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Charles Hoskinson: 'I Don't Live in Vitalik's Mind'
2.6.2020
Charles Hoskinson laments Vitalik Buterin’s inability to engage in a meaningful discussion about Cardano, which in his opinion hurts Ethereum
Crypto Influencers Are Following the Beauty Playbook – Even if They Don’t Know It
1.6.2020
Here's how influencer marketing drives the crypto industry – especially for product sales like hardware wallets and debit cards
Global CSS options with custom properties
30.5.2020
With a preprocessor, like Sass, building a logical “do this or don’t” setting is fairly straightforward:
$option: false;
@mixin doThing {
@if $option {
do-thing: yep;
}
}
.el {
@include doThing;
}
Can we do that in native CSS with custom properties? Mark Otto shows...
First Mover: Bitcoin Rally Shows Traders Don’t Care That Goldman Hates Their Asset Class
29.5.2020
Traders can also gloat over how much better bitcoin is performing in 2020 than Goldman Sachs shares
Are You a Developer?
27.5.2020
“You’re not really a developer. Sooner or later people are going to realize you don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re just not good enough.” You’ve probably had thoughts like these at one point or another. You’ve never heard someone else tell you that you’re not a developer, but you’re still...
Problems Don’t Seem to End For Craig Wright; Now Justin Sun Accuses Him
27.5.2020
The self-proclaimed creator of bitcoin Craig Wright has claimed that he is the one who has invented Bitcoin. Previously he came up with a claim that the author of Bitcoin white paper fooled him. When he spoke at the London Blockchain Forum in the year 2019, he claimed that he would reveal the proof...
Cameron Winklevoss on Crypto Regulation: “Free-for-Alls Don’t Work”
26.5.2020
The Winklevoss twins believe crypto regulation and customer freedom can meet in the middle
Don’t Miss the Ghost Airdrop; John McAfee Gives Explanation
26.5.2020
John McAfee recently launched GHOST Coin, which is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. The coin is available for swapping on the McAfeeDEX with Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum. The transactions made with GHOST coin are verified with the help of the zero-knowledge proof, which means that transaction...
Eight Countries That Don’t Tax Your Bitcoin Gains
26.5.2020
As world governments push through legislation to levy taxes on capital gains from bitcoin (BTC) transactions, seeking to earn more from an asset class that frowns on regulatory oversight, there are still a few countries that remain pro-crypto, allowing investors to buy, sell or hold digital assets...
Don’t Buy Bitcoin, Says Wealth Exec as Lebanon Chooses BTC Over Fiat
22.5.2020
Bitcoin and gold are “too speculative” and it’s better for investors to trust the government to pay them back, claims Peter Mallouk
Avoid Heavy Babel Transformations by (Sometimes) Not Writing Modern JavaScript
20.5.2020
It’s hard to imagine writing production-ready JavaScript without a tool like Babel. It’s been an undisputed game-changer in making modern code accessible to a wide range of users. With this challenge largely out of the way, there’s not much holding us back from really leaning into...
User agents
19.5.2020
Jeremy beating the classic drum:
For web development, start with HTML, then CSS, then JavaScript (and don’t move on to JavaScript too quickly—really get to grips with HTML and CSS first).
And then…
That’s assuming you want to be a good well-rounded web developer. But it might be that...
Pseudo-elements in the Web Animations API
14.5.2020
To use the Web Animations API (e.g. el.animate()) you need a reference to a DOM element to target. So, how do you use it on pseudo-elements, which don’t really offer a direct reference? Dan Wilson covers a (newish?) part of the API itself:
const logo...
Most Transactions on XRP, EOS and Tezos Don't Transfer Any Value
13.5.2020
Most transactions on XRP, EOS, and XTZ do not transfer any value, according to a new research study
Accepting Payments (including Recurring Payments) on WordPress.com
12.5.2020
I’m a fan of building websites with the least amount of technical debt and things you have to be responsible for as possible for what you wanna do. Sometimes you take on this debt on purpose because you have to, but when you don’t, please don’t ;).
Let’s say you need...
prerender.js
9.5.2020
This is another player in the game of rendering the page of the link that you’re about to click on before you click it. It’s like getting a decent performance boost for extremely little effort.
Instant.page is another one, and I’ve been sufficiently convinced by its methodology...
Family Offices Likely to Invest in Bitcoin; Don't Count on Banks - Coinbase Analyst
4.5.2020
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Institutional investors are far from homogenous and while some have already invested in cryptoassets others may never do this, Nick Prince, Financial Strategy Analyst at major crypto exchange Coinbase, said. Family offices are the most likely to invest in crypto,...
Don Tapscott: Blockchain Enabled P2P Trust For First Time in History
3.5.2020
In the closing keynote for Virtual Blockchain Week, acclaimed author Don Tapscott argued DLT is the foundational technology of “the second digital era.”
Creating a Gauge in React
3.5.2020
You should really look at everything Amelia does, but I get extra excited about her interactive blog posts. Her latest about creating a gauge with SVG in React is unreal. Just the stuff about understanding viewBox is amazing and that’s like 10% of it.
Don’t miss her earlier posts like...
CoinTracking Launches Two Powerful, Free Plug-ins for Crypto Traders
1.5.2020
Though the top cryptocurrency exchanges offer charts, many don’t offer the analytical features crypto traders need to make good trading decisions. To help fill this need, CoinTracking has partnered with two companies that specialize in cryptocurrency analytics: IntoTheBlock and Cryptosheets....