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Crypto mining won’t survive another round of environmental legislation
29.1.2022
Blockchain mining’s massive carbon footprint is impossible to justify — and puts it in the crosshairs of global environmental legislation
Fancy CSS Borders Using Masks
26.1.2022
Have you ever tried to make CSS borders in a repeating zig-zag pattern? Like where a colored section of a website ends and another differently colored section begins — not with a straight line, but angled zig zags, rounded humps, …
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Yet another solo Bitcoin miner solved a valid block, earning a reward worth over $220,000
25.1.2022
Mining bitcoin without any help from a larger pool has become an increasingly-improbable feat over the last decade
Another Headache for Bitcoin Miners in Central Asia as Three Countries Hit With Blackouts
25.1.2022
Three of the Central Asian countries — Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan — have been hit by a power blackout after Kazakhstan’s North-South power line was disconnected due to “emergency imbalances.”...
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Context-Aware Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
21.1.2022
Another aspect of web components that we haven’t talked about yet is that a JavaScript function is called whenever a web component is added or removed from a page. These lifecycle callbacks can be used for many things, including making …
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SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Stresses Crypto Trading Platforms Must Be Regulated to Ensure Investor Protection
20.1.2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is focusing on bringing cryptocurrency exchanges “inside the investor protection remit,” Chairman Gary Gensler has revealed. “If the trading platforms don’t come into the regulated space, it’d be another year...
Another Solo Miner Wins 'Life-Changing' Sum, Rakes In USD 536K in Ethereum Block Reward
18.1.2022
Solo miners are off to a strong start this year. On Monday, a solo Ethereum (ETH) miner with an average hashrate capacity of 2.19 Giga hashes per second (GH/s) won a block race on the Ethereum blockchain and raked in a reward of ETH 168, currently worth just below USD 536,000. ...
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Wordle Brings Accidental Windfall To Another Dev, Who Gives It All To Charity
17.1.2022
You know how everything is awful? Well, wait! This isn’t! Wordle, the super-simple Mastermind-like word game that has taken over planet Earth, seems to create goodwill in its wake—the latest being that of Steven Cravotta, whose five-year-old app with the same name has found itself at the top of...
What Were the Hottest Front-End Tools in 2021?
17.1.2022
Another year has passed and once again I’ve had the privilege of going through the Web Tools Weekly newsletter archives from the past 12 months to hunt down the front-end tools that readers found to be the most interesting during …
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The Week In Games: Another Week, Another Co-Op Shooter
17.1.2022
Remember last week, when a Left 4 Dead-like shooter released? The Anacrusis. Well, guess what, this week sees another take on the very popular co-op shooter formula releasing for multiple platforms. This time it’s Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Extraction which looks... fine. Read more
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Taps New Lifetime High, BTC Price 20% Above Production Cost, Difficulty Nears ATH
15.1.2022
Bitcoin’s hashrate has been riding high again as the processing power tapped another lifetime high on January 15, 2022, reaching 219.68 exahash per second (EH/s). The new record follows the previous all-time high (ATH) on the first day of the year, when the network’s hashrate tapped...
Bitcoin & Crypto Mining Gets Another Latin American Hydroelectric Power Boost
12.1.2022
The future of Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto mining could involve a move away from coal and Asia – and toward hydroelectric energy and the Latin America region, with a Costa Rican power plant now feeding electricity to “hundreds” of mining rigs....
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Bitcoin and Ethereum Take Another Step Higher, FTM and ROSE Rally
12.1.2022
Bitcoin price started a steady increase above the USD 41,500 level. BTC even climbed above the USD 42,500 resistance and briefly spiked above USD 43,000. It is currently (04:21 UTC) consolidating near USD 42,700, with a strong support at USD 42,000.
Similarly, most major altcoins are also...
Naruto Gets Yet Another Sneaker Collab
11.1.2022
What do you think about when you think about Naruto? Ramen? Maybe! But surely at the top of the list is the way Naruto and his pals run. Cue the inevitable running shoe collaboration. Again. The way that Naruto characters run, leaning forward their arms at their outstretched behind them, is known...
Kosovo Seizes Hundreds of Crypto Mining Machines in Crackdown
9.1.2022
Police in Kosovo seized another batch of over 200 mining devices as part of raids that started on Thursday. The offensive against underground crypto farms was launched after authorities in Pristina banned the power-hungry minting of digital currencies amid an energy crisis in the country....
Maker Co-Founder Calls UST and MIM ‘Solid Ponzis’ That Will Go to Zero
8.1.2022
Rune Christensen, one of the founders of Maker, the decentralized autonomous organization behind the governance of stablecoin DAI, has spoken out against two competitors. He stated that UST, Terra’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, and MIM, another collateralized stablecoin, were “solid...
Another ETF Buys Bitcoin Futures, Cites Potential for ‘Significant’ Returns
6.1.2022
The US-listed exchange-traded fund (ETF) WisdomTree Managed Futures Strategy Fund (WTMF) has added an allocation of approximately 1.5% to bitcoin (BTC) futures, citing the potential for “significant” returns uncorrelated with the broader market.
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WeChat Pay Interoperability is Another Key Breakthrough for Digital Yuan Pilot
6.1.2022
Payment platform WeChat Pay began its own digital yuan journey, at the time when millions of Chinese citizens are getting their first taste of what life is like with a central bank digital currency (CBDC) – as citizens in some of the country's biggest cities began using a pilot version of a CBDC...
Solana hit with another network incident causing degraded performance
5.1.2022
Solana reportedly went offline for four hours on Jan. 4, however Solana.Status shows there have been no issues on the network
Destiny 2 Players Are Rescuing One Another From Impossible Mission
4.1.2022
There’s so much to do in Destiny 2 that it’s easy to get lost, especially for new players. That’s part of why Bungie’s loot shooter automatically throws players into new events once they go live, like this season’s Dares of Eternity activity. For some new players, however, it means their first...