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Make Your Own Dev Tool
29.9.2020
Amber Wilson on making bookmarklets to help yo-self. She shows off one that injects an accessibility script — I like this approach, as it means you don’t have to maintain the bookmarklet, just the script it links to). Another example runs some code contained right in the link. The result...
Token Projects to Recover $130M from the Kucoin Hack, Devs Condemned for Centralization
29.9.2020
The cryptocurrency community has been discussing the Kucoin hack as a great number of ERC20 projects have frozen, paused, or reversed their smart contracts after the hack. Estimates say that at least $129 million ERC20 tokens affected are considered “safe” from the hacker’s...
Ethereum still not ready for DeFi, say some critics
27.9.2020
Ethereum needs to fix its problems
CoinMarketCap Q3: Keeping Up With Crypto
25.9.2020
From the CoinMarketCap Team Dear CoinMarketCap Community, To say that a lot has happened in the crypto space between thisContinue Reading
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Indian Police Probe Crypto Exchange and Founders Allegedly Running a Scam
25.9.2020
Delhi police are reportedly investigating a cryptocurrency exchange and its executives allegedly duping Indian investors after receiving multiple complaints. The complainants further say the company has moved office overseas without returning their investments. Police Investigate Crypto Scam After...
Web Technologies and Syntax
24.9.2020
JavaScript has a (newish) feature called optional chaining. Say I have code like:
const name = Data.person.name;
If person happens to not exist on Data, I’m going to get a hard, show-stopping error. With optional chaining, I can write:
const name = Data.person?.name;
Now if person...
Venezuela Passes Law Legalizing Crypto Mining, Forces Miners to Join National Mining Pool
24.9.2020
Reports say Venezuela has now legalized bitcoin mining following the decree recently issued by the National Superintendency of Crypto Assets and Related Activities (Sunacrip). As part of the new regulations, all entities and individuals interested in legally mining bitcoin and other...
MakerDAO Users Hosed by March Flash Crash Won’t Get MKR Payouts, Say MKR Whales
24.9.2020
After initially voting to do so, the Maker community will not compensate investors who lost big on the lending platform during "Black Thursday's" price rout
DeFi and security not mutually exclusive, say CertiK and Binance Smart Chain Reps
23.9.2020
The crypto space continues to build frameworks to supplement DeFi's rising star
Bitcoin Traders Say Options Market Understates Likelihood of Chaotic US Election
22.9.2020
Analysts warn against reading too much into the complacency suggested by the volatility metrics
Execs Managing $78B in Assets Say Institutional Investors Plan to Allocate More Cryptocurrencies
22.9.2020
New research from the digital currency insurance firm, Evertas, shows that a surveyed group of investors managing roughly $78 billion in collective assets believes that during the next five years, institutional investors will “dramatically” increase their crypto asset holdings. This...
Equity Markets Turmoil Could Push Bitcoin Below $10K, Say Analysts
22.9.2020
Bitcoin risks falling into four figures on a continued sell-off in equities and rebounding U.S. dollar
Uniswap Users Say Uniting Can Strengthen UNI
22.9.2020
A group of anonymous Uniswap users is trying to unite the many small holders of the UNI governance token to deal with potential problems in the automated market maker’s (AMM) governance
ETH price loses ground, but network metrics say DeFi season not over yet
21.9.2020
A look into the fundamentals of the Ethereum network — is the top altcoin losing momentum?
Unstoppable Domain’s co-founder had this to say about Facebook and the future of free speech
19.9.2020
Can you imagine a world with 40 Facebooks competing for you?
UK Mulls Over Negative Interest Rates, US to Keep Near Zero Rates for Years
18.9.2020
The Bank of England is now seriously considering implementing negative interest rates while the U.S. Federal Reserve has pledged to keep interest rates near zero for years. Some analysts say even the Fed will soon consider negative interest rates. Meanwhile, many expect a boost to the price...
Say Hello to the Singularity
17.9.2020
Blockchain will be the operating system of the "technological singularity" – for better or worse
Weaved Webs
17.9.2020
There is a bit of an irony with Jamstack.
The concept is simple: you put pre-rendered, static files on web hosting (a CDN) designed to do that well. That’s it. If you need to do more, anything you do from there is done with client-side JavaScript, which is likely talking to serverless...
These 10 Bitcoin price indicators say BTC is now a buy or ‘strong buy’
16.9.2020
An almost clean bullish sweep for on-chain indicators suggests that now is an ideal entry point for buyers, says data analyst firm CryptoQuant
Winamp Skin Museum
15.9.2020
65,000 skins, they say. That’s extraordinary, especially considering how creative and well done many of them are. MySpace was an even bigger creative explosion of customization.
What’s the next product that will inspire this kind of user ownership through theming? Allowing...