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Crypto CEO Urges Savers to Own More Gold than Bitcoin
21.5.2020
Alex Mashinsky. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Kitco NEWS
Both bitcoin (BTC) and gold will benefit massively from the current “inflation of money,” the CEO of a major crypto company predicts, while also admitting that he believes people should still own more gold than bitcoin.
The advice...
Using BugHerd to Track Visual Feedback on Websites
19.5.2020
BugHerd is about collecting visual feedback for websites.
If you’re like me, you’re constantly looking at your own websites and you’re constantly critiquing them. I think that’s healthy. Nothing gets better if you look at your own work and consider it perfectly finished....
From Buenos Aires to Beirut – Covid-19 Excuse Restricts Millions of Citizens from Withdrawing Their Own Money
18.5.2020
The coronavirus and the government-induced lockdowns have wreaked havoc on the global economy and millions of people can’t access their own money. Reports from financial stricken areas like Venezuela, Argentina, and Lebanon show that citizens are being stopped from accessing their...
Most Crypto Users Think QuadrigaCX CEO Faked Own Death
13.5.2020
Viewers polled at Consensus: Distributed believe Gerald Cotten from the defunct crypto exchange QuadrigaCX may still be alive
Using CSS Masks to Create Jagged Edges
12.5.2020
I was working on a project that had this neat jagged edge along the bottom of a banner image.
Looking sharp… in more ways than one.
It’s something that made me think for a second and I learned something in the process! I thought I’d write up how I approached it so you can use it on your...
Binance Adds Its Own Leveraged Tokens After Removing FTX
11.5.2020
Binance recently added its own leveraged tokens, just weeks after removing similar FTX products from its exchange
I’m getting back to making videos
8.5.2020
It’s probably one part coronavirus, one part new-fancy-video setup, and one part “hey this is good for CodePen too,” but I’ve been doing more videos lately. It’s nice to be back in the swing of that for a minute. There’s something fun about coming back to an...
Working With MDX Custom Elements and Shortcodes
7.5.2020
MDX is a killer feature for things like blogs, slide decks and component documentation. It allows you to write Markdown without worrying about HTML elements, their formatting and placement while sprinkling in the magic of custom React components when necessary.
Let’s harness that magic and look...
Bittrex to Launch Own Token in June
6.5.2020
In a move likely aimed at regaining market share from competitors like Binance and Huobi, yet another crypto exchange is set to launch its own token.
Announced via Twitter on Tuesday, the Lichtenstein-based crypto exchange Bittrex Global said that its “Bittrex Global Exchange Token” is set to...
Angular + Jamstack! (Free Webinar)
5.5.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
It’s easy to think that working with Jamstack means working with some specific set of technologies. That’s how it’s traditionally been packaged for us. Think LAMP stack, where Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP are explicit tools and languages. or MEAN...
Google Profits off Impersonations of Banned Cryptocurrency Celebs and Companies
1.5.2020
Cryptocurrency companies are banned on Google but the platform is allowing phishing sites to impersonate them. London-based bitcoin exchange Coin Corner showed that a fraudulent site mimicking it is allowed on Google’s advertising platform though its own evidence-backed appeals of legitimacy...
Citizens Burn Banks, Print Their Own Money as Fiat Founders
30.4.2020
Source: a video screnshot, Youtube/FRANCE24 English
As conventional currencies struggle to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, citizens around the world are railing against traditional finance, and looking for new alternatives to cash.
In Europe, an Italian town has taken to minting its...
Co-founders of ICO Startup Admit to Stealing Business From Their Own Company
24.4.2020
An ICO startup has sued its co-founders for creating a clone that illegally sold the same products
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...
Pseudo-Randomly Adding Illustrations with CSS
17.4.2020
Between each post of Eric Meyer’s blog there’s this rather lovely illustration that can randomly be one of these five options:
Eric made each illustration into a separate background image then switches out that image with the nth-of-type CSS property, like this:
.entry:nth-of-type(2n+1)::before...
Akon on Africa and Akoin — ‘This Is Bulls**t: We Need Our Own Currency’
16.4.2020
A pocketful of Senegal’s currency proved worthless in France: and inspired one of the world’s agents of ‘change’ to take the problem of money in Africa into his own hands
BlockDown Unveils 3D World & Invites Guests to Create Their Own Avatars
14.4.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
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BlockDown 2020 has revealed that attendees will be able to login and create their very own bespoke virtual avatars from today's date. Attendees will be able to log in and customize their avatar including...
Some Bitcoin OTC Brokers Left Clients On Their Own Amid Turbulence
8.4.2020
Trading in the over-the-counter (OTC) market for cryptoassets may not be as easy as it seems these days, a new report suggests, claiming that some market makers simply left traders to themselves when they were needed the most.
According to the report, published by London-based cryptoasset liquidity...
ETH 2.0 Development Firm CasperLabs to Work on Its Own Blockchain
8.4.2020
The firm dedicated to developing Ethereum’s proof-of-stake implementation, CasperLabs, decided to launch its own blockchain
Virgin Galactic’s Chamath Palihapitiya: Bitcoin Could Go to $1 Million, Everybody Should Own Some
8.4.2020
Virgin Galactic Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya has shared his bitcoin investment strategy, predicting that bitcoin’s price could reach a million dollars. He further suggested that everybody should have 1% of their assets in bitcoin since it is “a fantastic hedge.” Also read:...