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Coda Protocol Hoping to Expand User Base by Teaching People How to Run Nodes for Free
26.8.2020
Marketed as a lightweight blockchain, the Coda Protocol team wants to train node operators ahead of its expected mainnent launch in Q4
MetaMask Updates User License, Some Users Need to Pay Fee
23.8.2020
Nothing in life is free
A Community-Driven Site with Eleventy: Building the Site
20.8.2020
In the last article, we learned what goes into planning for a community-driven site. We saw just how many considerations are needed to start accepting user submissions, using what I learned from my experience building Style Stage as an example.
Now that we’ve covered planning, let’s get to some...
72% of Investors Will Hold Bitcoin Even if Price Falls to $0
18.8.2020
A new poll finds that 72% of bitcoin investors are bullish about the cryptocurrency and will hold onto it even if the price somehow falls to zero. A total of 22,635 votes were gathered for this survey. Most Bitcoin Investors Would Hodl Regardless of the Price Twitter user Plan B, known for...
The New CSS-Tricks Video Intro by dina Amin
18.8.2020
You know we do video screencasts, right? It’s not, like, super regular, but I have done them for a long time, still like doing them, and plan to keep doing them. I publish them here, but you can subscribe over on YouTube as well.
I’ve had a couple of different custom video intro...
Ethereum Classic 51% Attack: Okex Crypto Exchange Suffers $5.6 Million Loss, Contemplates Delisting ETC
18.8.2020
Cryptocurrency exchange Okex reveals it suffered the $5.6 million loss as a result of the double-spend carried out by the attacker(s) in Ethereum Classic 51% attack. Okex says it fully absorbed the loss as per its user-protection policy while insisting that the attack did not cause any loss to...
Practical Use Cases for JavaScript’s closest() Method
12.8.2020
Have you ever had the problem of finding the parent of a DOM node in JavaScript, but aren’t sure how many levels you have to traverse up to get to it? Let’s look at this HTML for instance:
<div data-id="123"<buttonClick me</button</div
That’s pretty straightforward, right? Say...
Reviving Tourism and User Privacy Via Blockchain-Based ID Systems
6.8.2020
Blockchain could be key for ensuring user privacy in COVID-19 contact-tracing apps
European Bitcoin Exchange Hacked for $1.4 Million, Claims It Cannot Afford to Repay Users
4.8.2020
2gether, a Spanish cryptocurrency trading platform, has been hacked for about $1.4 million and company executives claim that they do not have the money to repay customers. Chief executive officer Ramon Ferraz Estrada said over the course of several tweets on Monday that the breach of July...
DeFi User Base Needs to Be More Decentralized, Says Former ConsenSys Exec
31.7.2020
A panel of known Ethereum investors and influencers discussed decentralization and the value of the total value locked in DeFi
Coda Protocol Touts User Growth One Year Into Testnet
30.7.2020
The O(1) Labs project thinks recursive zk-SNARKs are the key to more manageable blockchains
Cake DeFi: A One-Stop Shop for Generating Yield
29.7.2020
Cake DeFi, a platform that allows users to generate cash flow through pooled masternode staking and options lending, has created a platform with a clean user interface that allows anyone from the novice to the time-starved investor, to start earning interest on their cryptocurrency with a couple...
Crypto Hardware Wallet Firm Ledger Hacked, One Million Customer Emails Exposed
29.7.2020
Ledger said on Wednesday that its e-commerce database was hacked in late June, compromising about one million email addresses. No user funds were affected by the breach. In a blog post, the French bitcoin hardware wallet company revealed that contact and order information for customers was also...
Data Breach at Crypto Wallet Firm Ledger Exposes User's Personal Info
29.7.2020
Hardware wallet provider Ledger said its marketing database was breached between June and July
Ignorance and Greed Sustain Cryptocurrency Scams in Nigeria
28.7.2020
Nigeria is not only Africa’s biggest cryptocurrency market but is also a leading adopter of digital currencies globally. Official figures show the country is well ahead of fellow African countries. Citizens of the West African state use cryptocurrencies for cross border payments as well...
Robinhood, Under Cloud After User’s Suicide, Scraps UK Launch
21.7.2020
Stocks, ETFs and crypto investment platform Robinhood told prospective UK customers the launch in the country has been indefinitely postponed
After the Twitter Hack, We Need a User-Owned Internet More Than Ever
16.7.2020
Decentralized social media systems are still immature, but "as of yesterday, we can no longer claim they are a solution searching for a problem."
Tradeoffs and Shifting Complexity
16.7.2020
This is a masterclass from Dave:
After you hit the wall of unremovable complexity, any “advances” are a shell game, making tradeoffs that get passed down to the user … you get “advances” by shifting where the complexity lives.
You don’t get free reductions in complexity. In CSS land...
Yield Farming ‘Frenzy’ Didn’t Boost DeFi User Numbers
16.7.2020
A new report has found that so-called “yield farming” has taken the decentralized finance (DeFi) scene “by storm” of late – but has failed to bring large amounts of new people to the DeFi table, and has done little to help the “DeFi community grow beyond its current borders.”
These were...
IRS Sued by Ex-Coinbase User Over Seizure of Financial Records
15.7.2020
Jim Harper claims the tax collector violated his Fourth Amendment rights by seizing his crypto account records without obtaining a warrant