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Bitcoin Is a Viable Way to Remove the State From Your Life
29.9.2019
The last decade has seen central banks print trillions of dollars, governments grown much larger, wars continue with no end, and ordinary citizens taxed even more. Thankfully there are individuals and small pockets of people all around the world who believe something is wrong. Many of these people...
International Crypto Exchange Luno Adds Bitcoin Cash Trading
29.9.2019
Luno exchange has added bitcoin cash trading to the platform following feedback from its client base. BCH is now only the third cryptocurrency available for trading on the exchange, in addition to BTC and ETH, but more options could be on the way once Luno determines that they are credible enough....
Weekly Platform News: Layout Shifts, Stalled High-Bitrate Videos, Screenshots in Firefox
26.9.2019
In this week's roundup: fighting shifty layouts, some videos might be a bit stalled, and a new way to take screenshots in Firefox.
Let's get into the news!
Identifying the causes of layout shifts during page load
You can now use WebPageTest to capture any layout shifts that occur on your website...
Ethereum Falls Way below $170 after a 4% Decline Overnight
26.9.2019
Ethereum loses 4% overnight to go as low as 168 USD. The next support may come at 165 USD. Ethereum has made another 4% loss over the last day, and the value has gone below 170 USD now. The price variations have been in the range between 175 USD and 162 USD. Yesterday, after 14:00 …
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Chinese Homecoming — Crypto Companies Make Their Way Back to Asia
25.9.2019
After leaving China in 2017, Binance recently made its first major investment in the country by backing a local crypto/blockchain media outlet called Mars Finance
It ain’t so black and white
25.9.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 25 September, 2019 Perspective “You have your way, I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, the only way, it does not exist.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Good morning folks! It's […]
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It ain’t so black and white
25.9.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 25 September, 2019 “You have your way, I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, the only way, it does not exist.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Day of rekt-oning Over the […]
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Crypto-Powered IoT Networks Are on Their Way to Over 250 US Cities
24.9.2019
Crypto-mining modems that Helium uses to connect IoT devices to the internet will soon be shipping across the U.S
How Merge Mining and Anchored Blockchain Projects Capitalize on Bitcoin’s Security Model
21.9.2019
Since 2011, just after Satoshi Nakamoto left the Bitcoin project for good, networks have emerged that leverage the BTC chain in some way. A variety of projects over the last nine years have found value in anchoring some sort of feature set to BTC in order to bolster the satellite’s underlying...
Weekly Platform News: Emoji String Length, Issues with Rounded Buttons, Bundled Exchanges
19.9.2019
In this week's roundup, the string length of two emojis is not always equal, something to consider before making that rounded button, and we may have a new way to share web apps between devices, even when they are offline.
The JavaScript string length of emoji characters
A single rendered emoji...
Git Pathspecs and How to Use Them
19.9.2019
When I was looking through the documentation of git commands, I noticed that many of them had an option for <pathspec>. I initially thought that this was just a technical way to say “path,” and assumed that it could only accept directories and filenames. After diving into the rabbit hole...
Automatically compress images on Pull Requests
19.9.2019
Sarah introduced us to GitHub Actions right after it dropped about a year ago. Now they have improved the feature and are touting its CI/CD abilities. Run tests, do deployment, do whatever stuff computers do! It's essentially a YAML file that says run this, then this, then this, etc., with...
A Color Picker for Product Images
17.9.2019
Sounds kind of like a hard problem doesn't it? We often don't have product shots in thousands of colors, such that we can flip out the <img src="product-red.jpg" alt="red product"> with <img src="product-blue.jpg" alt="blue product">. Nor do we typically have products in a vector...
Overflow And Data Loss In CSS
17.9.2019
"Data Loss" is a funny term. My brain thinks of like packet loss on the way from the server to your browser, resulting in missing content in files. Perhaps it is that on some level, but in CSS parlance, it has to do with the overflow property. Too much content for sized container + hidden overflow...
Ether Hit USD 200; On its Way to Surpass BTC in Daily Transaction Fees
17.9.2019
After a strong rally in the past week, the second largest digital token by market capitalization, ether (ETH), climbed above the USD 200 level today, where it was almost a month ago. Moreover, researchers claim that Ethereum is also overtaking Bitcoin in daily transaction fees. A major reason...
HTC Adds Native Bitcoin Cash Support to Its Flagship Smartphone
16.9.2019
The bitcoin cash community now has a new way to secure and transact its digital money, as HTC adds native BCH support to its Exodus 1 smartphone. A key reason the technology manufacturer has chosen to do so is that many consumers are using BCH as a payment method and HTC wants to see...
At Least 19 Central Banks Give Way to Monetary Easing As Economy Slows
16.9.2019
In a coordinated fashion, more than 18 central banks worldwide have or plan to cut interest rates, sparking a domino effect of monetary easing. It’s been 10 years since the world has seen central planners orchestrate such harmonization in an attempt to save the economy from a deep recession....
caniemail.com
15.9.2019
As long as I can remember the main source for feature support in HTML email clients is Campaign Monitor's guide. Now there is a new player on the block: caniemail.com.
HTML email is often joked about in how you have to code for it in such an antiquated way (<table>s! really!) but that's...
Tagomi Rollout Paves Way for Institutional Crypto Shorting
13.9.2019
Crypto brokerage Tagomi released its borrowing and lending platform to the wider public, enabling investors to short cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum. Tagomi’s COO Kevin Johnson told CoinDesk that its new platform addresses issues that stymie institutional crypto shorts. Many large-scale...
Bengaluru Fintech Summit Identifies Promising Tech Startups Paving Way for India’s Leadership in Digital Era
13.9.2019
Fintech Storm hosts a landmark Bengaluru Fintech &Crypto Summit 26-27 September to identify promising emerging tech startups and catalyse the startup funding ecosystem. Young techies and entrepreneurs should step up to pave way for India’s tech leadership in the fourth industrial...