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Geoff’s Redesign Posts
9.3.2020
I love it when people redesign "in the open" and write about it. I'd just like to shout out to our own Geoff who has been doing this for 3 months now. He started in late December last year. He's been sharing stuff like his dev tooling choices, considering performance, considering accessibility...
Curious About Bitcoin, Nigerians See Increasing Opportunities to Buy and Spend Cryptocurrencies
17.2.2020
Higher prices since the start of the year have been restoring popular interest in cryptocurrencies. Google searches for “bitcoin” have increased since December to about half of those registered in June last year. There’s one country that sticks out as a benchmark for...
Brussels Asks Europeans How to Regulate Bitcoin, Public Consultation Continues Into March
11.2.2020
The European Commission is gathering feedback from EU citizens, businesses, regulators and other interested parties to establish a regulatory framework for crypto assets and markets on a European level. The public consultation which started in December will continue until March 19, 2020, with...
Bitcoin Trust GBTC Shares Spike Despite 30% Premium
6.2.2020
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have seen significant gains as the entire cryptoconomy is up more than 40% since mid-December. Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) has also seen an uptick and shares have climbed 9% this week. The news follows the asset manager’s recent registration as...
Croatian Post’s Crypto Exchange 2 Months in: More Local Users, BTC, ETH, and XRP Favored by Customers
5.2.2020
In December news.Bitcoin.com reported on the Croatian Post’s launch of their own crypto exchange service. After a pilot run in the tourist friendly city of Zadar, the program was expanded to 55 post office branches nationwide starting December 11. Now almost two months in, Croatian Post...
Bitcoin Cash Sees Mining Pool Shift and Hashrate Surpass 4 Exahash
22.1.2020
While people have watched the BTC network surpass 100 exahash per second (EH/s), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has been steadily gathering hashrate as well. Since the November 15, 2018 blockchain split, which produced the Bitcoin SV (BSV) chain, BCH hashrate has jumped by more than 3x. Bitcoin cash is often...
Mining Giant Canaan Faces Stiff Competition After IPO Shares Slump
10.1.2020
On November 21, the Chinese mining rig manufacturer Canaan Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO) sale of $90 million worth of U.S. shares. Canaan shares initially sold for $8.99, but plummeted over 48% on December 16 to $4.65 per share. Since then, Canaan has launched a series of five...
Chipmaking Giant Samsung Reveals 3nm Semiconductor Prototype
6.1.2020
In mid-December, Intel revealed that the company expects to design 2nm and 1.4 nm semiconductors by 2029. During the same timeframe, regional sources reported Canaan and Bitmain will reveal new mining rigs this year equipped with TSMC-based 5nm chips. Now, competition is growing stronger as Samsung...
Travala Scores 33% Revenue Growth With 60% of Bookings Paid With Crypto
5.1.2020
Travala, the online platform that allows crypto users to book hotel rooms in thousands of destinations around the world, has registered remarkable growth in bookings during the Christmas holiday season. More than half of those in December were paid in cryptocurrency, with bitcoin cash among...
Coin Race: Top 10 Winners & Losers of December, Q4, and 2019
2.1.2020
2019 was most certainly an interesting year for crypto, with both bulls and bears coming and going quite often. We’ve seen the prices rally, including Bitcoin (BTC) making a historical jump, and we’ve seen those same prices fall quickly, leaving the market bloody. That said, much of the year behind...
Regulatory Roundup: China Blockchain ETF, France New Crypto Rules, Tokens Like Money in Russia
31.12.2019
In this roundup, we cover Russia’s supreme court recognizing tokens as assets like money and property, France’s new crypto regulatory framework, and several industry developments in China, including a blockchain ETF filing. We also cover Japan’s world conference for decentralized...
Why did Justin Sun donate to Greta Thunberg
31.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 31 December, 2019 “Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.” - Jean Paul In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Justin Sun's rationale behind his $1 million […]
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Why did Justin Sun donate to Greta Thunberg
31.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 31 December, 2019 “Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.” - Jean Paul In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Justin Sun's rationale behind his $1 million […]
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The UN must embrace blockchain
30.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 30 December, 2019 “I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.” - Sonam Kapoor In today's newsletter, we will be covering: the Treadway Commission issuing blockchain […]
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The UN must embrace blockchain
30.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 30 December, 2019 “I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.” - Sonam Kapoor In today's newsletter, we will be covering: the Treadway Commission issuing blockchain […]
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Mainstream Media’s Hit Piece on Hitmen Fails Miserably
28.12.2019
Mainstream media is probably one of the worst mediums for factual information because it’s typically filled with ignorance and propaganda. When it comes to cryptocurrencies, darknet markets, and encryption, conventional news outlets publish hit pieces that are beyond absurd. On December...
92000 ETH has been moved
27.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 27 December, 2019 “There's no such thing as a free lunch.” - Milton Friedman In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Ethereum co-founder reportedly selling 90k ETH to U.S. cryptocurrency exchange OKEx launching Bitcoin […]
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92000 ETH has been moved
27.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 27 December, 2019 “There's no such thing as a free lunch.” - Milton Friedman In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Ethereum co-founder reportedly selling 90k ETH to U.S. cryptocurrency exchange OKEx launching Bitcoin […]
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Ripple Price Analysis – December 27, 2019: Time to rise and shine!
27.12.2019
XRP may finally get back from its long slumber of a downtrend, as it touched the weekly critical support from where we saw its meteoric rise in the previous bull market. XRP Price Analysis: Weekly prices couldn’t do S/R (Support/Resistance) flip of the key level at $0.30 around Oct 2019 as denoted...
Why do we use .html instead of .htm?
26.12.2019
Interesting question from Andy:
Serious question. Why do we use .html instead of .htm? / @adactio @css
— Andy Clarke (@Malarkey) December 12, 2019
The most likely answer from the thread: DOS was a massive operating system for PCs for a long time and it had a three-character limit on file...