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‘It’s Part and Parcel of Crypto’: How Memes Drive Narrative and Value
26.8.2020
In 1964, the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan said the "medium is the message." Today, in crypto, the meme is the message
John McAfee Clarifies He Is Still Part of Ghost’s Ecosystem
25.8.2020
McAfee continues to haunt the ghost ecosystem, despite abandoning its primary asset
Where Does Logic Go on Jamstack Sites?
24.8.2020
Here’s something I had to get my head wrapped around when I started building Jamstack sites. There are these different stages your site goes through where you can put logic.
Let’s look at a special example so you can see what I mean. Say you’re making a website for a music venue. The most...
Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting
21.8.2020
leading-trim is a suggested new CSS property that lets us remove the extra spacing in every font so that we can more predictably style text. Ethan Wang has written about it — including how Microsoft has advocated for it — and that it’s now part of the Inline Layout Module Level 3 spec.
You’d use...
Big Brother Nigeria Housemates Participate in Bitcoin Quiz, Get $500 BTC as Reward
19.8.2020
Eighteen housemates of Nigeria’s version of Big Brother took part in a bitcoin quiz with each participant getting $500 worth of BTC as prize money. Big Brother Naija (BBN) reportedly agreed to this unusual step as part of moves to offer more than just entertainment to its audience. As part...
Russia, With Bitcoin Playing Bit Part, Tried to Hack 2016 U.S. Election, Senate Report Finds
18.8.2020
Bitcoin may have been the salacious pretext to Marina Butina's fling with Patrick Byrne
Queue Jumping in Netlify
18.8.2020
Cutting to the chase: if you’re on a Business or Enterprise team on Netlify, you can click a build to make it run next in a queue. For example, if you have a really time-sensitive thing (e.g. a bug fix going to production), it can jump ahead of some random development branch building....
Ethereum Classic 51% Attack: Okex Crypto Exchange Suffers $5.6 Million Loss, Contemplates Delisting ETC
18.8.2020
Cryptocurrency exchange Okex reveals it suffered the $5.6 million loss as a result of the double-spend carried out by the attacker(s) in Ethereum Classic 51% attack. Okex says it fully absorbed the loss as per its user-protection policy while insisting that the attack did not cause any loss to...
Kazakhstan Proposes 15% Tax on Bitcoin Mining to Help Combat Coronavirus
12.8.2020
Kazakhstan has proposed legislation that would see a 15% tax imposed on bitcoin mining firms. This is part of efforts to raise money to help with the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Proposed by the country’s Ministry of Economy, the new tax plan requires bitcoin (BTC) miners to first...
Don’t Wait! Mock the API
10.8.2020
Today we have a loose coupling between the front end and the back end of web applications. They are usually developed by separate teams, and keeping those teams and the technology in sync is not easy. To solve part of this problem, we can “fake” the API server that the back end tech...
A General Strategy on How to Select a Crypto Fund, Part 2
9.8.2020
There are about 800 crypto funds today, making it a daunting task for investors to decide how to invest
Title Token for Blockchain Estate Registry, Part 3
8.8.2020
Discussing cross-blockchain protocol that enables the use of ledgers in an interoperable bundle
Warp SVG Online
6.8.2020
The warping is certainly the cool part here. Some fancy math literally transforms the path data to do the warping. But the UX detail work here is just as nice. Scrolling the page zooms in and out via a transform: scale() on the SVG wrapper (clever!). Likewise, holding the spacebar lets you...
‘Rat Poison Squared on Steroids’: What’s New in Bitcoin’s Latest Lightning Release
4.8.2020
With a sly poke at Warren Buffet's comment that Bitcoin is "rat poison squared," c-lightning developers' latest release adds some key new Lightning features
A General Strategy on How to Select a Crypto Fund, Part 1
3.8.2020
A basic framework of useful metrics to assess the true risk of a crypto fund as a quantitative screening tool
Accused of Spreading a FUD Zeus Capital Doubles Down on Chainlink Pump and Dump Claims
2.8.2020
Zeus Capital LLP has released a new report reiterating its earlier stance that Chainlink is a giant pump and dump scheme. This new report comes after the little known asset management and research firm took a flak for attacking Chainlink’s token in an earlier report. In what it now terms part...
Title Token for Blockchain Estate Registry, Part 2
1.8.2020
Focusing on title tokens, a theory of smart laws, digital authorities and how to protect the system from digital dictatorship
Blockchain Is Part of Australia’s Cyber Security Solution, Say Experts
31.7.2020
Australian experts suggest blockchain is an integral part to protecting Australia’s business and government from cyber attacks
Fidelity Digital Assets Quotes Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto in Latest Investment Thesis
31.7.2020
Fidelity Digital Assets (FDA) quotes Satoshi Nakamoto in its latest investment thesis report. The thesis is part of a series of reports examining the perspectives driving interest and investment in bitcoin. FDA is affiliated with Fidelity through parent company Fidelity Management & Research...
CFTC Chair: ‘A Large Part’ of Financial System Could End Up in Blockchain Format
28.7.2020
Perfection shouldn’t be the enemy of good when it comes to regulating the cryptocurrency space, said Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Heath Tarbert