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Alcor Life Extension Foundation Now Accepts Bitcoin Cash Donations
15.8.2019
Alcor Life Extension Foundation has revealed the company is accepting bitcoin cash (BCH) donations. Alcor was convinced by Bitcoin.com’s executive chairman Roger Ver to add BCH acceptance, the same person who convinced Alcor to accept BTC payments via Bitpay back in 2014. The nonprofit...
Twitter Crypto Scammers Continue to Fly Under the Company’s Radar
12.8.2019
Over the last two years, cryptocurrency scamming on social media has been prevalent. In January 2019, it was reported that crypto impersonation scams on Twitter raked in millions in cryptocurrencies from people pretending to be well known blockchain personalities. Now a new form of deception can...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC’s Last Month’s Volatility May be Replicated For This Month As Well
10.8.2019
Bitcoin shows a price range of 13,000 USD and 9200 USD over the last 30 days. The next resistance it should seek is 11,985 USD. Over the last 30 days, Bitcoin has been through huge volatility. In the second week of July, Bitcoin got a huge cut in its value. Bitcoin has seen its value …
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Ethereum vs Bitcoin: ETH Tumbles Well Below $220, BTC Sees Support Near $11467.33
10.8.2019
Bitcoin price has been above $11700 since today morning Ethereum couldn’t follow the same steps as BTC, hovers around $215 Bitcoin remains in the buy phase while ETH slips under Selling pressure In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin has seen a low swing below $11500 and has recovered from there....
Indian Supreme Court Heard Crypto Case in Depth Today
8.8.2019
The Indian supreme court finally heard the crypto case today after postponing it several times. The court addressed the government’s crypto policy as well as the writ petitions challenging the banking restriction by the central bank. The latter was heard in some detail while the former...
New Liberty Dollar Founder Subpoenaed in the Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Lawsuit
7.8.2019
The ongoing Kleiman v. Wright case saw expert testimony on Monday from the plaintiff’s cryptography specialist, alongside the defendant Craig Wright’s witness, Nchain CTO Steve Shadders. The court participants discussed parsing through 27,000 bitcoin addresses as well...
Let’s Give Grunt Tasks the Marie Kondo Organization Treatment
6.8.2019
We live in an era of webpack and npm scripts. Good or bad, they took the lead for bundling and task running, along with bits of Rollup, JSPM and Gulp. But let's face it. Some of your older projects are still using good ol' Grunt. While it no longer glimmers as brightly, it does the job well...
More Signs the Next Big Financial Crisis May Begin in Germany
3.8.2019
Germany, the locomotive of Europe’s huge economy, is entering a difficult period, various indicators suggest. And when the Federal Republic sneezes, the Old Continent usually catches cold. This time, Germany may infect the rest of the world as well. An economic and financial crisis there...
PR: Uruguayan President Meets With the Founder of SCRY
2.8.2019
Uruguay, nicknamed South America’s Switzerland, has always taken a positive attitude towards the development of science and technology and information economy as well as science and technology services, thus becoming the first Latin American country to step into 5G information this year. Miss...
Weekly Platform News: Preventing Image Loads with the Picture Element, the Web We Want, Svg Styles Are Not Scoped
1.8.2019
In this week's week roundup of browser news, a trick for loading images conditionally using the picture element, your chance to tell bowser vendors about the web you want, and the styles applied to inline SVG elements are, well, not scoped only to that SVG.
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Indian Finance Minister Addresses Crypto Proposal – Industry Responds
31.7.2019
India’s finance minister has broken silence and talked about the crypto draft bill and report her department is examining which propose to ban cryptocurrencies. While she views the report as “very futuristic and well-thought-out,” the crypto industry sees it as flawed...
China Publishes New Rankings of 37 Crypto Projects
31.7.2019
China’s Center for Information and Industry Development has published its latest crypto rankings. Thirty-seven projects have been evaluated and ranked overall as well as in three separate categories. Some favorites have changed and two projects have been added to the previous list of projects...
Blockchain.com Launches High Speed Crypto Exchange for Retail Traders
30.7.2019
Cryptocurrency investors looking for a trading platform focused on high speed performance just got a brand new option, from a company they probably already know and trust. Popular wallet provider Blockchain.com is launching The Pit. Also Read: Blockchain.com Launches New Bitcoin Cash Block Explorer...
Indian Supreme Court Sets New Date to Hear Crypto Case
24.7.2019
The Indian supreme court has set a new date to hear the crypto case that was originally scheduled to be heard on July 23. The court is expected to address the writ petitions against the RBI banking restriction as well as the government’s report and the recently released draft crypto bill....
The Myth of Authority: Mnuchin Denies USD Is Used Criminally
22.7.2019
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has once again weighed in on bitcoin, claiming the U.S. dollar has not been used to finance “nefarious” activity on a recent episode of CNBC’s Squawk Box. Democratic House Representative Maxine Waters also dropped a tasty nugget of...
Hayek’s 1984: Rediscovered Footage Shows Austrian Economist Predicting Bitcoin
20.7.2019
Born in 1899 in Vienna, Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek is a legend of sorts in voluntaryist, libertarian, and crypto-economic circles. Freshly rediscovered video footage of the Austrian School philosopher and social theorist from 1984 is now making the rounds on crypto Twitter. In...
How I Created a Code Beautifier in Two Days
19.7.2019
I recently drew up a wireframe for a code beautifier. The next day, I decided to turn it into a real tool. The whole project took less than two days to complete.
I'd been thinking about building a new code beautifier for a while. The idea isn't unique, but every time I use someone else's tool,...
Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority Approves State-of-the-Art Tokenized Real Estate Investment Product
19.7.2019
CROWDLITOKEN AG pioneers and starts distribution of a digital bond – European retail investors benefit as well For the first time in Europe, the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority (FMA) has approved the offering prospectus for a tokenized real estate investment […]
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WDRL — Edition 269: Shaping up, Doing well while doing good, Single toggle buttons and the Illusion of control
19.7.2019
Hey,
it’s been already four weeks since the last edition. I’ve been on vacation for two weeks and around that, as many of you probably can relate, work is crazy. Before going off you have to finish things and when you come back, you’re overwhelmed by what happend during your absence. And...
Improving Video Accessibility with WebVTT
17.7.2019
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
- Tim Berners-Lee
Accessibility is an important element of web development, and with the ever-growing prevalence of video content, the necessity for captioned content is growing...