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Visa Testing Regulatory Waters Before ‘Forcing Though’ its CBDC Solution
1.10.2021
="https://cryptonews.com/news/solana-gets-more-investments-than-ethereum-crypto-jobs-booming-more-news.htm">reported yesterday, Visa has unveiled its plans to create what it calls the Universal Payments Channel (UPC), which – in theory – would integrate a number of blockchain networks to enable
Downtrend Inevitable Though MATIC Consolidates at Strong Support
29.9.2021
Polygon (MATIC) is undoubtedly a promising cryptocurrency with decent scaling plans, but what would any plan do if the sentiment around cryptocurrencies is failing. Polygon has entered a strongly negative trend, and it will be challenging for it to get out of this selling pressure. Therefore, only...
Rich Dad Poor Dad Author Calls Evergrande a ‘House of Cards’ While China’s Officials Prep for Firm’s Demise
23.9.2021
The world is still focused on the financial downfall of China’s real estate giant Evergrande and according to Chinese authorities have told the private sector to get “ready for the possible storm.” Reports show that even though the People’s Bank of China already provided...
Jamstack Conf 2021
14.9.2021
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What? Jamstack Conf! It’s the best! Learn what’s happening and what’s next for this hot ecosystem.
When? October 6–7, 2021
Where? Virtual / online.
How much? It’s free! There are workshops as well though, …
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Dollar Registers Gain, Though Fed Keeps Investors Guessing
1.9.2021
The dollar’s value registered a slight gain on Wednesday in Asia even as it continued to trade at its lowest within the period of the last three weeks. The investors trod cautiously as numbers related to the US job market coming out on Friday will be important for the US Federal Reserve’s strategy...
Billionaire John Paulson Warns Cryptocurrencies Will Be Worthless, Bitcoin Too Volatile to Short
31.8.2021
Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson, famed for making a fortune betting against the U.S. housing market, says that cryptocurrencies are a bubble that will prove to be “worthless.” While he sees unlimited downside to crypto, he will not short bitcoin, however. “Even...
My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry
27.8.2021
That’s a heartwrenching title from Michael Williamson. I believe it though. It’s kinda like a maximized version of the blogging phenomenon where if you work on a post for weeks it’ll flop compared to a post that’s some dumb 20-minute …
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CSS Nesting, specificity, and you
10.8.2021
Here’s Kilian Valkhof on CSS nesting which isn’t available in browsers yet, but will be soon. There are a few differences he notes between CSS nesting and nesting in Sass or Less though. Take, for example, the following code:
div
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How to Get a Pixel-Perfect, Linearly Scaled UI
15.7.2021
Dynamically scaling CSS values based on the viewport width is hardly a new topic. You can find plenty of in-depth coverage right here on CSS-Tricks in articles like this one or this one.
Most of those examples, though, use …
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Bitcoin Taproot Support Lags at 27% — Even Though Soft Fork Is Opt-in Supporters Beg Nodes to Update
6.7.2021
On June 12, the crypto community celebrated the fact that the Bitcoin network locked in Taproot support in order to activate the largest upgrade the protocol has seen in four years. 24 days later, Taproot support via Bitcoin nodes has only reached 27.55% and upgrade supporters are pleading with...
System *Things
29.6.2021
I think we’re all largely aware of named colors in CSS:
color: OldLace;
background: rebeccapurple;
I guess you’d just call those “named colors” in CSS.
Those aren’t the only kind of named colors there are though. Some of them …
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Oracle Vinny Lingham Still Envisions $100K This Year if Bitcoin ‘Continues to Hold $30K’
28.6.2021
The former CEO of Gyft and the cofounder of the project Civic, Vinny Lingham has been called an ‘oracle’ at times for correctly predicting the future price of bitcoin. On various occasions all the way back to 2016, Lingham has made correct bitcoin price calls over the years. Even though...
The Possibilities of Syndication
11.6.2021
That’s the one word that isn’t an adjective in the acronym RSS.
Really Simple Syndication.
RSS isn’t just about RSS readers. Even though, gosh if I don’t love RSS readers. It’s about putting content in a format that is …
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Mystery Whale Returns by Moving $35 Million — Miner Transfers 1,000 ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ from 2010
9.6.2021
Two months after the mystery mining whale from 2010 transferred a string of 20 block rewards with 1,000 bitcoin on March 23, it seemed as though the entity was finished, after spending 10,000 bitcoin total. However, it took 78 days for the whale’s next move, as another 20 blocks from 2010...
Fed Begins to Taper QE- US Central Bank Removes $351 Billion in Liquidity via Reverse Repos
22.5.2021
After pumping extreme amounts of liquidity into markets, the U.S. Federal Reserve seems to be tapering back monetary easing policy via reverse repos (RRP). Following this week’s published minutes report from the Fed’s April monetary policy meeting, it seemed as though members of...
Advanced CSS Animation Using cubic-bezier()
13.5.2021
When dealing with complex CSS animations, there is a tendency to create expansive @keyframes with lots of declarations. There are a couple of tricks though that I want to talk about that might help make things easier, while staying in …
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CSS Smooth Scroll
19.4.2021
Improving the user experience of web applications has always been a priority of mine. I always come back to the same though I’ve had for 20 years: “users expect a web app to work — let’s make the app a joy to use.” Over the years we’ve employed JavaScript...
Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Now a Member of the Top 20 World’s Richest People
12.4.2021
This week our newsdesk covered the world’s wealthiest cryptocurrency billionaires after the American business magazine Forbes published the 2021 list of billionaires. Now it was mentioned in our report that Satoshi Nakamoto didn’t make the cut, even though Bitcoin’s inventor...
Investor Says Bitcoin Bull Run Is Not Just Getting Started, Run-up Is in the ‘Top of the 7th Inning’
12.4.2021
While bitcoin’s price has been consolidating for quite some time now, every now and then bulls have tried to press the price past the psychological all-time high captured in March. Meanwhile, a few bitcoiners have been saying that the bull market is “just getting started” even...
The Most Viewed Crypto Videos: Ethereum Captured More Views on Youtube in 12 Months Than Bitcoin
9.4.2021
Total Processing, a merchant services company has published a study this week about the most-watched cryptocurrency videos on Youtube during the last year. Even though bitcoin has climbed 700% since last April, ethereum has climbed 1,100% and videos pertaining to ethereum have accumulated the most...