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EU politician reveals her conversion to crypto — Eva Kaili
3.2.2021
"Lots of my friends lost their savings because banks suddenly shut down and nobody would guarantee their life savings. So this was like quite a shock.”
Soaring Sell Orders Contrast Sharply with Bitcoin’s Renewed Bull Run
2.2.2021
Alongside the cryptocurrency’s meteoric climb over the back half of 2020 and early 2021, a curious phenomenon has unfolded; heightened profit-taking and conversion to fiat currencies. Data collected by Simplex, a fiat-crypto gateway, underscores this seemingly paradoxical development....
Break a forEach Loop with JavaScript
22.12.2020
I’ve written a number of blog posts about JavaScript tricks: Promise tricks, type conversion tricks, spread tricks, and a host of other JavaScript tricks. I recently ran into another JavaScript trick that blew my mind: how to break a forEach loop. To break the forEach loop at any point,...
Restaurant Chain That Converted Cash Reserves Into Bitcoin Says Gold’s Safe Haven Days Are Numbered
11.12.2020
A great number of companies have been converting cash reserves into bitcoin during the last few months. At the end of August, the Mediterranean restaurant chain Tahini’s announced the Canadian company converted all of their cash reserves into bitcoin. On Friday, Tahini’s tweeted about...
Blockstack Token's Conversion to Non-Securities Would be 'Unprecedented'
8.12.2020
Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Bloomberg Technology
After the launch of Stacks Blockchain 2.0, stacks tokens (STX) will no longer be treated as a security in the US, finally opening the doors to US investors, said the company's co-founder - with an expert calling this a major deal for...
Blockchain.com Launches Full Turkish Lira Banking Integration as a Native Payment Gateway for Turkey
30.1.2020
Blockchain.com has launched a full banking integration for Turkish Lira (TRY) to create a native payment gateway for users to deposit and withdraw Lira on its trading platform. With this development users in Turkey no longer have to incur high fees and conversion rates from third-party payment...
Optimizing Images for Users with Slow Network Speeds
7.11.2019
For every website, page load time is a critical factor that can make or break the business. Thanks to the better user experience that comes with a fast-loading webpage, those who focus on page load optimization enjoy better conversion rates, better SEO, better retention, and lower bounce rates.
And...
Decentralized Storage Startup Storj to End Token Conversion Program
5.11.2019
Remaining holders of Storj Labs' early SJCX token need to act soon to avoid losing their investments
ImageKit.io: Image Optimization That Plugs Into Your Infrastructure
24.10.2019
Images are the most efficient means to showcase a product or service on a website. They make up for most of the visual content on our website.
But, the more images a webpage has, the more bandwidth it consumes, affecting the page load speed - a raging factor having a significant impact on not just...
Crypto Debit Cards You Can Use Now Plus a Few to Expect Soon
9.6.2019
Debit cards tied to cryptocurrency wallets provide an opportunity to spend your digital coins almost anywhere fiat money is accepted. It’s a working solution, at least until wider adoption comes around. That’s why they’ve become so popular in the crypto community. Challenges...
IP Geolocation API
4.6.2019
Detecting geolocation information from your user provides you a massive advantage: improved conversion, better segmenting and analytics, and providing more relevant content. There are numerous paid services which will provide geolocation info but they’re oftentimes too costly or short...
PR: Blucon Launches BCH Transportation Card
31.5.2019
Blucon is excited to announce the launch of their transportation card that supports BCH. The system will work by integrating the EXO-Platform, to allow the instant conversion of cryptocurrency into spendable cash. Blucon has leveraged on its existing business relationships between cryptocurrency...
Type Conversion with JavaScript Arrays
7.5.2019
JavaScript’s loose nature allows developers to employ amazing tricks to do just about anything you’d like. I’ve detailed how you can filter falsy values in arrays using a filter(Boolean) trick, but reader David Hibshman shared another trick for typecasting array values the same...
AI-Based Video Preview from Cloudinary (Sponsored)
8.4.2019
The early days of video on the web weren’t great. We started with custom browser plugins and codecs, then moved to Flash, and eventually we found our way HTML <video>. Once we solved the technology problem, we started using more video for content and advertising. The next problem...
Exchange Rates and Currency Conversion with fixer.io (Sponsored)
22.3.2018
My most stressful tasks as a coder have always revolved around money. Whether you’re coding a site for a client, your own business, or your employer, you want to be damn sure that any handling of currency is accurate, secure, and localized. We always want our code to work but when...