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Onchain Data Suggests Bitcoin Sell-Off Fueled by New Investors
20.3.2020
While the covid-19 outbreak has caused economic calamity, cryptocurrencies have regained some of the losses that devastated digital currency markets on March 12. A recent report published by the researchers at Coin Metrics notes the “crypto asset sell-off was driven by short-term...
Neumorphism and CSS
20.3.2020
Neumorphism (aka neomorphism) is a relatively new design trend and a term that’s gotten a good amount of buzz lately. It’s aesthetic is marked by minimal and real-looking UI that’s sort of a new take on skeuomorphism — hence the name. It got its name in a UX Collective post from December 2019,...
Long-Term Bitcoin Hodlers Buying the Dip
20.3.2020
Despite a brutal price crash last week, long-term bitcoin (BTC) “hodlers” are still not scared away, and instead appear to be using the lower prices as a buying opportunity, a new analysis showed.
According to the report, prepared by blockchain analysis firm Glassnode and published on Thursday,...
If You Don’t Trust Yourself, These Crypto Vaults Will Help You Hodl Safely
18.3.2020
Hodling in difficult times has historically proven to be a long-term winning strategy. Keeping your cryptocurrency in your own cold storage is by default a good idea as far as security is concerned. But if you don’t trust yourself to not lose a small hardware device or a piece of paper, then...
Blame Short-term Bitcoin Holders For the Price Crash Again
17.3.2020
Sometimes, the history indeed repeats itself. In the Cryptoverse, it's the short-term traders who have been driving the most recent sell-off. Again.
As reported in October 2019, crypto market analysis firm Coin Metrics found that the bitcoin (BTC) selling pressure at the time originated from...
Bitcoin Reacts to Fed’s 0% Rate Drop, Reserve Requirements Removed, $700B in Stimulus
16.3.2020
On Sunday, the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed the benchmark short-term rate by 100 basis points bringing it to zero. In addition to the rate cut, the Fed promised $700 billion in bond purchases and eliminated all reserve requirements for smaller financial institutions. However, the Fed’s rate...
Investors Can Hedge Long-Term Risk With New 2-Year Bitcoin Derivatives
13.3.2020
Quedex's new bitcoin derivatives contracts, which expire in December 2021, saw more than $5 million in volume last weekend
Litecoin’s Short-term Rebound Sees Hurdles
9.3.2020
Litecoin has faced a very strong meltdown over the last couple of days amid Coronavirus threats. It’s not just LTC that has gone through such a bearish market phase; the whole market, in fact, all the markets (including the major ones such as US and China) have broken down. Litecoin Price...
Bitcoin Halving Can Have Negative Short-Term Effect on BTC Price — Here’s Why
4.3.2020
Bitcoin tends to drop before and after a block-reward halving in the short term. Will this time be different?
What I Like About Craft CMS
3.3.2020
Looking at the CMS scene today, there are upwards of 150 options to choose from — and that’s not including whatever home-grown custom alternatives people might be running. The term “Content Management System” is broad and most site builders fit into the CMS model. Craft CMS, a relatively new choice...
‘Crypto Mugger’ Gets 10-year Jail Term + More News
2.3.2020
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.
Crime news
An attacker who assaulted Kyu-hoon "Spunky" Hwang, the famous South Korean crypto YouTuber, has been sentenced...
Shark Tank's Robert Herjavec Says Bitcoin’s Price Will ‘Quantuple’ Long-Term
27.2.2020
Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec said he sees Bitcoin rising significantly in price over the long term
The Bull and Bear Case for Investing in the Top 20 Cryptocurrencies
27.2.2020
Should you buy bitcoin or bitcoin cash? Does tezos have further room to grow? Is monero a long-term hold? There are no absolute answers to these questions and no crystal ball to determine which crypto will pull a 5x before the year’s out. Based on fundamentals alone, however, here are some...
China’s DCEP Unlikely to Impact Crypto Markets in the Long-term, eToro Analyst Says
17.2.2020
China is taking a great leap forward to develop a central bank digital currency, with more than 80 patents filed by the People’s Bank last week
2020 Stack
13.2.2020
In an article with the most clickbaity article ever, Joe Honton does a nice job of talking about the evolving landscape of web development. "Full-stack" perhaps had its day as a useful term, but since front-end development touches so many parts of the stack now, it's not a particularly useful term....
Crypto Exchange CEO Given Suspended Jail Term after Appeal Fails
11.2.2020
An appeals court in South Korea has upheld a guilty verdict for the CEO of crypto exchange CoinNest. He and two executives were handed a suspended jail sentence.
The exchange, once the country’s third-largest, shut down last year after its Kim Ik-hwan and two senior executives identified only...
What Are Altcoins and Why Are There Over 5,000 of Them?
10.2.2020
According to crypto market capitalization aggregators, there are more than 5,000 cryptocurrencies in existence today and over 20,000 different types of markets. BTC is the oldest and most known digital asset and most everything else has been typically referred to as an “altcoin.”...
Full Stack Panic
1.2.2020
A new podcast from Sean Fioritto inspired by Joel Califa's term "Full Stack Anxiety".
... the little voice in your head says ... “I should know all of this. Do I even know what I'm doing?” Why do web developers the world over feel like this?
There is an episode with Joel talking about it as well...
Analysts Optimistic as Bitcoin Price Breaks Key Long-Term Barrier
31.1.2020
After the price of bitcoin (BTC) crossed the technically important 200-day moving average line earlier this week, some analysts have come out with bullish calls for the number one digital asset.
Tom Lee of Fundstrat Global Advisors wrote in a private note to clients that the break of the 200-day...
Three High Profile Crypto Networks Face Reward Halvings This Spring
28.1.2020
This spring, three of the largest crypto networks, BTC, BCH, and BSV, will undergo their halvings around the same time for the first time in history. During the last halving in 2016, only one network existed, but now three protocols share the same consensus algorithm. Google Trends shows that...