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Darknet Vendors Work Overtime as Police Halt Drug Arrests
19.3.2020
The coronavirus is having a strange effect on the war on drugs. Narcotics activities that were deemed serious crimes only a week ago have been dropped by U.S. law enforcement, who have greater concerns now that cities are under effective lockdown. Meanwhile, darknet vendors are doing their best...
Darknet Markets Keep Shipping as Shoppers Shun the Streets
13.3.2020
These are strange times for crypto. While it’s blood in the markets, it’s business as usual on the darknet, where marketplaces are seeing a steady inflow of cryptocurrency. They’re also seeing an inflow of new users as the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic make online...
Innovation Can’t Keep the Web Fast
31.1.2020
Every so often, the fruits of innovation bear fruit in the form of improvements to the foundational layers of the web. In 2015, HTTP/2 became a published standard in an effort to update an aging protocol. This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an arcane sort...
Bitcoin History Part 23: The First BTC Escrow
9.1.2020
Before the emergence of crypto exchanges and trustless multi-sig, early bitcoiners saw the need for an escrow service – a mediator to act as a go-between for strangers transacting online. Given the panoply of options now available, it is strange to think that escrow was once provided by a...
‘Strange’ Litecoin Network Activity Could Be Related To August Dust Attack
15.12.2019
Strange Litecoin network behavior might be related to the Aug. 10 dust attack on Litecoin
Strange Confusions, Big Money and 20 Crypto Jokes
19.10.2019
It was another week of ups and down in the Cryptoworld. While analysts advise us to keep our eyes on the price formation on large Asian exchanges, XRP jumped the highest among the top 10 on Monday, BAT jumped after Brave's major news, six coins in the top 50 went up by two digits, BNB jumped...
Dutch National Bank Says Gold Can Re-Start Economy in Case of Total Collapse
13.10.2019
An article found on the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) website has surprised many in the crypto space, with its bold claim that “If the entire system collapses, the gold stock provides a collateral to start over.” While proclamations of this nature are nothing new, it is strange to see...
Why the Birth of Bitcoin Can Be Traced Back to 1971
1.9.2019
The world economy is a complex system that has undergone many different phases in the past century. As strange as it may sound today, there have been times when banking crises were rare, pay was rising alongside productivity, and the U.S. dollar would buy a certain amount of pure gold. Despite...
The Strange Case of CCN and the Google June 2019 Core Update
15.6.2019
Did Google just kill one of the crypto industry’s oldest news outlets? Cointelegraph attempted to find out
Drawing Realistic Clouds with SVG and CSS
13.6.2019
Greek mythology tells the story of Zeus creating the cloud nymph, Nephele. Like other Greek myths, this tale gets pretty bizarre and X-rated. Here’s a very abridged, polite version.
Nephele, we are told, was created by Zeus in the image of his own beautiful wife. A mortal meets Nephele, falls...
The div that looks different in every browser
13.7.2018
It's not that Martijn Cuppens used User Agent sniffing, CSS hacks, or anything like that to make this quirk div. This is just a plain ol' <div> using the outline property a la:
div {
inset 100px green;
outline-offset: -125px;
}
It looks different in different browsers because browsers...
A Strange High: Two Days at Denver’s Crypto-Cannabis Conference
5.11.2016
Denver's Crypto-Cannabis Conference wants a marriage between the cryptocurrency and cannabis industry, but is the use case strong enough?