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How The Mandalorian's Finale Reveal Fits Into Star Wars' Timeline
21.12.2020
The Mandalorian’s season finale took Din Djarin’s small slice of the Star Wars universe and exploded it into smithereens—smithereens with much larger ties to the vast Skywalker Saga than any of us could’ve imagined when this show first started last year. But now that its adventures are inextricably...
Sharpen Your JavaScript Skills with Pluralsight (Sponsored)
21.12.2020
JavaScript recently turned 25 years old, and while it started by dominating over the client side world, this beautiful programming language is well on its way to taking over the server side. JavaScript isn’t just thriving — it’s evolving with new syntax features, patterns...
Yield Farming-boosted DeFi Set For New Fields With Old Challenges in 2021
20.12.2020
2020 was the year of the DeFi explosion. Having had modest beginnings in 2018 and 2019, decentralized finance really took off this year, with the likes of Maker, Compound and Aave combining to push the total value locked (TVL) into the DeFi space to over USD 16bn.
This peak represents a growth...
Gift Ideas For a Very Merry Crypto Christmas 2020
19.12.2020
With another bitcoin (BTC) all-time high and Christmas knocking on our wreath-decorated doors, we are reminded that a major aspect of the holiday season is certainly - that’s right – shopping after an impressive bull run in the market this year. Let’s take a look at some interesting crypto-themed...
High Spikes, Higher Jumps, Highest Bulls and 20 Crypto Jokes
19.12.2020
In the week of bulls, bitcoin not only touched the USD 20K level, but it shot right past it, and towards USD 23K, and over it. It’s much appreciated (pun intended). As more people are interested in buying BTC and ETH than selling them, Bitcoin bulls and bears listed the reasons why they think...
If Traditional Finance Moves to CBDCs, 2 Scenarios Open for DeFi - INDX CEO
17.12.2020
Source: Adobe/Михаил Зябликов
Traditional finance can't escape decentralized finance (DeFi). The former's move into digital currencies is bound to impact both, producing two main possible scenarios, according to Jonathan DeCarteret, CEO of tokenized crypto fund INDX Capital.
DeFi is light years...
Dictators turn delegates: Former CEOs grapple with DAO governance
17.12.2020
"A DAO is merely a formalizing of very deep and instinctive human bonds that I think have been suppressed."
How To Build An Exemplary Crypto Exchange
17.12.2020
With the right knowledge and partners, you could own your own crypto exchange. Here's how to build it
Massive Fake Celebrity-Endorsed Bitcoin Investment Campaign Duping Google, Facebook Traced to Moscow
17.12.2020
A massive bitcoin ad scam campaign — which features celebrities and mainly targeted Australians — has been traced. The investigation’s findings point to a “highly organized” global business that relies on five addresses in Moscow’s center. Massive Bitcoin Ad Scam...
DeFi on Binance Smart Chain: What’s Already Yielding?
16.12.2020
Source: Instagram, Binance
Launched on September 1, 2020, Binance Smart Chain (BSC) has already been noticed in the DeFi (decentralized finance) community. Let’s take a quick look into BSC and discuss some of the popular yield farming protocols on the new blockchain.
What is Binance Smart...
Mexico’s Biggest University Adds Course That Features Crypto Learning
16.12.2020
Latin America’s biggest and most prestigious university, the Mexico City-based National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) will launch a Financial Engineering course – with modules that reportedly cover subjects such as crypto and blockchain technology.
In its December bulletin, the UNAM...
Regulatory Kaleidoscope Challenges Crypto Industry - Crypto.com CCO
15.12.2020
An increasingly diverse and costly set of rules will keep challenging the crypto industry in 2021, Antonio Alvarez, Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) of Crypto.com, a major cryptoasset-powered debit card, trading, and lending services firm, told Cryptonews.com in an interview. According to him,...
Several Swiss Banks Are 'Ready to Go' Upon Crypto Gateway Launch - SDX
15.12.2020
The Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX) and its partners developing a new crypto gateway for Swiss banks are already in talks with several local banks, with some of them ready to go at the gateway launch, Tim Grant, Head of Business at the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) told Cryptonews.com. And these banks...
Representation Matters
15.12.2020
This year I had the pleasure of re-launching The Accessibility Project. I spend a lot of time researching and writing about accessibility and inclusive design, so this felt like the cumulation of a lot of that effort. The site now uses all sorts of cool web features like CSS Grid, @supports,...
MDN on GitHub
14.12.2020
Looks like all the content of MDN is on GitHub now. That’s pretty rad. That’s been the public plan for a while. Chris Mills:
We will be using GitHub’s contribution tools and features, essentially moving MDN from a Wiki model to a pull request (PR) model. This is so much better...
Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Chainlink Price Predictions for 2021
13.12.2020
2020 may be a hard act to follow for the cryptoasset market. Beginning on January 1 with a total market capitalization of around USD 190bn, the entire market has grown over USD 560bn in December.
This increase has unsurprisingly been paralleled by the performances of individual cryptoassets, with...
Crypto Exchanges to Spend 2021 Focusing on DeFi, UX, and New Services
12.12.2020
After cryptoassets themselves, exchanges are arguably the most important part of the crypto ecosystem. Without exchanges, individuals would have fewer means for buying and selling crypto, which in turn wouldn’t benefit from the impressive price rises that have driven so much investment into...
Bitcoining, Doubling, Confirming, Transforming and 20 Crypto Jokes
12.12.2020
In the world’s No 1 crypto news, in what might be an uneventful December price-wise, as more macro investors are buying into the bitcoin story, and bitcoin's current cycle seems to be "right on track" with "striking similarities" to the previous one, one of the most anticipated...
Plus: new Steam Hype features, December's Hype winners so far
12.12.2020
Who made out like a bandit?
Everything Your Mom Needs to Know About Crypto...But Was Afraid to Ask
9.12.2020
A speaker at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, which kicked off online today, thinks that crypto is not too complicated for your mother – or your father, for that matter. And even your grandmother could get to grips with bitcoin (BTC), blockchain and the rest, so long as she is able to get to grips...