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Bitcoin Rallies, Less Than USD 300 Left on the Road to USD 10,000
21.6.2019
The most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, rallied in the past 24 hours, reaching the new high of 2019 and getting closer to USD 10,000, which is considered as a crucial level.
At pixel time (04:40 UTC), bitcoin trades at c. USD 9,750, or almost 5% more than 24 hours ago and is up by 19% in...
Privacy Is Paramount: How KYC Makes Us All Less Free
19.6.2019
KYC (Know Your Customer) policies and endless private data collection, coupled with force-backed, violent legislation compromise the utility and ethics of crypto trading. An uncompromising stance on user privacy is critically important to crypto traders and peer-to-peer transaction. It’s...
New SLP Token Allows You to Transact in BTC But With BCH Fees
14.6.2019
There’s a new Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) based token called BTC2 that’s backed 1:1 with BTC. People can obtain the BTC2 token using cryptocurrency swapping application Sideshift.ai. With BTC2, you can essentially transact BTC, but with the same network fee (less than a penny)...
Venezuela Issues 50,000 Bolivar Bill Amid Persistent Hyperinflation
14.6.2019
Venezuelans are used to their currency costing less than the paper it’s printed on. Economic misfortunes and political upheaval place their country at the bottom of all inflation charts, year after year. The latest incarnation of the national fiat, Bolívar Soberano, has succumbed to...
Less Than 5% of Crypto Code Commits on Github Made By Women: Report
12.6.2019
Less than 5% of the code committed to the top 100 cryptocurrency projects on Github were contributed by women
Bitfinex's LEO Moves Through Crypto Ranks Faster than Binance Coin
5.6.2019
The competition among major exchange tokens is heating up, as UNUS SED LEO (LEO), the recently-issued Bitfinex exchange token, has reached USD 1.5 billion market capitalization in less than two weeks and is inching closer to the top 10 coins by market capitalization as it is already ranked as...
DigiByte Price Analysis: DGB Can Substantially Rise In The Upcoming Days With Less Aggravation Towards Bearish Zone
5.6.2019
DigiByte (DGB), along with all other altcoins, are gradually losing their worth to BTC because of its turbulent and erratic nature. In the upcoming days as well, the condition seems to be the same until the bearish time prevails. However, the extent of severity towards sensitivity will vary from...
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Encourages Less Caution Toward ETF Innovation
3.6.2019
The SEC should approach exchange-traded funds with less caution, according to commissioner Hester Peirce
Bitcoin Mining With Solar: Less Risky and More Profitable Than Selling to the Grid
31.5.2019
The energy used to mine bitcoin has long caused debate over whether it’s a wasteful process. As the arguments have rumbled on, some people have been focused on mining coins with renewable energy. On May 29, Christian Ander, the founder of Stockholm’s Btcx exchange, explained how instead...
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
30.5.2019
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30.
Websites have gotten a lot … fatter.
While
Bitcoin Gold (BTG) Price Analysis: Why There Is So Less Talk About Bitcoin Gold?
22.5.2019
The last update announced by BTG community is its update of Bitcoin Gold Core v0.17.1 version. Since then, there is no update regarding BTG. According to the crypto enthusiasts, BTG community is very inactive, and this can probably hamper its future prices. There is no noticeable price hike noticed...
Bitcoin History Part 13: The First Mining Pool
19.5.2019
The notion that anyone could solo mine bitcoin – on a CPU no less – seems positively quaint today. But in 2010, this method wasn’t just possible – it was the norm. With an exponentially lower hashrate, less competition and a 50 bitcoin block reward, there was enough pie...
Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Cleaning up Their Act
14.5.2019
Ask a dozen crypto traders for the reason behind the recent rally and you’ll get a dozen different theories. Bakkt futures, Microsoft building on Bitcoin and Whole Foods accepting crypto have all been cited as fueling the bull market that’s broken out. While these factors have certainly...
Electroneum (ETN) Price Analysis: Communities Of ETN Is Turning Barren Islands With Very Less Hope Of Future Bullish Trend
14.5.2019
With no strong support resistance, ETN is descending down. As there are no fundamental driving forces, it’s very hard to say if ETN can rise in the future. Moreover, everybody has their eye on BTC’s price, and thus, hike or fall of the same can adversely impact ETN in the future. ETN...
How to Patch Retry System into Super Mario ROMs
6.5.2019
I find myself watching less TV lately and much more time enjoying gamers stream on Twitch. While I too much PUBG, and enjoy watching people like Shroud and ChocoTaco hit bangers, I get more enjoyment out of Grand Poo Bear, Barbarian, and others play ultra difficult Super Mario World ROM hacks....
That Time I Tried Browsing the Web Without CSS
24.4.2019
CSS is what gives every website its design. Websites sure aren’t very fun and friendly without it! I’ve read about somebody going a week without JavaScript and how the experience resulted in websites that were faster, though certain aspects of them would not function as expected.
But CSS. Turning...
An Event Apart Boston is Coming. Save Now!
18.4.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
An Event Apart Boston is almost here! We're talking, like, less than a month away. If you've been holding off from registering, this might be your last chance because time and seating are both limited. Besides, we're talking about three days of pure knowledge-dropping...
Clever code
17.4.2019
This week, Chris Ferdinandi examined a clever JavaScript snippet, one that's written creatively with new syntax features, but is perhaps less readable and performant. It's a quick read, but his callout of our industry's fixation on cleverness is worth... calling out:
...we’ve become obsessed as...
The Serif Tax
9.4.2019
Fonts are vector. Vector art with more points makes for larger files than vector art with fewer points. Custom fonts are downloaded. So, fonts with less points in their vector art are smaller. That's the theory anyway. Shall we see if there is any merit to it?
Open Sans (top) and Garamond...
Who has the fastest website in F1?
2.4.2019
Jake Archibald looks at the websites of Formula One race teams and rates their performance, carefully examining their images and digging into the waterfall of assets for each site:
Trying to use a site while on poor connectivity is massively frustrating, so anything sites can do to make it less...