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Bitcoin Price Climbs to $9,500 After Third Higher High in One Week
30.1.2020
#Bitcoin price bounced off the $9.2K support and saw strong continuation above $9.5K as bulls continue to march towards $10K
Blockchain.com Launches Full Turkish Lira Banking Integration as a Native Payment Gateway for Turkey
30.1.2020
Blockchain.com has launched a full banking integration for Turkish Lira (TRY) to create a native payment gateway for users to deposit and withdraw Lira on its trading platform. With this development users in Turkey no longer have to incur high fees and conversion rates from third-party payment...
Deutsche Bank Report: Digital Yuan Could Upset Global Power Balance, Plastic Will Die, Cash Survive
29.1.2020
A new report from Deutsche Bank Research, Digital Currencies: the Ultimate Hard Power Tool, predicts that cash payments will remain for decades, but the emergence of digital payments “will lead to the death of the plastic card.” The report, which is the third installment in a series...
Simple Image Placeholders with SVG
27.1.2020
A little open-source utility from Tyler Sticka that returns a data URL of an SVG to use as an image placeholder as needed.
I like the idea of self-running utilities like that, rather than depending on some third-party service, like placekitten or whatever. Not that I'd advocate for feature...
Companies Keep Flocking to Swiss Crypto Valley, Over 1,000 Jobs Added in a Year
26.1.2020
Crypto Valley, a fintech-friendly region centered on the canton of Zug, has been expanding to other parts of Switzerland and neighboring Liechtenstein. Despite all the challenges facing the blockchain industry, favorable regulations and improving access to banking and legal services are attracting...
Gamble With Crypto at Bestecasinobonussen.nl
20.1.2020
The advancements in the IT industry allowed for banking methods like Bitcoin to thrive in the online casino market, offering online casino goers the possibility to make their deposits in the most convenient way without the risk of exposing any of their financial information to unwanted third...
Third-Party Components at Their Best
16.1.2020
I'm a fan of the componentization of the web. I think it's a very nice way to build a website at just about any scale (except, perhaps, the absolute most basic). There are no shortage of opinions about what makes a good component, but say we scope that to third-party for a moment. That...
Bitcoin Lawsuit Heats Up With More Bonded Courier Tales
16.1.2020
During the last few days, cryptocurrency participants have been discussing the notorious Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit as new developments have revealed a third party provided Craig Wright with the necessary information to unlock an encrypted file he could not access previously. Additionally, another...
Court Gives Craig Wright More Time to Await the Mysterious Bonded Courier
11.1.2020
10 days after the Tulip Trust expired, new court filings have appeared in the billion-dollar Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit. One document describes the professed existence of a Tulip Trust III, which was shown to the plaintiffs on January 6, 2020. Another filing shows that Judge Beth Bloom has affirmed...
Nervos Network Will Hand Out $30M to Encourage Third-Party Development
9.1.2020
The grant fund will pay developers in cash, rather than equity or tokens, and submitted projects will be made public to source feedback from the Nervos community
Embedded Content in Markdown
31.12.2019
Markdown supports HTML, so if you need to, say, embed a YouTube video, you can just copy and paste the embed code from them, drop it into a Markdown document, and you should be good to go. With YouTube specifically, there are other options. But in general, you don't need to do anything special...
P2P Crypto Trading App Allows You to Protect Your Privacy
21.12.2019
Regulatory pressures as well as the development of third-party, intermediary and custodial services in the crypto space have been limiting the share of peer-to-peer trading. A new contender is now challenging established P2P exchanges by offering users a mobile service that allows them to determine...
Japan’s Third Quarter GDP Grew beyond Expectation; Private Consumption Becomes the King Maker
9.12.2019
Amidst news of gloomy economic conditions world-wide, Japan seems to have good news. Its Cabinet office data has indicated that the Japanese economy has come back on track. Its third-quarter GDP growth has outperformed the initial estimation by the Japanese Government. As per the official data,...
Bitcoin Cash Represents 93% of November’s Crypto Spending in Australia
8.12.2019
News.Bitcoin.com recently reported on web portal Bitcoinbch.com’s in-depth report, which detailed BCH outshining BTC retail spending in Australia by a wide margin during the month of September. The next month, BCH captured 90% of October’s crypto spending in the country. Now the website...
Bitcoin Cash 2019: Year in Review
6.12.2019
2019 is coming to an end and the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem has matured a great deal. BCH has successfully upgraded twice this year, adding Schnorr signatures capabilities and most transactions on the BCH network are now non-malleable. Moreover, BCH has seen increased adoption this year, an...
Mining Chip Maker Ebang Next in Line to File for US IPO
6.12.2019
Ebang, the ASIC chip and mining rig manufacturer based in Hangzhou, China is allegedly filing for an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S. following Canaan’s recent Nasdaq listing and Bitmain’s secret IPO filing. The world’s third-largest bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer...
The Rising Complexity of JAMstack Sites and How to Manage Them
5.12.2019
When you add anything with user-generated content or dynamic data to a static site, the complexity of the build process can become comparable to launching a monolithic CMS. How can we add rich content to static sites without stitching together multiple third-party services?
For people in...
German Banks Authorized to Store and Sell Cryptocurrency in 2020
29.11.2019
Next year German banks will be able to manage cryptocurrencies like bitcoin after the fourth EU money laundering directive goes into effect. The directive passed in the German parliament, Bundestag, allows banks in the country to act as cryptocurrency custodians rather than rely on third-party...
EToro: Facebook Should Drop Libra and Support Third-Party Stablecoins
28.11.2019
Facebook needs to change strategy and focus on the Calibra wallet — not Libra — to assure success, say eToro’s blockchain researchers
A Third of Crypto Exchanges Have Little or No KYC, Says CipherTrace
28.11.2019
Around one third of the top 120 exchanges are "weak" when it comes to know-your-customer (KYC) verification, while two-thirds "lack strong KYC policies," the firm said