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China to Foster Another Blockchain Hub, Alibaba Joins the Initiative
16.3.2020
The Golden Cow in a Buddhist Temple, in Kunming, the capital and the largest city of Yunnan province. The Southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has opened a new blockchain center that will allow companies to run a food traceability platform that will also fight the sale of fake products, with...
Attempts to Increase Bitcoin's Supply Would End Up With Another "Bitcoin"
14.3.2020
A famous painting by a Belgian Surrealist artist, René Magritte. It says: This is not a pipe.
Bitcoin's supply cap is one of its biggest selling points. Limiting the network to almost 21 million BTC, the cap makes Bitcoin a ‘deflationary’ currency.
Naturally, people have been questioning whether...
Edward Snowden ‘Felt Like Buying Bitcoin’ While Traders Hunt for the Market Bottom
13.3.2020
Following three consecutive days of losses shedding $50 billion off the cryptoconomy, digital currency markets lost another $44 billion in a matter of hours on March 12. Not only did ‘Black Thursday’ wreck traditional markets, but gold and bitcoin felt the brunt as well. Amidst...
How to Make a Line Chart With CSS
11.3.2020
Line,  bar, and pie charts are the bread and butter of dashboards and are the basic components of any data visualization toolkit. Sure, you can use SVG or a JavaScript chart library like Chart.js or a complex tool like D3 to create those charts, but what if you don't want to load yet another...
Here’s Another, Surprising Reason Why Crypto Prices Fell – Derivatives
10.3.2020
The traditional markets' recent sell-off drove cryptocurrency prices down, but the way it did so was more complicated than even many of the most sophisticated players in crypto were able to grasp
Bitmain Co-Founder Launches Another Lawsuit to Regain CEO Role
9.3.2020
Bitmain co-founder Micree Ketuan Zhan initiated a lawsuit against a subsidiary of the firm in an attempt to regain his position as the company’s CEO
6 Crypto Websites Blocked by Russia’s Media Watchdog, Including Major News Outlet
9.3.2020
In what seems to be another episode in a long-running campaign, the Russian telecom regulator has restricted access to at least six websites posting content related to cryptocurrencies. Тhe forum section of Bits.media, a leading crypto news outlet, is among the internet pages that have been...
Bitcoin Slides Another 10% But Don’t Break Out the $4K Charts Just Yet
8.3.2020
Bitcoin might be dropping this weekend, however mining difficulty is about to set an annual high
Animating CSS Width and Height Without the Squish Effect
6.3.2020
The first rule of animating on the web: don't animate width and height. It forces the browser to recalculate a bunch of stuff and it's slow (or "expensive" as they say). If you can get away with it, animating any transform property is faster (and "cheaper").
Butttt, transform can be tricky. Check...
China to Build Another Blockchain Special Zone + More News
5.3.2020
A long-span suspension bridge, Hunan, China. Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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The government of Hunan Province, China, will create a blockchain...
Australia Crypto Merchant Trade Sets $74K Monthly Record With BCH Capturing 97%
5.3.2020
Cryptocurrency payments in Australia, which have been growing in volume in the past few years, have recently scored another record. Crypto-based merchant trade across the country reached almost $74,000 in February according to a new report. Bitcoin cash has by far the largest share in retail crypto...
Xiaomi Makes Another Move Into Blockchain With New Joint Venture
3.3.2020
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/xiaomi.global
It looks like the Chinese smartphone and electronics giant Xiaomi is taking its blockchain plans more seriously. Recently, the company set up a joint venture to focus on new business areas such as blockchain, big data, and artificial intelligence...
Is Coinbase Another Step Closer to Opening in Japan?
2.3.2020
American exchange giant Coinbase has become a second-tier member of the Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA), the only officially recognized self-regulatory body of Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges.
The JVCEA’s first-tier comprises exchanges that have been granted an official...
Bitfinex Completes Another $100M Loan Facility Repayment to Tether
28.2.2020
Hours after experiencing a major DDoS attack, Bitfinex announces repayment of another $100 million of the loan facility to Tether
Another Asian Giant-backed Crypto Exchange Set to Enter U.S. Market
28.2.2020
International players are looking to move into the American cryptocurrency exchange market – with the South Korean-Japanese chat app operator Line set to open a trading platform in the country.
Per Japanese media outlet Coin Post and South Korean newspaper Hanguk Kyungjae, the new exchange will...
Animated Matryoshka Dolls in CSS
27.2.2020
Here’s a fun one. How might we create a set of those cool Matryoshka dolls where they nest inside one another... but in CSS?
I toyed with this idea in my head for a little while. Then, I saw a tweet from CSS-Tricks and the article image had the dolls. I took that as a sign! It was time to...
MoneyGram Got Another $11M From Ripple to Use Its Cross-Border Payments Tech
25.2.2020
Payments firm Ripple has given MoneyGram over $11 million dollars in the past half year, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission
How to Specify User Agent with cURL
25.2.2020
Over the years I’ve shared how to perform a number of actions with cURL: how to send POST data, how to retrieve headers, follow redirects, check GZIP encoding, and more. Another useful cURL directive is sending the user agent, as some servers respond with different content or headers...
Why Another Drop Below $9.4K Would Not Bode Well for Bitcoin Price
24.2.2020
A drop in trading volume and volatility signal that a larger move is imminent from Bitcoin
SEC to Decide the Fate of Another Bitcoin ETF Proposal This Week
24.2.2020
The SEC is poised to rule on another bitcoin ETF application this week. Wilshire Phoenix is hoping its novel fund structure might help it succeed where others have not