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Loophole in U.S. Tax Law Could Allow Bitcoin Traders to Write off Unlimited Losses
10.6.2020
A loophole in the U.S. tax law could allow qualified bitcoin traders to write off unlimited losses from their trading activities, according to an expert from crypto tax platform Coin Tracker. Traders, defined by U.S tax collection agency Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as people who trade...
Bitcoin Hashrate Spikes to 120 Exahash: Difficulty Drops Allowing Miners to Rejoin the Competition
7.6.2020
The Bitcoin hashrate is up this weekend after the network experienced it’s fourth negative difficulty adjustment this year. The Bitcoin (BTC) protocol’s difficulty adjustment dropped over 9% on June 4, giving miners who shut off their machines a chance to join the competition once...
Forget $10K, Bitcoin $12K Breakout Will Catch Everyone Off Guard
7.6.2020
Is Bitcoin allergic to $10,000? Will we see a breakout in 2020 for BTC as this key level keeps being tested each week
Exoduses and Ex-Communications: Blowing Off Steemit with Andrew Levine
4.6.2020
“I think Steem is going to go down in history as the greatest blockchain you’ve never heard of.”
First Mover: Bitcoin Market, Like Wall Street, Shrugs Off Nationwide Protests
4.6.2020
Protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis could have implications for inflation and trust in the financial system
Ethereum Has Become Bitcoin’s Top Off-Chain Destination
4.6.2020
The most popular way to use bitcoin off-chain is on Ethereum, recent data indicates
Behind the Source: Cassie Evans
3.6.2020
I feel like the tech industry takes itself far too seriously sometimes. I get frustrated by all the posturing and gatekeeping – “You’re not a real developer unless you use x framework”, “CSS isn’t a real programming language”.
I think this kind of rhetoric often puts new developers off,...
Overlapping Header with CSS Grid
1.6.2020
Snook shows off a classic design with an oversized header up top, and a content area that is “pulled up” into that header area. My mind goes to the same place:
Historically, I’ve done this with negative margins. The header has a height that adds a bunch of padding to the bottom...
Bitcoin Shrugs Off Goldman Sachs’ Criticism With Price Spike
29.5.2020
The crypto community has laughed off Goldman Sachs’ outdated analysis, with the Bitcoin price increasing more than 8% since
Devcon 6: 2020 is a Write-Off, Let’s Try 2021 in Columbia
29.5.2020
The Ethereum Foundation has postponed Devcon VI until 2021 and will host it in Bogota, Colombia
Do Zero-Reserve Loans Make Tether Better Off Backed by Bitfinex Stock?
27.5.2020
With the Federal Reserve now allowing US banks to issue loans with zero reserve, is Tether better off backed by Bitfinex shares than dollars backed by nothing?
Get Programmatic Control of your Builds with Netlify Build Plugins
27.5.2020
Today at Jamstack_Conf, Netlify announced Build Plugins. What it does is allow you to have particular hooks for events within your build, like when the build starts or ends. What’s nice about them is that they’re just a plain ‘ol JavaScript object, so you can insert some logic...
Ethereum Privacy Protocol Takes Foot Off Brake With Entirely Immutable Contracts
24.5.2020
Tornado.cash can no longer make changes to its protocol, offering total immutability at the expense of security
Let’s Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages
22.5.2020
Apple is well-known for the sleek animations on their product pages. For example, as you scroll down the page products may slide into view, MacBooks fold open and iPhones spin, all while showing off the hardware, demonstrating the software and telling interactive stories of how the products...
Vite Labs Announces Integration with Chainlink to Launch it Various Products that Require Off-Chain Data
22.5.2020
World’s first DAG enabled smart contracts platform Vite Labs announced on Friday that it is integrating with leading decentralized oracle network Chainlink. As per the official tweet, this will help Vite Labs launch its various products that require off-chain data, which Chainlink will provide....
A “new direction” in the struggle against rightward scrolling
21.5.2020
You know those times you get a horizontal scrollbar when accidentally placing an element off the right edge of the browser window? It might be a menu that slides in or the like. Sometimes we to overflow-x: hidden; on the body to fix that, but that can sometimes wreck stuff like position:...
Brazil Watchdog Reopens Probe into Banks that Cut off Crypto Exchanges
21.5.2020
There is new hope for the Brazilian crypto exchanges whose banking activities were halted abruptly some two years ago by a collective comprising some of the nation’s top commercial banks.
Per news agency FolhaPress, the Brazilian finance watchdog, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense...
Why Have Cryptocurrency Payments Failed to Take Off So Far?
21.5.2020
Cointelegraph interviewed merchants and executives from Crypto.com and Pundi X to learn about the current state of crypto payments for retail customers
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Rebounds to $9,500 After Scary Sell-off
20.5.2020
Downward bitcoin prices could impact stakeholders more than ever before, including derivatives traders and miners
Hyperblock Bitcoin Mining Servers and Datacenter Infrastructure to Be Auctioned off in Public Sale
20.5.2020
Thousands of mining servers and all the datacenter infrastructure needed to operate them will be auctioned off in an upcoming public sale of Hyperblock’s property. The company has announced on Thursday, May 14, 2020, that its 20MW Montana, USA datacenter went offline and that it has ceased...