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Why User Experience Is Crypto’s True ‘Killer App’
21.1.2020
There’s been a lot of buzz in the space recently about the importance of user experience. Kim Dotcom’s proclamation that “Mass utility is going to lead to mass adoption,” speaks to this. Peter Schiff’s bitcoin wallet fiasco, CZ’s claim that centralized exchanges...
Interview: Craig Wright Still ‘99.9999%’ Sure That He’ll Get BTC Fortune
20.1.2020
Despite bizarre courtroom mix-up of private and public keys, Craig Wright tells Cointelegraph that he’s confident he’ll get BTC fortune back
Bitcoin.com Partners With Mecon Cash, Enabling BCH to Korean Won Withdrawal at Over 13,000 ATMs Across South Korea
20.1.2020
Bitcoin Cash has been added to Mecon Cash’s M.Pay platform which is integrated with over 13,000 ATMs in South Korea. By making bitcoin cash usable for withdrawing won across the country, Mecon Cash is ensuring that BCH users in Korea can always make urgent and small transactions in any place...
The Design Squiggle
16.1.2020
I think we all have an intuitive understanding that, at the beginning of projects that require our creativity (be it design or code), things feel uncertain and messy. Then, as we go, things tend to straighten out. There is still some wiggling and setbacks, but by the end, we find a single solution...
Business Dad
15.1.2020
Congrats to Chris Enns, our podcast editor on ShopTalk and CodePen Radio, for landing a really cool new podcast to edit: Business Dad. It's Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, talking to dads. The first episode is with Hasan Minhaj(!)
Speaking of podcasting, Dave wrote up his thoughts...
Is it better to use ems/rems than px for font-size?
10.1.2020
The answer used to be absolutely yes because, if you used px units, you prevented the text from being resized by the user at all.
But browser zoom is the default method for making everything bigger (including text) these days and it works great even if you use px.
But... Kathleen McMahon really...
let vs. const
9.1.2020
There are multiple ways to declare variables in JavaScript. We had var, and while that still works like it always has, it is generally said that let and const are replacements to the point we rarely (if ever) need var anymore. This doodle explanation does a pretty good job, if you need...
Bitcoin Still Uncorrelated with Gold & Stocks; A New Trend Emerging?
8.1.2020
Bitcoin (BTC), the best performing asset of the last decade, ended 2019 on a far better note than both gold and the U.S. S&P 500 stock index, while still remaining uncorrelated to traditional assets, a new report from crypto exchange operator SFOX noted. However, there might be a new trend forming...
We Still Don’t Know Bitcoin’s Real Volume
6.1.2020
CoinDesk Research analyst Galen Moore unpacks the differences in reported trading volumes from three major data aggregators
SLP Devs Publish Code Bounties With $2,500+ in Crypto Rewards
5.1.2020
While a number of software developers work on the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) framework, SLP devs are still looking for other contributors to help foster the protocol’s ecosystem. In order to help bolster SLP development, the simpleledger.cash website has published requests for bounties...
Compared to Gaming and Gambling Dapps, DeFi Is Still Behind
3.1.2020
A closer look at the data shows that decentralized applications are struggling to gain traction, and DeFi is not the main use case
Adding Dynamic And Async Functionality To JAMstack Sites
2.1.2020
Jason Lengstorf:
Here’s an incomplete list of things that I’ve repeatedly heard people claim the JAMstack can’t handle that it definitely can:
Load data asynchronously
Handle processing files, such as manipulating images
Read from and write to a database
Handle user authentication and protect...
China’s Manufacturing Grows While Inflation Danger Still Looms Over the US
2.1.2020
As China and the US came close to conclude the talks on the first phase of the trade deal, a stronger Manufacturing activity in China has coincided. A Chinese official statement by the National Bureau of Statistics declared that the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) has remained at 50.2 in December....
A Recap of Frontend Development in 2019
1.1.2020
I noted Trey Huffine’s 2018 version of this article in The Great Divide.
To put a point on this divide a bit more, consider this article by Trey Huffine, "A Recap of Frontend Development in 2018." It's very well done! It points to big moments this year, shows interesting data, and makes...
A Recap of Frontend Development in 2019
1.1.2020
I noted Trey Huffine’s 2018 version of this article in The Great Divide.
To put a point on this divide a bit more, consider this article by Trey Huffine, "A Recap of Frontend Development in 2018." It's very well done! It points to big moments this year, shows interesting data, and makes...
Market Update: Crypto Traders Search for Bullish and Bearish Trends
29.12.2019
During the last few days, digital currency markets have been meandering sideways and prices have been less volatile. On Sunday, during the last 24 hours, the entire cryptoconomy is hovering just below the $200 billion zone and there’s roughly $71 billion in global trades. Crypto proponents...
Monero: King of Privacy Still Under the Bear’s Control
28.12.2019
Monero is a privacy-focused decentralized Cryptocurrency that uses an obfuscated public ledger, meaning anybody can broadcast or send transactions but no outside observer can tell the source, amount or destination. It is the gold standard among the privacy-focused Cryptocurrencies. It has a Market...
Chinese Regulators Warn Crypto Crackdown Is Still Effective
27.12.2019
Anyone harboring hopes that Beijing was softening its hardline stance on cryptocurrencies after its latest blockchain drive appears to have been thwarted – with a host of regulators in the country ruling out policy changes.
The crypto crackdown of 2017 was sweeping, with initial coin offerings...
YouTube Calls Crypto Purge a Mistake But Many Videos Still Missing
26.12.2019
YouTube shut down dozens of crypto videos in a move that it admits was a mistake
Highlights of the HTTP Archive Web Almanac
23.12.2019
I recently looked at the CSS chapter of the Web Alamanc and had some thoughts. Here, Stefan Judis looks at the whole thing and rounds up the most interesting bits to him. Here are most of them:
20% of sites don't compress their JavaScript.
React is on 5% of sites while jQuery is on 85% of sites....