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BTC Can Be Corrupted As It Is Made By Man; Unlike Gold Which Is Created By God: Gabelli Gold Funds
6.6.2019
The debate around Bitcoin and Gold is not new. Several pleas are presented for either side. Recently, in an interview, Chris Mancini, the analyst at Gabelli Gold Funds, shared his viewpoint about Gold VS Bitcoin. As per the analyst, the value of the traditional precious metal is in the uniqueness...
Stablecoins Made Easy With TrueUSD And Binance Partnership
5.6.2019
For the first time ever in the crypto history, the moving in and moving out, as well as the redemption of the stablecoin has been made so easy on Binance. Yesterday, TrustToken recently announced on Twitter that it is exciting to partner with Binance. The aim of this partnership is to make...
Detect if Element is a Web Component
5.6.2019
I’ve advocated for web components since before they became a spec, mostly inspired by the Dojo Toolkit’s dijit framework. Empowering first class JavaScript widgets, as opposed to a mess of DIVs and templates, always made the most sense. Now that web components exist, and awesome...
Zcash Price Analysis: The Recent Delisting From BitOasis Made A Little Impact on Zcash (ZEC)
31.5.2019
Based on the Zerocoin protocol, Zcash (ZEC) enables transactions to be transparent or shielded through a zero-knowledge proof. If you look at the chart, there was a slight dip after the delisting from the popular crypto exchange, but soon recovered its market grip. ZEC Price Statistics: Today,...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: After Reaching The 52-week High Price; What Made BTC Fall?
31.5.2019
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) touched a high of USD 9,008.31 on 30th May 2019. It was the highest price of Bitcoin (BTC) noted in 52 weeks. Presently, Bitcoin is trading at USD 8257. The price chart is reflecting the probability of a bearish trend in the coming days. Today, the total market...
The Evolution of Cryptocurrency Payments
22.5.2019
On January 12, 2009, the first ever Bitcoin transaction between the still-elusive Satoshi Nakamoto and the late cryptocurrency pioneer Hal Finney was made. As Finney himself described in a forum post he made on March 2014, Nakamoto had sent him […]
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Elipay Celebrates the First of 100s of Crypto-Accepting Merchants in Croatia
21.5.2019
On May 20, Eligma showed off its Elipay service, a crypto payment processing system that allows people to pay for products and services with cryptocurrencies at over 300 retailers in the region. The grand opening of Elipay’s Croatian launch started with the first transaction made...
My Bank Account Was Frozen for Bitcoin – And It Only Made Me Love Crypto More
19.5.2019
The guy who coined the term "hodl" has a real bitcoin story that only made his interest in the technology stronger
Firm Claims it Made USD 73,000 in Two Months of Staking ATOM
16.5.2019
UK-based digital asset investment company KR1 claims to have realized USD 73,671 revenue from “staking yields” of the Cosmos Network since its launch on the 14 March 2019. In two months, the company generated 15,463 ATOM, which was sold at an average price of USD 4.76 per ATOM, according to KR1....
Bitcoin (BTC) Price has a Cushy Movement Crossing the Value $6700 from $6500 in a Single Day
11.5.2019
Bitcoin price is moving in full inducement after the $6000 landmark; it was just with today’s daybreak that the light broke through all the resistances and crossed a $6500 price level. Important to highlight, within a few hours of Bitcoin value crossing $6500, it was priced at above $6700 leaving...
Deepdotweb Duo Indicted for Linking to Darknet Markets
10.5.2019
Federal indictments unsealed on May 8 have revealed further details of the case against Deepdotweb’s operators. Tal Prihar, 37, an Israeli citizen residing in Brazil, and Michael Phan, 34, an Israeli in Tel Aviv, have technically been charged with money laundering. The feds have made it very...
Why Cryptocurrency Investors Are Renouncing Their US Citizenship
9.5.2019
Andrew Henderson is the founder of Nomad Capitalist, a company which helps people from around the world move to different countries while minimizing their tax obligations. In recent years the company has created plans for dozens of people who made their wealth from the cryptocurrency sector...
A responsive grid layout with no media queries
9.5.2019
Andy Bell made a really cool demo that shows us how to create a responsive grid layout without any media queries at all. It happens to look like this when you change the size of the browser window:
I think this is a wonderful layout technique that’s just 6 lines (!) of CSS.
.auto-grid...
Moving from Gulp to Parcel
25.4.2019
Ben Frain just made some notes about the switch from Gulp to Parcel, a relatively new "web application bundler" which, from a quick look at things, is similar to webpack but without all the hassle of setting things up. One of the things I’ve always disliked about webpack is that you kinda have...
Faking env() to Use it Now
18.4.2019
There is already an env() function in CSS, but it kinda came out of nowhere as an Apple thing for dealing with "The Notch" but it has made it's way to be a draft spec. The point will be for UAs or authors to declare variables that cannot be changed. Global const for CSS, sorta.
That spec doesn't...
Clever code
17.4.2019
This week, Chris Ferdinandi examined a clever JavaScript snippet, one that's written creatively with new syntax features, but is perhaps less readable and performant. It's a quick read, but his callout of our industry's fixation on cleverness is worth... calling out:
...we’ve become obsessed as...
Native Lazy Loading
9.4.2019
IntersectionObserver has made lazy loading a lot easier and more efficient than it used to be, but to do it really right you still gotta remove the src and such, which is cumbersome. It's definitely not as easy as:
<img src="celebration.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="..." />
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Undefined: The Third Boolean Value
5.4.2019
I wanted to implement a notification message in one of my projects, similar to what you’d see in Google Docs while a document is saving. In other words, a message shows up indicating that the document is saving every time a change is made. Then, once the changes are saved, the message becomes: “All...
Responsible JavaScript
3.4.2019
We just made a note about this article by Jeremy Wagner in our newsletter but it’s so good that I think it’s worth linking to again as Jeremy writes about how our obsession with JavaScript can lead to accessibility and performance issues:
What we tend to forget is that the environment websites...
TheWestTour: Ice, Products, and 2G
26.3.2019
“Do people speak English in Africa?”, “Do high school students have access to smartphones and computers?” These series of challenging questions made me know I was amongst the right crowd and the lo