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Atari's VCS reboot promises standard blockchain gaming features
24.9.2020
The hybrid console/PC will come with the Ultra blockchain-enabled gaming platform integrated into the system
DeFi Unlocked: How to Earn Interest Lending Crypto using Aave
20.9.2020
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/aave.aave
DeFi is all the rage in the digital asset market. There is seemingly something for everyone among the crypto-savvy folk, from incredibly high-yielding (and unsustainable) new protocols to established blockchain-powered savings apps.
In our new “DeFi...
In Devs We Trust: Bitcoin Bugs Die in Secret, Leaving Altcoins At Risk
19.9.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) is regularly championed as the most secure cryptocurrency out there, but even it’s vulnerable to the occasional bug, also meaning that BTC forks might be suffering from the same problem.
This unavoidable fact was brought home at the beginning of September, when a research paper...
Uniswaps, Bitcoin Wraps, and 20 Crypto Jokes
19.9.2020
Unsurprisingly, the last seven days have shown us that Bitcoin whales are actively accumulating BTC throughout 2020, and MicroStrategy CEO doubled-down on the company’s bitcoin bet as “trillions are melting in treasuries.” Major crypto exchange Kraken has received a banking charter, while Kiss star...
Enforcing performance budgets with webpack
18.9.2020
As you probably know, a single monolithic JavaScript bundle — once a best practice — is no longer the way to go for modern web applications. Research has shown that larger bundles increase memory usage and CPU costs, especially on mid-range and low-end mobile devices.
webpack has a lot of features...
Programmable money: How crypto tokens could change our entire experience of value transfer
16.9.2020
Covid-19 stimulus payments "could have been done in a few seconds, at no (distribution) cost. It would have been a no-brainer.”
Editing HTML Like A Boss In VS Code
16.9.2020
Here’s a seven minute video from Caleb Porzio that focuses on some of Emmet‘s HTML editing features. You might think of Emmet as that thing that expands abbreviations like table.stats>tr*3>td*3 into glorious, expanded, and perfect HTML. But Emmet has other HTML editing trickery...
DeFi Unlocked: How to Earn Crypto Investment Income on Uniswap
15.9.2020
The Uniswap logo. DeFi has continued to hold the crypto community's attention, cementing its position as the hottest crypto trend this year. The booming decentralized finance market unlocked a new milestone on September 1 when amounts locked in its protocols surpassed the USD 9bn, before correcting...
Interaction Media Features and Their Potential (for Incorrect Assumptions)
14.9.2020
The Media Queries Level 4 Interaction Media Features — pointer, hover, any-pointer and any-hover — are meant to allow sites to implement different styles and functionality (either CSS-specific interactivity like :hover, or JavaScript behaviors, when queried using window.matchMedia), depending...
Understanding Oracles In The Blockchain World - A Not-Too-Technical Primer
14.9.2020
In the world of distributed ledgers, oracles provide a link between blockchain technology and the real world.
In this article, you will be introduced to how oracles work and why they are important for the blockchain industry.
What are oracles and why are they important?
An oracle is a tool that...
Apple Censors Some Cryptocurrency and Defi Features of Coinbase App
13.9.2020
Apple Inc. has censored some cryptocurrency features of the Coinbase app. Specifically, Apple has blocked Coinbase from adding to its iOS app the ability to earn money using cryptocurrency and access to decentralized finance (Defi) apps. Apple vs. Coinbase Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been...
Why DeFi Isn’t Always As Decentralized As You Might Think
13.9.2020
With the word ‘decentralized’ in its name, you’d think that DeFi (decentralized finance) would be pretty decentralized. If a platform claims to be DeFi, this should mean that it isn’t under the control of any single party or entity, and that it operates as a function of a large and dispersed number...
DeFi’s ‘Total Value Locked In’ Metric Is A Crooked Mirror
12.9.2020
DeFi (decentralized finance) could boast of only USD 1bn in total value locked in as recently as the beginning of June. This rose by a whopping 860% in the three months to September 2, hitting USD 9.6bn.
These figures haven’t escaped their fair share of scrutiny, however. Collected by DeFi Pulse...
Cooking, Slicing, Trimming, Merging, Migrating, and 20 Crypto Jokes
12.9.2020
This crypto week, bitcoin price dropped, and so did the mining difficulty, and we learned that "exclusive mining" can also be used for tax evasion and money laundering. Then, SUSHI trimmed some of its losses after FTX CEO agreed to take over the admin keys from Chef Nomi, and then...
DeFi Unlocked: How to Earn Crypto Investment Income on Compound
10.9.2020
DeFi (decentralized finance) has emerged as the hottest crypto trend of the year, with the total amount of US dollars locked in decentralized finance protocols surpassing USD 9bn on September 1 before correcting lower.
In our new “DeFi Unlocked” series, we will introduce you to the different ways...
Hummingbot Partners with Crypto.com to Bring New Features
10.9.2020
Open source crypto trading network Hummingbot announced on Thursday that it has partnered with leading crypto trading platform Crypto.com to add new features to the exchange platform. As per the official tweet, these features include bot trading option and liquidity mining, and the integration with...
Setting up and Customizing the Ant Design System in a Nuxt App
9.9.2020
I don’t typically work with UI libraries because they can be cumbersome and hard to override, which can contribute to a bloated. However, Ant Design has recently gained some some of my affection because it’s easy to use, has extensible defaults, and features a delicate design.
Nuxt and...
Jetpack 8.9: Take Donations, Capture Email Subscribers, AMP integration, and More
8.9.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Jetpack 8.9 shipped on September 1 and it shows why the plugin continues to be the premier way to take a WordPress site from good to holy smokes! Several new features are packed into the release, but a few really stand out.
Take donations with a new block
The first...
A new enterprise blockchain features private real-life identities, but not without controversy
8.9.2020
Combining privacy and auditability requires unconventional solutions
Bitcoin And Ethereum Scale Slower Than Cryptoverse Grows
6.9.2020
Scalability is a specter that won’t stop haunting crypto. While certain (mostly newer and less decentralized) blockchains — Ripple (XRP), EOS, and Tron — boast the ability to handle thousands of transactions per second, many of the larger, established, more decentralized and secure blockchains...