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Decentralizing the Web Is More Necessary Than Ever
12.12.2019
The bear market gives developers time and space to do what they do best
Basel Committee Initiates Discussion on Crypto + More News
12.12.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Regulation news
A global banking regulator says it will listen to input on a new cryptocurrency discussion paper. Per a press...
Dip Your Toes Into Hardware With WebMIDI
12.12.2019
Did you know there is a well-supported browser API that allows you to interface with interesting and even custom-built hardware using a mature protocol that predates the web? Let me introduce you to MIDI and the WebMIDI API and show you how it presents a unique opportunity for front-end developers...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Sliding, Primed For More Losses
12.12.2019
In the past few sessions, bitcoin price remained in a bearish zone and settled below the USD 7,350 and USD 7,250 support levels. BTC/USD even broke the USD 7,200 pivot area and it seems like it could attempt a break below the USD 7,000 support area.
Moreover, there were bearish moves in most major...
SLP Token Market Cap Surpasses $50 Million
12.12.2019
For over a year now, the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) token universe has grown quite vast. There are now more than 6,000 SLP tokens in existence and a number of SLP tokens have seen price discovery. Moreover, tokens listed on our SLP market capitalization aggregator show in the last two months...
AI Research Reveals Crypto Leaders Are Angry and Depressed
11.12.2019
An artificial intelligence-driven personality research on the characteristics of crypto industry leaders such as Vitalik Buterin, Justin Sun, and Brian Armstrong found that intellect, liberalism, and cautiousness are their top personality traits. And a comparison with general tech titans showed...
How I’ve Improved as a Web Developer (and a Person) in 2019
11.12.2019
We’re sliding into the roaring twenties of the twenty-first century (cue Jazz music 🎷). It’s important that you and I, as responsible people, follow the tradition of looking back on the past year and reflect on the things that went right and wrong in the hopes of becoming the best version...
New Crypto Rules in New York + More News
11.12.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Regulation news
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued their 'Proposed Guidance Regarding Adoption or Listing...
Freak Flags
11.12.2019
I don't see image sprites used that much anymore, but it's still a good technique for reducing downloaded decorative image assets when you have multiple on a page. The big idea is combining all the graphics into one and then shifting around the size and background-position to reveal one at...
Just Sharing My Gulpfile
11.12.2019
Seemingly out of the blue, the Gulp processing I had set up for this site started to have a race condition. I'd run my watch command, change some CSS, and the processing would sometimes leave behind some extra files that were meant to be cleaned up during the processing. Like the cleanup tasks...
Making a Better Custom Select Element
11.12.2019
We just covered The Current State of Styling Selects in 2019, but we didn't get nearly as far and fancy as Julie Grundy gets here. There is a decent chunk of JavaScript that powers it, so I'm still very much eyeballing browsers' recent interest in giving us more powerful selects in (presumably)...
WordPress.com: One CMS, Infinite Possibilities
11.12.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Have you ever looked at a site and knew exactly what CMS powers it? You might see a distinctive design aesthetic that gives it away. Or maybe it's something even less obvious and even harder to articulate, but you know it when you see it.
That seems true with just about...
Ripple Launches Xpring.io with Wallet and Brings More Updates
11.12.2019
Ripple is still on the role with developments it seems, as the California-based blockchain company now announced a developer portal, as well as a number of updates and additions to their to Xpring, XRP Ledger, Interledger, and their blog.
Ripple states that this is a part of their effort to build...
Accused Onecoin Co-Conspirators Fight Criminal Charges in the US
10.12.2019
The Onecoin scam, a multi-level Ponzi scheme that acquired $4 billion from investors has been falling apart at the seams. Criminal proceedings have started against Onecoin leaders and one alleged associate who was found guilty of laundering $400 million has asked a New York judge for more time...
How to Increase Womens (And Men's) Interest in Bitcoin + More News
10.12.2019
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Adoption news
92% of surveyed women said that they would be more likely to invest if Bitcoin had a longer...
Quoting in HTML: Quotations, Citations, and Blockquotes
10.12.2019
It’s all too common to see the incorrect HTML used for quotes in markup. In this article, let’s dig into all this, looking at different situations and different HTML tags to handle those situations.
There are three major HTML elements involved...
Stellar (XLM) Starts the Day on a Bearish Note; Drops by More Than 1%
10.12.2019
Stellar has recently started an uptrend; may cross the 38.20% Fib level The bullish trendline has just been breached with a bearish candle XLM coin seems to have a support level at $0.0536; rebound lacks momentum Technicals look bearish while the coin carries selling pressure Yesterday, in...
Ripple (XRP) Price Declines Over a Day by More Than 3%
10.12.2019
Ripple price is down by more than 3%; consolidates today The coin is trading below the 23.60% Fib level; recently formed bullish candles The 5-day chart looks positive; however, the XRP coin has corrected down after the notable surge The coin has formed a bearish trendline over the last couple...
How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
9.12.2019
Dylan Paulus:
Facebook actually hides 'dummy' DOM nodes between the 'Sponsored' text. These values are entirely random characters, with a random number of DOM nodes between them. Invisible characters. At this point our CSS ad blocker is completely broken. There is no way for us to possibly code...
Nexo Now Offers Bitcoin Cash Instant Crypto Credit Lines
9.12.2019
Bitcoin Cash community members are able to borrow against their favorite digital asset in more than 40 fiat currencies across more than 200 jurisdictions. This is thanks to Nexo which now offers BCH Instant Crypto Credit Lines with one of the lowest annual percentage rates in the industry. Also...