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NEO Price Analysis: Will the Bears Make Way for Bulls For NEO?
22.8.2019
The bears had been putting pressure on the price of NEO like other altcoins for the whole of July. August seems to have been a little better for NEO though the bears are still holding ground as seen from the one-day price chart with the prices oscillating in the range of $9.20 – $9.83....
The World Bank’s Blockchain Bond Is Just a Fancy Way of Selling Debt
21.8.2019
Last year the World Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced a permissioned Ethereum-based blockchain to facilitate the end-to-end issuance of bonds between financial partners. The Bretton Woods-created financial institution hopes to make debt capital markets far more efficient with...
Using requestAnimationFrame with React Hooks
21.8.2019
Animating with requestAnimationFrame should be easy, but if you haven’t read React’s documentation thoroughly then you will probably run into a few things that might cause you a headache. Here are three gotcha moments I learned the hard way.
TLDR: Pass an empty array as a second parameter...
Other Ways to SPAs
21.8.2019
That rhymed lolz.
I mentioned on a podcast the other day that I sorta think WordPress should ship with Turbolinks. It's a rather simple premise:
Build a server-rendered site.
Turbolinks intercepts clicks on same-origin links.
It uses AJAX for the HTML of the new page and replaces the current page...
Pave the Way for Future of Fintech and Cryptocurrency
21.8.2019
[USA August 5, 2019] – Hosted by BitMart Labs, the 2019 Block Plus Summit III will be launched on September 15 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The summit gathers the elites in the industry of Fintech from regulators, international leading companies, financial institutions, blockchain companies...
DigiByte Price Analysis: Will Bears Give A Way for Bull Run to DGB Price?
19.8.2019
DigiByte has shown a lot of downward price variations over the last month DigiByte (DGB) is the most secure UTXO blockchain till date and has been growing at a rapid pace with ever-expanding user base. DGB price has been under a lot of pressure with the bears currently controlling the crypto market...
Bitcoin History Part 15: Silk Road Is Born
18.8.2019
Silk Road launched in February 2011 as the darknet’s first bitcoin-based marketplace. Within four months, it would be the darknet’s most notorious site whose reputation extended all the way to the U.S. Senate. The origins of the drugs marketplace can be traced back further, however,...
20 Crypto Jokes on the Way Back to USD 20K per Bitcoin
17.8.2019
This week in Bitcoin news: BTC dropped to USD 10.5K, while Ether and XRP remained steady and BCH rallied, then it dropped below USD 10K, then it went above USD 10K...This happened a few more times. Your first visit to the Cryptoworld? No need for a heart attack, this is normal around here....
The Making of an Animated Favicon
15.8.2019
It’s the first thing your eyes look for when you’re switching tabs.
That’s one way of explaining what a favicon is. The tab area is a much more precious screen real-estate than what most assume. If done right, besides being a label with icon, it can be the perfect billboard to represent what’s...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Falls Way Below $11,000; No Signs of Recovery for Now
14.8.2019
Bitcoin falls below 11,000 USD with no signs of recovery for now. Bitcoin has shown six major price swings in the last 30 days and the price range lies between 9100 USD and 12,200 USD. Bitcoin has made its investors mourn over the last 24 hours as the coin has gone below 11,000 USD. It …
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PR: Decentralized Recurring Crypto Payments System Launched by Monarch Blockchain
13.8.2019
Monarch, the decentralized wallet and suite of crypto services, has launched the first decentralized recurring payments system Until now, there’s been no way to automatically pay merchants in crypto on a recurring basis due to the limits of blockchain-based transactions. To solve this, Monarch...
How Bridging Blockchains Unlocks Value and Unites Crypto Tribes
12.8.2019
Interoperability is a multisyllabic word for a multi-faceted problem. How do you get blockchains to communicate with one another? Until recently, there’s been no easy way to achieve this, leaving assets isolated and smart contract-powered dapps siloed on their respective protocols. Before...
In Search of a Stack That Monitors the Quality and Complexity of CSS
12.8.2019
Many developers write about how to maintain a CSS codebase, yet not a lot of them write about how they measure the quality of that codebase. Sure, we have excellent linters like StyleLint and CSSLint, but they only help at preventing mistakes at a micro level. Using a wrong color notation, adding...
Crypto Regulations Are Changing Worldwide to Comply With FATF Standards
12.8.2019
Governments worldwide are changing the way they regulate crypto assets to comply with the global cryptocurrency standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Some are amending existing laws, while others are creating a new system to cooperate and share data. Also read: China Publishes...
Moving Text on a Curved Path
9.8.2019
There was a fun article in The New York Times the other day describing the fancy way Elizabeth Warren and her staff let people take a selfie with Warren. But... the pictures aren't actually selfies because they are taken by someone else. The article has his hilarious line of text that wiggles by...
Quick Gulp Cache Busting
7.8.2019
You should for sure be setting far-out cache headers on your assets like CSS and JavaScript (and images and fonts and whatever else). That tells the browser "hang on to this file basically forever." That way, when navigating from page to page on a site — or revisiting it, or refreshing...
Electroneum Price Analysis: Is ETN On Its Way To Become The Next Big Coin?
7.8.2019
ETN has embarked on the roads of Brazil as well. Well, that definitely calls for a celebration as it will help in improving the capitalization and visibility of ETN in the global network. With this, we expect the coin to surge with greater price marks in the upcoming times. Congratulations...
Let’s Give Grunt Tasks the Marie Kondo Organization Treatment
6.8.2019
We live in an era of webpack and npm scripts. Good or bad, they took the lead for bundling and task running, along with bits of Rollup, JSPM and Gulp. But let's face it. Some of your older projects are still using good ol' Grunt. While it no longer glimmers as brightly, it does the job well...
Let Mavo Shine in Building Interactive Web Applications
6.8.2019
As you could guess from the title, this tutorial is dedicated to Mavo: a new, approachable way to create complex, reactive, persistent web applications just by writing HTML and CSS, without a single line of JavaScript and no server backend.
🐇 Follow the white rabbit!
Mavo is developed...
Litecoin Price Analysis: Litecoin (LTC) Gains almost 2%; Still, a Long Way to Go for the Century Mark
5.8.2019
Litecoin (LTC) is up by almost 2% in the last 24 hours. Yesterday’s highest value was 96.53 USD. Litecoin seems to be following the footsteps of Bitcoin. Over the past few days, the coin has been showing strength over USD. In the last 24 hours as well, Litecoin is up by almost 2%. Though...