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China’s digital yuan is ‘a long way’ from beating USD says financial firm exec
3.11.2020
Sounds like its CBDC is unlikely to dethrone the United States dollar as the world’s reserve currency anytime soon
Crypto Long & Short: Wyoming Is Crypto’s ‘Wild West,’ Which Is Exactly What We Need
1.11.2020
An innovative region far from the center of financial power is taking meaningful steps towards reforming finance from the edges
Report: Token Listings Have Short Term Positive Influence on Price, M&A Have Better Impact in the Long Term
1.11.2020
A study by Etoro and The Tie find listing and partnership announcements as significant developments (Sigdev) that have an immediate, large, and positive influence on token price. This influence, which peaks within the first 24 hours, usually wears off after a week, according to the study report....
Crypto Startup Avanti Receives License To Operate as National Bank in Wyoming
30.10.2020
Crypto startup Avanti Financial Group has been granted a license to offer banking services by the Wyoming State Banking Board. The license, or bank charter, means Avanti can now operate as a conventional bank – but one with a twist, capable of holding both crypto and dollars. It plans...
Maker community scrambles to fix long-standing vulnerability to flash loans
29.10.2020
A relatively benign attack highlighted the potential threat of flash loans
Avanti Financial Joins Kraken as a Wyoming-Approved Crypto Bank
28.10.2020
Blockchain pioneer Caitlin Long is now the CEO of her own special purpose depository institution (SPDI) in Wyoming
The $750 Million Pre-Halloween Bitcoin Options Expiry Has Started to Spook Traders
28.10.2020
Even though cryptocurrency traders have been exuberant over the price rise, a number of analysts are focused on the large bitcoin and ethereum options expiries set to end before Halloween. Data from Skew.com shows $750 million in Bitcoin options is set to expire and prices could get volatile....
Anima 4.0: Go Straight From Design to React in the Design Handoff
27.10.2020
Imagine this scenario: You get an email from the design team. It contains a link to a high-fidelity prototype of a React app they want you to build. You click the link and get ready to inspect the work only to find… the components have already been built.
Huh?
It might sound like a dream...
Core Web Vital Tooling
26.10.2020
I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. When I first got into caring about performance, it was all: reduce requests! cache things! Make stuff smaller! And while those are all very related to web performance, they are abstractly related. Actual web performance to users are things...
Crypto Long & Short: Why the PayPal Rally Isn’t What It Seems, and Why That’s OK
25.10.2020
PayPal opening up its network to bitcoin and crypto is a game-changer, but the announcement hides a bigger and more important message
JP Morgan Sees Millennials’ Bitcoin Preference Over Gold as Foundation for Its Long Term Success
25.10.2020
JP Morgan says bitcoin’s 2020 surge is set to continue as the digital cryptocurrency competes better against gold as an alternative currency. In a note, the financial institution says that with millennials set to become a more important market participant in the coming years, their preference...
JPMorgan turns bullish on Bitcoin citing ‘potential long-term upside’
24.10.2020
A report from JPMorgan’s Global Markets Strategy division discusses three bullish reasons for Bitcoin’s long-term potential
Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones Sees Massive Upside in Bitcoin, Like Investing in Apple or Google Early
24.10.2020
American billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones has recently become more bullish on bitcoin. He declared the cryptocurrency the best hedge against inflation and compares investing in bitcoin now to investing in early tech stocks, like Apple and Google. “I think we are in the first...
Create an FAQ Slack app with Netlify functions and FaunaDB
22.10.2020
Sometimes, when you’re looking for a quick answer, it’s really useful to have an FAQ system in place, rather than waiting for someone to respond to a question. Wouldn’t it be great if Slack could just answer these FAQs for us? In this tutorial, we’re going to be making just that: a slash command...
Filecoin Founder Accuses Justin Sun of Spreading Lies About FIL Tokens as Fresh Dumping Allegations Emerge
21.10.2020
Juan Benet, a founder at Filecoin, is attacking Justin Sun for spreading completely false accusations about the movement of the FIL tokens soon after listing. In his long Twitter rebuff, Benet accuses Sun of spreading lies with the intention of harming the Filecoin project financially. Calling...
Institutions Long and Hedge Funds Short: Bitcoin Options Traders Prep for ‘Big Moves’ Ahead
20.10.2020
Trends in bitcoin options markets are making it difficult for financial analysts to pinpoint BTC’s next move. Data from CME’s recently published trader report shows that institutional investors are capturing a larger number of bitcoin long contracts, while hedge funds are showing...
Crypto Long & Short: The OKEx Drama Exposes a Weakness in Crypto Market Infrastructure
18.10.2020
The OKEx drama shows just how immature crypto markets are compared to traditional ones, but it also highlights their overall resilience
Advertising in Crypto: How to Run a Successful Campaign on CoinMarketCap
17.10.2020
CoinMarketCap, the most-viewed website in the cryptocurrency world, has long been known to have the most coveted digital real-estate forContinue Reading
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CoinMarketCap Report: The Storage Token Ecosystem Before Filecoin
16.10.2020
CoinMarketCap recently released a new ranking of storage tokens, right ahead of Filecoin’s long awaited launch. Filecoin, a decentralized storageContinue Reading
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Full Bleed
15.10.2020
We’ve covered techniques before for when you want a full-width element within a constrained-width column, like an edge-to-edge image within a narrower column of text. There are loads of techniques.
Perhaps my favorite is this little utility class:
.full-width {
width: 100vw;
position:...