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How DeFi ‘Degens’ Are Funding the Next Wave of Open-Source Development
30.12.2020
Gitcoin's Kevin Owocki coins the phrase "regenerative finance" to describe the future of funding open-source development
Miami Mayor Open to Bitcoin Investment, Crypto Bill Pay Plans
30.12.2020
Francis Suarez. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/mayorofmiami
The Mayor of Miami, Florida, has stated that he is “definitely open to exploring” the idea of investing 1% of the city’s treasury reserves in bitcoin (BTC).
The Mayor, Francis Suarez, was reacting on Twitter to a challenge from Anthony...
Physical Crypto Bank Opens in India — These 14 Locations Offer In-Person Banking, Lending, Crypto Exchange
30.12.2020
A crypto bank has begun opening physical branches in India through a joint venture between Cashaa and United Multistate co-op society. Customers can open bank accounts, buy and sell cryptocurrencies, obtain crypto-backed loans, as well as learn about crypto. Crypto Bank Opens Physical Branches...
Betting Your Coins Online? Be Sure to AskGamblers First
30.12.2020
Visit AskGamblers.com before ever wagering your hard-earned coins in an online casino. AskGamblers is the internet’s largest and most trusted portal dedicated to curating honest, fair, and open gaming experiences for users worldwide. These Days You Can Use Bitcoin to Buy Just About Anything...
Large Bitcoin Futures Gap Causes Temporary Trading Pause, ETH Open Interest Hits All Time High
30.12.2020
CME Group temporarily paused trading of bitcoin futures after the market opened to a large gap of over $3,000 between the derivatives and the underlying crypto asset. According to a report, it was this huge futures gap which “amounted to a massive upside volatility” that led to...
Is Defi Coming to Bitcoin Cash? An Overview of Detoken and the Anyhedge Protocol
30.12.2020
Maybe you’ve heard of Anyhedge. Last April, news.Bitcoin.com published an article about its announcement, but what is it really? What does it do, and how’s it work? The Anyhedge Protocol Anyhedge is an open-source protocol. It is simply a way to use the blockchain (in this case,...
Open a Browser Tab with DevTools Open by Default
28.12.2020
Using command line flags is a great way to subtly improve productivity. Whether saving yourself keystrokes or enabling specific features, it’s very much worth knowing the application flags available to you. To launch a new tab with DevTools in Chrome, you can use...
Bitcoin Derivatives Action Swells: A Few June Futures Trade for $30K, Deribit Adds $140K Options Strike
27.12.2020
Bitcoin derivatives markets have been seeing significant demand in recent months at the same time bitcoin spot markets climbed to all-time price highs and surged 149% during the last three months. Just recently the leading bitcoin options exchange Deribit announced the launch of both $120k...
Here Comes the Open Lending Era
24.12.2020
Open lending grew from a fringe use-case to a burgeoning engine powering the next phase of the digital economy
Continuous Performance Analysis with Lighthouse CI and GitHub Actions
23.12.2020
Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. The easiest way to use it is through the Chrome DevTools panel. Once you open the DevTools, you will see a “Lighthouse” tab. Clicking the “Generate report”...
Two Rubygems Infected With Crypto-Stealing Feature Malware Spotted by Researchers
19.12.2020
New infected Rubygems packages have been spotted in its open-source software repository and which contained malicious code mainly used to steal cryptocurrencies from users via supply chain attack. Two Cryptocurrency-Stealers Rubygems Detected by Researchers at Sonatype According to Ax Sharma,...
Record $6.5B Bitcoin options open interest follows BTC all-time high
18.12.2020
Bitcoin options open interest reached a record-high $6.5 billion as investors continue to increase their optimistic long-term bets
Cardano to open up to Ethereum Solidity devs with new initiative
18.12.2020
KEVM will allow deploying Solidity smart contracts to Cardano
QE Infinity: US Fed to Keep Rates at Zero, Billion-Dollar Bond Purchases Until Economy Recovers
18.12.2020
This week the U.S. Federal Reserve met for two days at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting and detailed that it would keep short-term borrowing rates at near zero. Meanwhile, the Fed also stated that it would continue buying bonds until the U.S. economy returns to full employment....
If Traditional Finance Moves to CBDCs, 2 Scenarios Open for DeFi - INDX CEO
17.12.2020
Source: Adobe/Михаил Зябликов
Traditional finance can't escape decentralized finance (DeFi). The former's move into digital currencies is bound to impact both, producing two main possible scenarios, according to Jonathan DeCarteret, CEO of tokenized crypto fund INDX Capital.
DeFi is light years...
Perpetual Protocol crosses $500K open interest cap amid BTC all-time high
17.12.2020
Newly launched DeFi derivatives platform Perpetual Protocol crosses open interest milestone in barely 24 hours
Record $7.9B Bitcoin futures open interest shows bears are watching BTC price
16.12.2020
Bitcoin price may have broken above $20,000 but the 40% decrease in volume shows bears are watching BTC closely
Free TON Community’s Meritocratic Token Distribution Model to Revolutionize Tokenomics
15.12.2020
Free TON is a community driven PoS network with a focus on decentralized governance. It is based on the open-source TON project which was previously developed by Telegram. Free TON never had an ICO and will never have a token sale. Instead the project implements a distribution model that will...
Acclaimed NFT Artist’s Blockchain-Backed Digital Art Auction Raises $3.5 Million
15.12.2020
Blockchain-backed digital art is continuing to make waves and this week an artist who calls himself ‘Beeple’ raised $3.5 million during his latest non-fungible token (NFT) art collection auction. The “Everydays” collection auction included 21 original single edition Beeple...
Give Users Control: The Media Session API
14.12.2020
Here’s a scenario. You start a banging Kendrick Lamar track in one of your many open browser tabs. You’re loving it, but someone walks into your space and you need to pause it. Which tab is it? Browsers try to help with that a little bit. You can probably mute the entire system audio. But wouldn’t...