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Six Blockchain Companies Make WEF 100 Technology Pioneers List
17.6.2020
The ever-growing amount of positive news surrounding blockchain technology testifies to its rising popularity. Six blockchain companies were included on the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s 100 Technology Pioneers for 2020 list. And a survey has found that more than a third of the world's companies...
Layer 2 Will Make Bitcoin as Easy to Use as the Dollar, Says Kraken CEO
17.6.2020
Kraken CEO Jesse Powell told Bloomberg in a recent interview that Bitcoin would surpass gold as a store of value in the long-term
Capital One Patents AI Fact-Checker to Make Crypto Trading Safer
16.6.2020
Capital One believes its patented artificial intelligence system can better assess whether crypto-related news and data are more reliable than humans for tradings, according to its patent filing
Ethermine Mining Pool Cashes in Its $2.6 Million Ethereum Fee Windfall
16.6.2020
Ethermine will now proceed to distribute its $2.6 million bonanza from a series of bizarre ethereum transactions last week after the fund’s owner failed to make a valid claim. On June 11, the miner, a unit of Bitfly, received the record fee in a transaction involving just 350 ether (ETH),...
Just-Launched Ziglu Wants to Make It Stupid Easy to Buy Crypto
15.6.2020
U.K.-based cryptocurrency platform Ziglu has launched, following a $6.6 million seed round
Whales Make Waves, Super Heroes Rise, and Bank Accounts Freeze: Bad Crypto News of the Week
13.6.2020
Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast
Striking a Balance Between Native and Custom Select Elements
12.6.2020
Here’s the plan! We’re going to build a styled select element. Not just the outside, but the inside too. Total styling control. Plus we’re going to make it accessible. We’re not going to try to replicate everything that the browser does by default with a native <select> element. We’re going...
CUBE CSS
11.6.2020
A CSS methodology from Andy Bell:
The most important part of this methodology is the language itself: CSS. It’s key to note its existence in the name because some alternative approaches, such as BEM—which I have enjoyed for many years—can veer very far away from Cascading Style Sheets. I love CSS...
An Army of Hackers Can Make Crypto Safer, But Is Enough Being Done?
11.6.2020
Bug bounties have emerged as one of the key ways for companies to prevent catastrophic hacks
Bolstering Privacy: Human Rights Foundation Donates $50K Toward Bitcoin Mixing Development
11.6.2020
On June 10, 2020, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) launched a fund that is dedicated to the development of tools that make the Bitcoin network “more private, decentralized, and resilient.” HRF’s initial gift of $50,000 will be given to the UK-based developer, Chris Belcher,...
BitPay’s Prepaid Mastercard Launches in US to Make Crypto Accessible
11.6.2020
BitPay rolls out prepaid Mastercard for U.S. crypto customers, hoping to further drive adoption and purchasing power of crypto holders
Kyber Says its FPR is Uniquely Designed, Allows Market Makers and Developers to Make Profits On-Chain
10.6.2020
On-chain liquidity protocol Kyber Network tweeted on Tuesday that its Federal Price Reserves (FPR) is uniquely designed to allow market makers and advanced developers to generate profits on-chain. In a Medium post on the topic, Kyber stated that FPRs make the market making profitable and feasible...
Law Enforcement Is Starting to Make Criminals Doubt the Dark Web
8.6.2020
Trend Micro reveals dwindling confidence among darknet users in marketplaces due to security concerns
Seedless Wallets Want to Make Bitcoin More User Friendly
7.6.2020
Source: Adobe/Сергей Шиманович
Bitcoin (BTC) has been around for more than 11 years, but it’s still rather difficult for the average person to use the network in a secure manner. One of the reasons for this is that Bitcoin works very differently from traditional online payment systems.
In Bitcoin...
Blockchain to Disrupt Music Industry and Make It Change Tune
6.6.2020
Blockchain technology is tipping the scales of the music industry, shifting the power from intermediaries back to artists
A/B Testing Instant.Page With Netlify and Speedcurve
5.6.2020
Instant.Page does one special thing to make sites faster: it preloads the next page when it’s pretty sure you’re going to click a link (either by hovering over 65ms or mousedown on desktop, or touchstart on mobile), so when you do complete the click (probably a few hundred milliseconds...
Bitcoin’s Growth To Help Make Its Price Less Volatile
5.6.2020
Brian Wong is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the BTSE exchange.
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This week, we saw bitcoin’s dramatic rise to USD 10,000, followed by a quick drop which happened far too suddenly to be considered natural.
The crypto market is seeing an increased number of quantitative...
A Primer on Display Advertising for Web Designers
4.6.2020
A lot of websites (this one included) rely on advertising as an important revenue source. Those ad placements directly impact the interfaces we build and interact with every day. Building layouts with ads in them is a dance of handling them in fluid environments, and also balancing the need...
As Protests Rage, Someone in Crypto Wants to Make Money on George Floyd
4.6.2020
Some in the crypto community are using the turmoil in the United States to push a George Floyd token in what appears to be an obvious cash grab that feeds on sentiment
The Best Design System Tool is Slack
4.6.2020
There’s a series questions I have struggled with for as long as I can remember. The questions have to do with how design systems work: Where should we document things? Do we make a separate app? Do we use a third-party tool to document our components? How should that tie into Figma or Sketch?...