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2019 Year in Review

5.12.2019
The beginning of every year starts out with all of us setting ambitious goals — goals being personal and professional. Many of us rarely complete half of those goals, most abandoning them by the end of the year. In January of this year I published my list of goals for the year. Let’s...

Crypto Startups to Get up to $75,000 From the Government of Ukraine

5.12.2019
Ukrainian crypto companies can now receive up to $75,000 each in the form of government sponsored grants. A special fund set up by the authorities in Kiev is already accepting applications from startups in various high tech sectors including the blockchain industry. Over $1.5 million will...

Circle Warns Poloniex US Customer Assets May Be Sent to the Government

5.12.2019
As part of its release of the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, Circle may begin charging fees to Poloniex US customers. And the company warns that any unclaimed digital assets, those in dormant accounts, may be sent to state governments, consistent with relevant regulations for abandoned property....

Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Fighting to Escape Binance’s Shadow

5.12.2019
It’s impossible to assess the cryptocurrency landscape without considering Binance. It looms large over the industry, dictating trends, soaking up liquidity, and compelling new exchanges to fight tooth and nail for market share. Most exchanges aren’t gunning to become the next Binance....

Onecoin Websites Suspended as the $4 Billion Ponzi Crumbles

5.12.2019
The MLM monitoring publication behindmlm.com revealed on Dec. 1 that the infamous Ponzi scheme Onecoin’s website onecoin.eu has gone offline. According to the domain host Eurid, the onecoin.eu domain name is currently “under legal investigation.” Onecoin’s website going...

The Fed’s Money Creation System Is Fueling One of the Biggest Heists in History

4.12.2019
Since mid-September, the Federal Reserve has injected three trillion U.S. dollars into the hands of private banks and Wall Street. Despite the fact that massive amounts of money was created out of thin air, the central bank still believes repurchase agreements (repos) are needed to tame...

The Many Facts Pointing to Shinichi Being Satoshi

4.12.2019
A lesser known, yet uniquely compelling candidate for the real Satoshi Nakamoto is Japanese mathematician and number theorist Shinichi Mochizuki. With a long history of mathematical innovation, and purportedly proving conjectures thought to be near impossible to verify, he seems to almost come from...

ILCoin Launches With 5GB Blocks

4.12.2019
ILCoin Blockchain Project set a new record for stable block size - when it successfully released a 5Gb block. This achievement became possible after the project introduced RIFT protocol, which allows to increase the block size and keep high transaction speed. With these qualities, RIFT effectively...

$4 Billion US Fintech Startup Sofi Receives New York Bitlicense

4.12.2019
Sofi is a startup valued at over $4 billion which is focusing on providing millennials with student loan refinancing, personal loans, mortgages, and other wealth management and financial services. In September it has added crypto trading to its investing platform as a response to demand from...

WhoCanUse

4.12.2019
There are loads of microsites and developer tools for looking at color accessibility, including tools built right into browser DevTools. They often show you if a color passes AA or AAA WCAG guidelines. But color contrast is more complicated than that because there is a wide variety of vision...

The New Klim Type Website is Impossibly Lovely

4.12.2019
I’ve spent the last hour hunched over the new Klim Type foundry website with my arms outstretched as if it was a fire in a very dark cave. Klim Type makes and sells wondrous fonts — like Tiempos, and National 2 or Pitch — and this fresh redesign now showcases them in all their glory. Here’s...

British Virgin Island announces a USbacked digital currency

4.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 4 December, 2019 “There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” - Aldous Huxley In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Ethereum's proposed hard […] The post British Virgin...

British Virgin Island announces a USbacked digital currency

Banks Are Cutting 75,700 Jobs Worldwide

4.12.2019
Banks worldwide have announced major job cuts this year. Globally, 75,700 jobs are reportedly being eliminated, with the most recent announcement coming from Italy’s largest bank. Unicredit has become the latest major bank to unveil layoff plans, joining Deutsche Bank, Santander, Commerzbank...

European Banks Struggle With Low Interest Rates and Strict Regulations

4.12.2019
Banks in Europe have been in a difficult spot lately. A new report reveals that financial institutions across the region faced serious difficulties in the 2018 financial year, and despite all the cost cutting that followed, haven’t managed to compensate the revenue decline in 2019....

Japan Now Has 21 Approved Crypto Exchanges

4.12.2019
Japan’s top financial regulator has approved the remaining crypto exchange that was in business prior to the regulation of the crypto industry. Exchanges in this category were allowed to continue operations while their registration applications were being reviewed. The regulator has so...

Dark Mode Favicons

4.12.2019
Oooo! A bonafide trick from Thomas Steiner. Chrome will soon be supporting SVG favicons (e.g. <link rel="icon" href="/icon.svg">). And you can embed CSS within an SVG with a <style> element. That CSS can use a perfers-color-sceme media query, and as a result, a favicon that supports...

New List Claims 1.9 Million Bitcoin Held by Centralized Exchanges

3.12.2019
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been discussing a newly developed exchange ranking developed by the crypto portfolio and trading bot startup Bituniverse. According to a leaked screenshot of Bituniverse’s “Exchange Transparent Balance Rank,” there’s roughly 1.9 million...

Wisdomtree’s Physically Backed Bitcoin ETP Goes Live on SIX Stock Exchange

3.12.2019
New York-based ETF provider Wisdomtree has launched a physically backed bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) on Switzerland’s SIX stock exchange. According to Wisdomtree, the new product is not cash-settled like most ETPs traded on the SIX exchange as the BTCW investment product will...

State of JavaScript 2019 Survey

3.12.2019
Well, hey, look at that — it's time for this year's State of JavaScript survey! You have taken this survey last year. Or in 2017. Or in 2016. It's been going on for a little while now and it always lends interesting insights into things like the features developers are using, the popularity...