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Spanish Banking Giant Prepared For Bitcoin, PayPal's BTC Game + More News
18.12.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Banking news
Spanish banking giant BBVA said that starting in January 2021, its unit in Switzerland will progressively launch a new service for...
Optimizing Image Depth
18.12.2020
Something I learned (or, I guess, re-learned) this year is how important it is to pay close attention to the bit depth of images. Way back in the day, we used to obsessively choose between 2-, 4-, or 8-bit color depth on our GIFs, because when lots of users were using dialup modems to surf the...
$1 Billion in Bitcoin and Ether: One River Hedge Fund to Increase Holdings From $600 Million
18.12.2020
Hedge fund management firm One River Asset Management has invested $600 million in bitcoin and ether with a plan to increase its holdings to $1 billion next year. The company has two cryptocurrency funds: the Bitcoin Fund and the Ethereum Fund. $1 Billion Investment in Bitcoin and Ether One River...
Friday's Best Deals: Instacart Gift Card, Sony WF-1000XM3 Earbuds, Eufy Smart Scale, John Wick Hex, Soap & Glory, Crane & Canopy Sleep Set, and More
18.12.2020
An Instacart $100 gift card and Sony’s WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds lead Friday’s best deals.Read more
What Makes CSS Hard To Master
18.12.2020
Tim Severien:
I feel we, the community, have to acknowledge that CSS is easy to get started with and hard to master. Let’s reflect on the language and find out what makes it hard.
Tim’s reasons CSS is hard (in my own words):
You can look at a matching Ruleset, and still not have the whole...
What’s Old is New
18.12.2020
This year, I learned a lot about how “old” tricks can solve a lot of modern problems if you use the right tools. Following the growth of Jamstack-style development has been both a learning experience, while also a nostalgic one. It’s been amazing to see how you can power plain...
Crypto regulation now more institution-friendly, METACO head explains
17.12.2020
Future crypto guidelines remain uncertain, however
Bitcoin is 'more religion than solution,' says billionaire Mark Cuban
17.12.2020
"No matter how much BTC fans want to pretend that it’s a hedge against doomsday scenarios, it is not."
Nigeria Is Paxful’s Second Biggest P2P Bitcoin Market, Trades Top $566 Million in Five Years
17.12.2020
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and most populous nation, traded more than $566 million worth of bitcoin between 2015 and 2020, making it the world’s second-largest peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin market after the U.S., which traded $3.75 billion in the period under review. According to...
Regulatory Crypto Primer, NiceHash Reimburses BTC 4,6K Hack Victims + More News
17.12.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Regulation news
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released a Digital Assets Primer today. The focus of this primer is broader...
I learned to love the Same-Origin Policy
17.12.2020
I spent a good chunk of my work life this year trying (in collaboration with the amazing Noam Rosenthal) to standardize a new web platform feature: a way to modify the intrinsic size and resolution of images. And hey! We did it! But boy, was it ever a learning experience.
This wasn’t my first...
25 Years of JavaScript & 25 Free Courses
17.12.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Pluralsight is giving away 25 courses on JavaScript for free to celebrate JavaScript’s 25th birthday. It’s no cheapie, either. The courses range from getting your hands dirty with JavaScript for the first time, to full-on reactive development....
Bitcoin’s Value Surpasses $23,700, Critics Claim Its a ‘Bubble,’ Onchain Analyst Says $100K Prices ‘Ridiculously Low’
17.12.2020
The crypto economy has gained a massive amount of value during the last few days, as the aggregate market cap of all 7,500+ digital assets is a whopping $640 billion on Thursday. Meanwhile, the largest blockchain in terms of valuation, bitcoin has touched an all-time high of $23,777 rising more...
Thursday's Best Deals: Amazon Fire HD 8 Tablet, 512GB microSD Card, UGG Slippers, Satisfyer Penguin, Keurig K-Select, Nuovawhite Teeth Whitening Kit, and More
17.12.2020
The Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet and a Sandisk 512GB microSD card lead Thursday’s best deals.Read more
XRP Strengthens More than Bitcoin and Ethereum in Past 24 Hours
17.12.2020
XRP, one of the top three digital assets, is seen trading with a complete positive sentiment as bulls retain for the 2nd day in the row, wherein the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is hitting fresh highs above $23k. XRP has gained massively around 35% from yesterday’s lows to...
More People Seem Interested in Buying Bitcoin (and Ethereum) Than Selling It
17.12.2020
It would seem that people are much more interested these days in potentially owning (more) bitcoin (BTC), than they are in selling what they have.
As we're all well aware off, Google practically means 'search engine' at this point, so Google Trends can provide an interesting insight into what...
21M Bitcoin and the Promise of Scarcity
17.12.2020
In Bitcoin, the promise of a limited supply is great. This was one of the biggest things that initially appealed to me when I heard about Bitcoin. “No more than twenty one million bitcoins will ever exist!” But can this promise be kept in the long run? Has the Promise Already Been...
LPNT’s Strategy For Increasing LPN TOKEN’s Utilization, Circulation, Demand and Supply
17.12.2020
PRESS RELEASE. Forex trading is the world’s largest decentralized liquidity market. LPN TOKEN is an undisputed leader in this domain of finance. This is possible with the help of Dubai based Next Forex Technologies LLC, the sister company of LPNT. LPN TOKEN actually provides the best forex...
Three Ways to Distinguish a Site From the Norm
16.12.2020
In an age where so much web design is already neat, clean, and simple, I can think of three ways to distinguish your site from the norm:
Stunning visuals that cannot be created in UI vector editors, like Figma and Sketch
Beautifully-animated interactions that cannot be dreamt in the language...
Learning to Simplify
16.12.2020
When I first got this writing prompt, my mind immediately started thinking stuff like, “What tech have I learned this year?” But this post isn’t really about tech, because I think what I’ve learned the most about building websites this past year is simplification.
This year, I’ve learned that...