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“Headless Mode”

2.12.2019
A couple of months ago, we invited Marc Anton Dahmen to show off his database-less content management system (CMS) Automad. His post is an interesting inside look at templating engines, including how they work, how CMSs use them, and how they impact the way we write things, such as loops. Well...

Photonics Bitcoin Mining Tech Aims to ‘Democratize’ Energy Use

29.11.2019
Three researchers have published a paper at Cornell University’s arxiv.org proposing a system called Optical Proof of Work (OPOW) to potentially be employed in Bitcoin mining. According to the paper, “heavy reliance on electricity has created scalability issues, environmental concerns...

Crypto Employees in China Work From Home to Avoid Government Pressure

29.11.2019
Not too long after embracing blockchain, Beijing has made it clear, one way or the other, that it didn’t mean Bitcoin. Increased scrutiny over the cryptocurrency sector and harsh measures against some companies have been implemented to supposedly protect citizens from scams. Sources say...

iOS 13 Broke the Classic Pure CSS Parallax Technique

27.11.2019
I know. You hate parallax. You know what we should hate more? When things that used to work on the web stop working without any clear warning or idea why. Way back in 2014, Keith Clark blogged an exceptionally clever CSS trick where you essentially use a CSS transform to scale an element down...

BitTorrent Creator Calls Vitalik’s ASIC-Resistant Proof-of-Work ‘A Pipe Dream And a Bad Idea’

26.11.2019
BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen says ASIC-resistant proof-of-work is both “a pipe dream and a bad idea”

A History of Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms

26.11.2019
The consensus mechanism is a critical blockchain component, providing a non-partisan means of establishing agreement as to the network’s current state. But ever since Bitcoin emerged in 2008, its original consensus mechanism – Proof of Work (PoW) – has been emulated and iterated...

Philippines and BCB Blockchain to Work Together on Smart Cities

23.11.2019
BCB Blockchain has partnered with the Philippines to bring its expertise in research and development of smart city apps to the country

Growing Accessibility Conversations

22.11.2019
I started this year on a new path at Knowbility — to help people and organizations create accessible content and apps. But what was exciting and helped motivate me more were two things: WebAIM's Accessibility Analysis of One Million Page Homepages. With over 97% of sites having WCAG failure...

Developer Launches BCH-Powered Paywall Service

22.11.2019
On Thursday, software developer Alex Winter announced the launch of Satoshiwall.cash, a noncustodial bitcoin cash-powered paywall service. The new platform allows anyone to create a customized paywall that uses BCH for payments so people can monetize their work online. Also read: Crypto Swapping...

The world’s biggest mining farm to be built in 2020

20.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 20 November, 2019 “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” - Newt Gingrich In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Bitcoin mining […] The post The world’s biggest...

The world’s biggest mining farm to be built in 2020

Telecom Firms to Work With Technology Vendors on Blockchain for Interoperability

19.11.2019
Recently, it was reported that Tata Communications, PCCW Global, TI Sparkle, and Colt, the major Telecom firms, are associating with technology vendors, which include Amartus, Accedian, and Clear on a blockchain PoC (Proof-of-Concept) for on-demand services. A major issue in the mobile...

The Bank of Google Wants Your Spending Data

16.11.2019
The multinational technology giant Google has plans to get into the banking industry according to multiple reports that reveal the firm intends to work with Stanford Federal Credit Union and Citigroup. However, analysts assert that Google is not jumping into banking for revenue purposes and...

Proof-of-Authority Algorithm Use Cases Grow: From Pharma to Games

16.11.2019
Fast, scalable and efficient: Why Microsoft, Walmart, and PwC opt for the proof-of-authority consensus algorithm

How Crypto Assets Are Capturing the Attention Economy

14.11.2019
Human attention is a finite resource: we awake each day with it replenished, only for it to seep away through work, leisure, and time frittered idly browsing the web while circumventing ads. Recognizing the scarcity of maintaining human interest, attention economists have devised incentivized...

[Updated] Samson Mow: Proof-of-Stake Is a Joke, Backstage at The Capital

13.11.2019
Blockstream’s Samson Mow was fairly quiet during the panel “Proof-of-Work, Halving and the Future of Mining” on day two ofContinue Reading The post [Updated] Samson Mow: Proof-of-Stake Is a Joke, Backstage at The Capital appeared first on CoinMarketCap Blog

[Updated] Samson Mow: Proof-of-Stake Is a Joke, Backstage at The Capital

‘Proof-of-Stake is a Joke’: Samson Mow Backstage at The Capital

13.11.2019
Blockstream’s Samson Mow was fairly quiet during the panel “Proof-of-Work, Halving and the Future of Mining” on day two of CoinMarketCap’s The Capital conference. But he sat down with The Capital backstage afterward and shared some of his thoughts more […] The post ‘Proof-of-Stake is a Joke’:...

Crypto-Based Commerce Spikes 65% in 7 Months

9.11.2019
Commerce fueled by cryptocurrencies has once again started to grow. Data collected by blockchain forensics company Chainalysis shows a significant increase of volume in the first half of the year. The positive change coincided with the remarkable market recovery that followed last year’s...

Query JSON documents in the Terminal with GROQ

7.11.2019
JSON documents are everywhere today, but they are rarely structured the way you want them to be. They often include too much data, have weirdly named fields, or place the data in unnecessary nested objects. Graph-Relational Object Queries (GROQ) is a query language (like SQL, but different) which...