonts.
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