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Powers On… Insider trading with crypto is targeted — Finally!
2.9.2022
Powers On... is a monthly opinion column from Marc Powers, who spent much of his 40-year legal career working with complex securities-related cases in the United States after a stint with the SEC. He is now an adjunct professor at Florida International University College of Law, where he teaches...
Ethereum Could Get Kicked Off Cloud Host That Powers 10% of Crypto Network
26.8.2022
Pay Your Traffic Fines or We’ll Confiscate Your Crypto – S Korean Police Pilot Grants Officers New Powers
17.8.2022
South Korean police have been given experimental new powers that allow them to seize crypto from people who refuse to pay fines – and have already taken tokens from a citizen who failed to pay a traffic fine....
Read More: Pay Your Traffic Fines or We’ll Confiscate Your Crypto – S Korean Police...
CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 1
15.8.2022
In a previous article, I looked at CSS Grid’s ability to create complex layouts using its auto-placement powers. I took that one step further in another article that added a zooming hover effect to images in a grid layout…
CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 1 originally published...
Thailand Plans to Tighten Crypto Oversight, Giving Central Bank More Powers to Regulate Digital Assets
10.8.2022
Thailand is reportedly preparing to amend its law on digital assets to tighten the oversight of the crypto sector and empower the Thai central bank to oversee the sector. “Right now, the central bank has no room to enter into the regulatory framework except for notifying that cryptos are...
Meta's NFT Outreach Powers 38% Rally in FLOW Token
5.8.2022
The dollar value of open positions in Binance-listed FLOW futures has increased by 345%, validating the price rally
Senators Stabenow, Boozman introduce crypto bill that extends CFTC's regulatory powers
3.8.2022
The bill defines digital commodities and requires registration of digital commodities platforms by the CFTC, with language that needs tightening
Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers
1.8.2022
When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows…
Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement...
Powers On… Summer musings after two particularly bad months in cryptoland
7.7.2022
Holy Hole in a Doughnut, Batman, Robin Is Teleporting In The New Gotham Knights Trailer
28.6.2022
Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released a new Robin-centric Gotham Knights trailer showing the caped crusader bam! pow! and kerpslatting goons while (checks notes) teleporting. Read more
DeFi Protocol Solend Passes Governance Vote to Reverse ‘Emergency Powers’
20.6.2022
Solana DeFi protocol Solend has passed a governance vote that will see voting times increased to one day
Solend’s Whale Liquidation Crisis Prompts Second Vote to Reverse ‘Emergency Powers’
20.6.2022
The Solana-based borrowing and lending service is going back to the ballot box
President of Panama Partially Vetoes Crypto Law Passed by National Assembly
18.6.2022
Laurentino Cortizo, president of Panama, has exercised his veto powers to make a series of objections to the recently approved cryptocurrency law. The observations of the president only touch on certain articles and do not affect the law in its entire scope. However, these articles of the bill will...
NFTICALLY Announces COMEARTH, the Leading E-Commerce Metaverse Ecosystem
9.6.2022
NFTICALLY, a Web3 E-Commerce SaaS platform that powers over 9,000 NFT Marketplaces & Storefronts globally, announces the world’s first e-commerce Metaverse ecosystem – COMEARTH. COMEARTH will allow brands to own virtual land and open storefronts, experience centers, or...
Powers On… When will we learn from recent history to protect our crypto and ourselves?
26.5.2022
UK Outlines Plans to Support Crypto Adoption, Create More Powers to Seize and Recover Digital Assets
11.5.2022
Delivering the Queen’s Speech, Prince Charles outlines the British government’s plans to support the safe adoption of cryptocurrencies and create “powers to more quickly and easily seize and recover crypto assets.” UK Government Plans to Support Crypto Adoption The U.K....
Powers On… It’s been a wonderful life (week): SEC Commissioner Peirce, Bitcoin 2022 and more
21.4.2022
Belarus Adopts Legal Procedure for Seizure of Illicit Cryptocurrency
21.4.2022
Implementing a recently signed presidential decree, the government of Belarus has introduced a procedure allowing the state to seize digital currency holdings. The move will grant law enforcement authorities in Minsk powers to seize crypto assets linked to illegal activities. Justice Ministry...
IMF Says Capital Control Powers Should Include Crypto
19.4.2022
The financial stability watchdog is the latest to worry digital assets are being used to evade sanctions on Russia
Crypto Popularity Could Pose Stability Risk, EU Watchdog Warns, as It Ponders New Powers
31.3.2022
Fintech firms could soon face the kind of caps on lending that banks face when markets like housing overheat, the European Systemic Risk Board said