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Crypto Lending: The Ultimate Killer App?
27.6.2020
Using digital assets to earn yields and borrow capital became possible thanks to crypto lending, one of the fastest-growing sectors in the crypto ecosystem
Bitcoin Is Blockchain’s ‘Killer App,’ But Blockchain Is Catching Up
21.6.2020
The bitcoin (BTC) vs. blockchain debate is almost as old as BTC itself. For years now, bitcoin maximalists have argued that blockchain without a cryptocurrency is mostly a slow database, while blockchain advocates have argued that bitcoin only scratches the surface of what decentralized ledgers...
First Mover: Cardano’s No Ethereum Killer Yet, But It’s Winning in Crypto Markets
15.6.2020
Cardano's ADA token is racking up impressive gains this year, possibly over speculation the network's early adoption of a proof-of-stake blockchain might help it win a growing share of the DeFi space
Immunity Passports May Be Blockchain's Killer-App, Says Overstock CEO
22.5.2020
Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson believes that COVID-19 Immunity Passports may be the killer-app to bring blockchain tech out of Bitcoin’s shadow
Blockchain Bites: Will Enterprise Blockchain Find a ‘Killer App’ or Be Killed?
14.5.2020
IBM, We.Trade and Microsoft executives spoke about the trials and tribulations of capitalizing on enterprise-grade blockchain at Consensus: Distributed
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...
'Serial Killer' Bitcoin to Explode This Year - Pantera’s Morehead
13.4.2020
Dan Morehead. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Bloomberg Markets and Finance
Bitcoin (BTC) is a “serial killer” correlated with traditional risk assets only “when the world freaks out,” and the crypto markets are about to “explode higher,” according to one of the most prominent investors in...
Thursday’s Market Madness Strained Ethereum’s Killer App: DeFi
13.3.2020
So many people were trying to use the Ethereum blockchain during Thursday’s market meltdown that many applications simply stopped working as intended
IOTA Network Still Down: How the Next Bitcoin Killer Screeched to a Halt
14.2.2020
On February 13, the IOTA network came to a screeching halt and the IOTA Foundation reports that $1.6 million worth of the native currency was stolen. The following day, the IOTA network status page still shows the mainnet is “not operational” and the development team has found...
Is Bitcoin New Ethereum Killer?
2.2.2020
Source: iStock/Alexander Ließ
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
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Looking for the next Bitcoin (BTC, Rated...
Why User Experience Is Crypto’s True ‘Killer App’
21.1.2020
There’s been a lot of buzz in the space recently about the importance of user experience. Kim Dotcom’s proclamation that “Mass utility is going to lead to mass adoption,” speaks to this. Peter Schiff’s bitcoin wallet fiasco, CZ’s claim that centralized exchanges...
Narrative Watch: The Hunt for Crypto’s Killer App
13.1.2020
As a Brooklyn Nets player tokenizes his contract, are income share agreements poised to break out as one of crypto’s killer apps?
ETH Killer, Private Messaging and Change in BTC - 4 Crypto Experiments
12.11.2019
From coin killers, over private messages, to stacking sats. The Cryptoverse rests on innovation and innovative technology. It’s no wonder then that we often see interesting new gadgets or digital solutions to existing problems, or the problems we didn’t even know exist. Occasionally, we’re even...
Report Says That World at Risk Due to Amazon and Microsoft’s Killer AI
22.8.2019
Over the past decades, it has been seen that the biggest tech companies in the world coming up with revolutionary technologies that eventually find use in a wide range of industries. Artificial intelligence or AI is the latest frontier as far as technology and naturally, some of the tech giants...
Bitcoin’s Youngest Millionaire Launches Crypto-Based ‘Libra Killer’
20.8.2019
Crypto payment app Metal adds first non-native cryptocurrencies
Facebook Is a Threat to Governments Not Crypto
20.6.2019
The moment Facebook released the whitepaper for its planned Libra coin, social media was flooded with claims about Zuckerberg’s new drive to take over the cryptocurrency market, with some even calling it a Bitcoin killer. However, looking at the actual details of the plan, it has little to...
Crypto Pioneer David Chaum: Pseudonymous Messaging With Integrated Payments Is Blockchain’s Killer App
27.5.2019
E-cash inventor David Chaum says he believes the real killer app for blockchain and cryptocurrencies will be privacy-oriented messaging systems integrated with payments
Facebook Globalcoin: Bitcoin Killer or Bitcoin Multiplier?
25.5.2019
It may sound like a 2014-era shitcoin, but Globalcoin is this year’s most anticipated new digital asset. It doesn’t matter that it’s not decentralized, not permissionless, and not even crypto. The only question that really matters is what does Facebook’s currency spell...
CSS Remedy
4.3.2019
There is a 15-year history of CSS resets. In fact, a "reset" isn't really the right word. Tantek Çelik's take in 2004 was called "undohtml.css" and it wasn't until a few years later when Eric Meyer called his version a reset, that the word became the default term. When Normalize came around,...
Češi vytvořili „killer aplikaci“ pro virtuální realitu: Hra Beat Saber je hit
15.5.2018
Jako „killer aplikace“ se označují takové aplikace, které dokážou přimět k použití dané platformy. Pro virtuální realitu to dost možná bude hra Beat Saber od českého herního studia Hyperbolic Magnetism. V principu jednoduchá hra vyšla 1. května v předběžném přístupu na Steamu a stala se velkým