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FTC Warns of Romance Scams Luring People Into Bogus Cryptocurrency Investments
13.2.2022
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned about romance scams using cryptocurrency. Scammers use romance as a hook to lure people into bogus investments, especially crypto, the federal agency explained. “2021 numbers are nearly five times those reported in 2020, and more than...
Halo Infinite's Xbox Numbers Slip Behind Roblox
8.2.2022
Halo Infinite is slipping. As first reported by Forbes, 343 Industries’ popular shooter—the marquee Xbox game of this generation—has dropped out of the top five most-played games on Xbox, down from once upon a time holding fast in the top position.Read more
Building a newbie-friendly codebase
3.2.2022
Pedro Santos suggests:
Using naming conventions such that you can learn them once and apply them everywhere
Unidirectional data flows. Make it easy to follow the app flow.
No magic numbers. I’d add they are even worse in CSS
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Running a Steam sales promotion: real numbers & data
26.1.2022
Ever transparent goodness from our friends in Guildford
Hacker Hijacks Military Numbers Station, Proceeds To Rickroll Everyone
21.1.2022
Mysterious Russian shortwave radio station UVB-76, known as The Buzzer, normally broadcasts nothing but indecipherable beeps and numbers. But recently it has started to take music requests and post memes, after hackers seemingly took control of the channel for their own purposes. “Aboba” a voice...
Bitpay Statistics Show the Use of Bitcoin for Payments Is Dwindling
18.1.2022
The use of bitcoin as a digital currency for payments has gone down significantly, according to the numbers stemming from Bitpay, one of the leading cryptocurrency payments processors. While most of the purchases were made with bitcoin back in 2020, this dominance has dwindled, opening the space...
How Project Zomboid made.. 23x its normal sales numbers?!
12.1.2022
It's... not a small increase, is it?
Uno All Wild Is Uno Without All Those Pesky Numbers And Colors
7.1.2022
The point of the card game Uno is to discard your hand one card at a time by matching the color or number of the previously played card. In Mattel’s new take on the classic game, Uno All Wild, you need not worry about numbers or colors, because every single card is wild.Read more
Spain Reduces ATM Numbers to 2002 Levels as Country Moves to Digital Payments
4.1.2022
The number of ATMs in Spain has been progressively shrinking to levels the country saw in the year 2002. Reports from local media suggest these actions have been taken to reduce costs and to push payment and operation digitalization in the sector. The highest number of ATMs was registered in 2008...
Shiba Inu Project Reveals ‘Doggy DAO,’ Devs Say Phase 1 to Provide ‘Immediate Power to the SHIB Army’
1.1.2022
During the last half of 2021, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) have been popping out of the woodwork in mass numbers, airdropping tokens and creating governance systems for specific projects. Just before the end of the year on December 31, the developers behind the Shiba Inu crypto...
OVR and the Results of the Token Burning Program’s First Month
5.12.2021
OVR launched its new Token Burning Program on 1 November to make its own tokens more rare and valuable. The results of this first month of November saw a total of 246 thousand OVR burned. OVR and the Numbers From the Token Burning Program’s First Month OVR’s updated token economics...
Red Numbers, Crypto Centres, Wrong Hands and 20 Crypto Jokes
20.11.2021
This past week, the markets went red. Anyways....
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Console game discovery: 4 big trends in 2021
1.11.2021
Also: more specific Steam wishlist to sales numbers
Bitcoin ATMs Double This Year, Exceed 30,000 Globally
27.10.2021
Locations providing crypto ATM services have increased exponentially this year, according to data compiled by a major tracking site. Bitcoin ATMs have doubled in number since January and close to 80 countries now host teller machines exchanging cryptocurrencies with fiat money. Over 30,000 Bitcoin...
Central Bank of Brazil Reports Brazilians Have Bought More Than $4 Billion in Cryptocurrency This Year
18.10.2021
Brazilians have brought over $4 billion of cryptocurrencies to the country, according to numbers from the Central Bank of Brazil. The commercial asset balance report presented shows that Brazilians have consistently acquired over $350 million dollars of cryptocurrencies each month since January....
IMF Warns of Higher Inflation, But Central Banks Shouldn’t Tighten Yet
12.10.2021
said today. According to their new report, central banks around the world should “generally look through” the currently elevated inflation numbers, and not tighten monetary policy “until there is more clarity on the underlying price dynamics.”The recommendation from the organ
Comparing Google Analytics and Plausible Numbers
8.10.2021
I saw this blog post the other day: 58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics. That’s an enticing title to me. I’ve had Google Analytics on this site literally from the day I launched it. …
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Major Crypto Exchanges Cut Ties With Chinese Users After China’s Latest Crackdown on Cryptocurrency
27.9.2021
Major cryptocurrency exchanges are cutting ties with users in China following the latest crypto crackdown announcement by the Chinese government. Huobi has stopped letting new users in China sign up for its services while Binance has blocked account registrations using Chinese mobile phone numbers....
ES2021 Features
28.7.2021
Hemanth HM very succinctly shows off ES2021 features. Gosh it doesn’t feel like that long ago that all we could talk about is ES2015, and now that’s over a half-decade behind us. New things include “arbitrarily chuck underscores in numbers.” …
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Data Shows Decentralized Finance Took a Hit in Q2 but Is Still Booming
17.7.2021
While decentralized finance took a hit in Q2, stats still show there is an important movement in these protocols. Data taken from Messari’s Q2’21 defi review show that decentralized exchanges are busy settling important numbers. Decentralized Finance Bruised but Still Up...