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DeFi Punches Above Its Weight As it Targets Bitcoin’s Thunder
26.7.2020
Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Max Holloway
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is seemingly stealing Bitcoin (BTC)’s thunder. Aside from some minor movements, BTC has been noticeably un-volatile in recent weeks, while the total value locked into DeFi platforms has risen from USD 1bn at the beginning...
Legend of Mir Developer Plays For Success In Blockchain Gaming Market
26.7.2020
Shane Kim, Wemade Tree’s CEO. When it comes to fast-growing businesses, very few can hold a candle to the gaming industry.
Per data compiled by Newzoo, there were over 2.5 billion video gamers in the world in 2016. Just what four years and the coronavirus pandemic have done to these figures...
Bitcoin Brokers In 'Very Important' Race For Big Investors - BitGo Prime CEO
25.7.2020
As prime brokerage has become an integral part of traditional financial markets, crypto industry players are racing to bring these services into this nascent market too. This would increase efficiency and encourage more institutional investors to allocate more of their funds to cryptoassets...
Very-Much Altseasons, Hard-Learned Lessons and 20 Crypto Jokes
25.7.2020
This week in crypto, bitcoin finally made a move, CZ said we’re very much in altseason now, mStable learned communication the hard way, LEND was up by 8,000% against bitcoin in 12 months, while research found that BTC hashrate could rise 120% in a year, but the price of the coin needs to follow....
A Deep-Dive Into Some of the ZERO Wallet's Advanced Security Features
24.7.2020
Cointelegraph gets techy with CEO Ruben Merre, on some of the NGRAVE wallet’s security advances
Tips for Starting with Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
21.7.2020
One of the most rewarding experiences of my life, both financially and logically, has been buying and managing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum. Like learning any other new tech, I made rookie mistakes along the way, but learned some best practices along the way. Check out these...
Creating a Gatsby Site with WordPress Data
20.7.2020
In my previous article last week, I mentioned creating a partially ported WordPress-Gatsby site. This article is a continuation with a step-by-step walkthrough under the hood.
Gatsby, a React-based framework for static sites, is attracting attention not only from JavaScript developers but also from...
Plutus Capital Unveils DeFi Lending App With Efficient Features
20.7.2020
Plutus Capital, a renowned financial and stock advisory firm has announced the news about the launch of a potential decentralized DeFi app offering the highest interest rates to the investors. The app has been designed to give the best-in-class financial tools to the users who strive to have full...
Crypto Insider Traders Run Free, Hurting Unregulated Market
19.7.2020
Source: Adobe/Евгений Вершинин
The crypto industry has an insider trading problem. While no official laws or regulations explicitly prohibit insider trading within crypto, industry observers suspect that it happens more often than you think.
Few crypto exchanges and companies are actually listed...
Expect More M&A As New Type of Buyers to Compete With 'Crypto Octopuses'
18.7.2020
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the crypto industry are likely to increase in the second half of 2020, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This is the opinion of industry players working in crypto and blockchain, who believe that the bigger companies are likely to step up their mergers...
Twitter Hack, Unmovable Bitcoin and 20 Crypto Jokes
18.7.2020
There is never a dull week in the cryptoverse and this week was no exception (except BTC price). Bitcoin miners now have to sweat more as mining difficulty reached a new all-time high, while Twitter had serious security issues that led to more than 13 BTC being stolen. Meanwhile, PayPal has been...
Bitcoin Pioneer LN Markets Raises Capital, Builds 'Liquidation Killer'
17.7.2020
LN Markets, the first bitcoin (BTC) derivatives exchange built on top of the Lightning Network (LN), reached USD 6m in total aggregate trading volume and is now raising capital in order to accelerate its growth.
The platform was launched in December 2019 in Beta, while their Alpha version went...
Forced Creativity: Why Bitcoin Thrives in Former Socialist States
15.7.2020
“People who work on Bitcoin understand the social impact of decentralization. Even though we now live in a free society, we can already see signs of ‘unfreedom’ or freedom being slowly taken away in many facets of life.”
Netlify Does Cache Invalidation For You
15.7.2020
This is one of my favorite Netlify features. Say you’re working on a site and you change as asset like a CSS, JavaScript, or image file. Ya know, like do our job. On Netlify, you don’t have to think about how that’s going to play out with deployment, browsers, and cache. Netlify...
As Money Printer Goes Brrrrr, Wall St Loses Its Fear of Bitcoin
14.7.2020
“I know anecdotally of several [investment managers] that have accumulated between $100 million and $500 million.”
Open Prioritization
14.7.2020
Like Kickstarter, but for Web Platform Features.
That’s about the quickest way to sum up Open Prioritization from Igalia. Igalia is an independent company that works on browsers. They literally commit to all the different open source browsers to implement (and fix) features that we all use....
Introducing Headless WordPress with Gatsby Cloud (Live Preview, Incremental Builds, and more!)
13.7.2020
The Gatsby team shipped an update to its source plugin for WordPress, graduating it to a beta release. The new version brings a new set of features to Gatsby’s headless WordPress configuration, which brings together WPGraphQL and WPGatsby to power a Gatsby front-end that pulls in data from...
Lazy Loaded Prefill Embeds
13.7.2020
Lemme sum this up:
CodePen has Embedded Pens. Build a Pen on CodePen, embed it on any other site.
We also offer Prefill Embeds, which remove that first step. With Prefill Embeds, the Pen doesn’t need to exist on CodePen at all. You pass in the code and settings you want to appear in...
DeFi Faces Multiple Challenges On Its Way To Dominate Crypto
11.7.2020
While Bitcoin (BTC) maximalists remain skeptical, many other industry players believe that DeFi, or decentralized finance, is set to become the dominant sector within the cryptoasset industry. Decentralized finance has already been one of the fastest-growing sectors for a couple of years now, while...
DOGETok Jumps, Playgrounds, Presidential Runs and 20 Crypto Jokes
11.7.2020
This week in the Cryptosphere, BTC miners were not selling them coins, and Venezuelan military intercepted a truck full of mining rigs. Chainlink hit an all-time high, and Dogecoin soared as TikTokers attempted to pump it, with Justin Sun joining the scene too, followed by a few exchanges. Cardano...