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Fake SpaceX YouTube Channels Scam Victims Out of $150K in BTC
11.6.2020
Scammers have conned thousands of YouTube viewers into sending them a total of 15.31 BTC with the old ‘free giveaway’ trick
Simplified Blockchain Tech Is Helping Bring Banks out of the Stone Age
10.6.2020
An archaic blockchain technology helps a technology company convince U.S. bank regulators that the transactions are free of money laundering
Creative Background Patterns Using Gradients, CSS Shapes, and Even Emojis
10.6.2020
You can create stripes in CSS. That’s all I thought about in terms of CSS background patterns for a long time. There’s nothing wrong with stripes; stripes are cool. They can be customized into wide and narrow bands, criss-crossed into a checked pattern, and played with in other ways using the idea...
Finance and the Real Economy Can’t Stay Out of Sync Forever
21.5.2020
While Main Street is shut down, the financial world keeps moving as quickly as ever. That's not a sustainable situation, says our columnist
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...
R3 Corda Partners With Kaleido After Ethereum Startup Spins Out of ConsenSys
12.5.2020
R3, the company behind the Corda blockchain, is edging ever closer to Ethereum, with news of a partnership with enterprise software startup Kaleido
‘Ridiculous’ Registration Fees Force Dutch Bitcoin Exchange out of Business
6.5.2020
A Dutch Bitcoin (BTC) exchange has become one of the first casualties of a new regulatory procedure that requires many of the nation’s crypto-related companies to register with the central bank or close down.
The central bank, the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), has set a May 18 deadline...
My Visual Studio Code Setup: Extensions and Themes
22.4.2020
Matthias Ott’s posted his VS Code setup. I find lists like this (I rounded up some recent updates of my own) irresistible, probably because, like y’all, I spend an awful lot of time in VS Code and wanna make sure I’m getting the most out of it.
Things from the list that stood...
Making Money on Lockdown: 5 Effortless Ways to Earn Cryptocurrencies Online
20.4.2020
The various government responses to the coronavirus caused a lot of havoc across the global economy and millions of people are now out of work. A number of nation states have not lifted the lockdowns and no one’s really sure when the slew of shutdown industries will open again. While people...
CFTC Charges Florida Resident With Defrauding Crypto Investors Out of $1.6M
16.4.2020
The CFTC alleged Florida resident Alan Friedland defrauded investors out of $1.6 million, promising returns through his “Compcoin” token and an algorithmic trading software which never materialized
How Imposters Scam Entrepreneurs Out of Their Crypto
8.4.2020
It's a new twist on an old scam: Someone pretending to represent a major media company will approach a small business offering to write about them… for a price, this time in crypto
Major Chinese Mining Pool Drops out of BTC Mining Race, Looking to Altcoins
6.4.2020
One of the top Chinese pools has dropped out of BTC mining race due to Bitcoin price pressure
Election App Voatz Just Got Kicked Out of a Major Bug Bounty Program
30.3.2020
Bug bounty platform HackerOne severed ties with Medici Ventures-backed Voatz, the blockchain-based mobile voting app for breach of partnership standards
How They Fit Together: Transform, Translate, Rotate, Scale, and Offset
30.3.2020
Firefox 72 was first out of the gate with "independent transforms." That is, instead of having to combine transforms together, like:
.el {
transform: rotate(10deg) scale(0.95) translate(10px, 10px);
}
...we can do:
.el {
rotate: 10deg;
scale: 0.95;
translate: 10px 10px;
}
That's extremely...
Printing Money from Thin Air – How the Fed Reduces Purchasing Power and Makes You Poorer
26.3.2020
Unless you have your head in the sand, you’ve probably realized that governments and central banks can print money out of thin air and in unlimited amounts. The United States and the Federal Reserve have been creating money from nothing for years because they had exhausted all their monetary...
Here’s How to Order Food From Your Home Using Cryptocurrency
26.3.2020
Staying home during the coronavirus epidemic reduces the risk of getting infected with the deadly covid-19. The disease, which has already claimed the lives of over 20,000 people globally, spreads through human contact. Food is one of the few basic necessities that can regularly get you out of your...
How to Buy Weed With Bitcoin
25.3.2020
So you’ve got a little bitcoin to your name but are all out of weed. What you gonna do? Well, if you’re fortunate enough to live in a region where marijuana is legal, there are ways to exchange the two. While if you don’t inhabit such an enlightened area, rumor has it there...
Countdown to Block Reward Reduction – 18 Days Until Bitcoin Cash Halving
20.3.2020
In 18 days, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network will see its next halving as the block reward will decrease from 12.5 to 6.25 coins on or around April 8, 2020. BCH will be the first blockchain out of the top three SHA256 networks to halve as BSV will see a reward reduction two days after […]
The...
The US Dollar Could Fall Out of Favor If It Doesn't Go Digital, ING Economist Says
5.3.2020
Facebook’s Libra, as well as CBDCs, could lead to changes in currency usage preferences, and ING economist explained
How to Customize the WooCommerce Cart Page on a WordPress Site
28.2.2020
A standard e-commerce site has a few common pages. There are product pages, shop pages that list products, and let’s not forget pages for the user account, checkout flow and cart.
WooCommerce makes it a trivial task to set these up on a WordPress site because it provides templates for them...