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After Pundits Predicted Bitcoin’s Death for 11 Years, Barrels of Crude Oil Trade Below Zero
21.4.2020
Global markets had a historical day on Monday, as the price of oil dropped below zero and closed the day at -$36 per barrel of crude. The oil crash below zero has never happened in anyone’s lifetime and economists worldwide are uncertain about the future of the world’s financial system...
Bond Yields Nearing Zero Offer Support to Bitcoin - Analyst
21.4.2020
While some analysts now point out that bitcoin (BTC) is looking somewhat weak from a charting standpoint, others are painting a bullish picture for bitcoin, with lower bond yields and a weak stock market, leading investors to look for alternatives outside of the financial system.
Among the many...
Bitcoin Now Buys 600 Barrels of Crude Oil as Prices Fall Below Zero
20.4.2020
A collapse in oil prices is fuelling an interesting comparison with Bitcoin and other less volatile assets
How Zero Interest Rates in the US Will Impact Stablecoin Adoption
14.4.2020
Financial measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic might force the adoption of stablecoins worldwide
Zero Interest Rates Not The Only Driver For Stablecoin Demand
11.4.2020
The coronavirus has brought zero USD interest rates. And with zero or potentially even negative interest rates, it might also bring greater demand for stablecoins and for cryptocurrencies more generally.
Why? Because now there's no opportunity cost when it comes to holding USD-backed stablecoins...
Former Facebook Exec: BTC's Price is Either Going to Zero or Seven Figures
7.4.2020
A former Facebook executive believes Bitcoin’s price will either explode amid economic collapse or go to zero
Bitcoin has Zero Value & Holds Zero BackUp: Is It Really So?
3.4.2020
The title rightly points at the major controversial thing — the crux of Bitcoin and the value it holds in the portfolio for the institutional investors. We have heard many critics stating that cryptocurrencies hold no worth as long as investments are considered. Well, this is not just a layman...
Zero Interest Rates Could Hamper the Stablecoin Business
1.4.2020
Negative interest rates will force stablecoins to look at their fee structures and cut costs. Only the fittest will survive, says our columnist
WazirX Holds The Lowest USDT Withdrawal Fee; It’s ZERO
31.3.2020
Since a lot of users of WazirX have been requesting the reduction of the WazirX withdrawal fee, team WazirX has started working on fulfilling the public demand one step at a time. You asked for it and we delivered ???? WazirX now has the lowest $USDT withdrawal fee in India starting at ZERO...
USD Stablecoins Are Surging, But Zero Interest Rates Complicate Business Model
30.3.2020
With investors seeking safety in dollars, stablecoins have seen inflows of more than $2 billion since the crash. But zero interest rates threaten business revenue
Bitcoin Reacts to Fed’s 0% Rate Drop, Reserve Requirements Removed, $700B in Stimulus
16.3.2020
On Sunday, the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed the benchmark short-term rate by 100 basis points bringing it to zero. In addition to the rate cut, the Fed promised $700 billion in bond purchases and eliminated all reserve requirements for smaller financial institutions. However, the Fed’s rate...
Federal Reserve Cuts Reserve Ration to Zero
16.3.2020
Federal Reserve announced rate cuts in the reserve ratio for banks to 0%, and last this happened was in December of 2008, the year of a horrific crisis whose shocks the world continued to feel for years. The recent downfall in the market seems to be a strong indicator, and alarms across the world...
QE4 Begins: Fed Cuts Rates, Buys $700B in Bonds; Bitcoin Rallies 7.7%
15.3.2020
Effectively, this is “QE4,” the fourth major round of quantitative easing by the American central bank since the global financial crisis a little more than a decade ago
Bitcoin Mempool Briefly Drops to Zero on Blockchain.com
13.3.2020
Blockchain.com apparently experienced a system glitch as its Bitcoin mempool tracker was stuck at zero on this Friday 13th
What React Does (and Doesn’t Do)
5.3.2020
With a name as big as React, it's bound to cause some Stream-Crossing Confusion, as I like to call it. How do you center a <div> in React? Dave Ceddia:
React cares exactly zero about styling. Think of it as generating the barebones HTML. React will put elements on the page, but everything...
DeFi Can Now Choose to Run Trustless Zero-Knowledge Proofs
26.2.2020
Supersonic is a trustless zero-knowledge proof system that provides a new solution for DeFi platforms
South Korea’s Bithumb Launches Zero Fee Transfers to Global Platform
26.2.2020
Bithumb users can now instantly move Bitcoin and Ether to Bithumb Global with zero fees
Bitcoin in INR: Binance, Wazirx, Cashaa, Zebpay Announce New Offers for India
26.2.2020
Several cryptocurrency exchanges in India have recently stepped up their offerings as they wait for the supreme court’s decision on the RBI ban. Binance and Wazirx have made some improvements to their platforms, Cashaa is waving some fees, and Zebpay has announced zero fees on a trading pair...
The Unseen Performance Costs of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries
13.2.2020
This article is full of a bunch of data from Aggelos Arvanitakis. But lemme just focus on his final bit of advice:
Investigate whether a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library can work for your project. Sometimes we tend to prefer writing CSS in JS for the DX (developer experience) it offers, without...
Bitcoin Cash Community Begins Crafting Q&A Stack Exchange Site to Build Knowledge Base
7.2.2020
On February 6, Bitcoin Cash supporters were introduced to a new BCH-centric Stack Exchange community called bitcoincash.stackexchange.com. The goal of the Q&A site aims to build a “knowledge center” for Bitcoin Cash developers and individual researchers interested in learning about...