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Can the Fed Kill Bitcoin? Navigating the Chokepoints of Tax Law and KYC
9.8.2019
Taxes. The one word that can kill any buzz in seconds flat. Whether you’re a libertarian ranting about how taxation is theft or one of those fabled creatures who is actually happy to file them as their so-called civic duty, one fact remains: those who don’t give the government a bite...
Ethereum Price Analysis: Will Bulls Make an Entry for Ethereum (ETH)?
9.8.2019
Ethereum, a popular and second-largest coin on the blockchain platform, has been gearing itself for the release of Ethereum 2.0 in early 2020. The YTD chart shows the price of Ethereum had peaked during June being as high as $330 on June 25 and after that, the bears were in continual motion showing...
Using Immer for React State Management
7.8.2019
We make use of state to keep track of application data. States change as users interact with an application. When this happens, we need to update the state that is displayed to the user, and we do this using React’s setState.
Since states are not meant to be updated directly (because React’s state...
How to Shuffle BCH and Keep Your Transactions Private With Cashshuffle
6.8.2019
As blockchain surveillance becomes more prevalent, cryptocurrency advocates have created ways to make digital currency transactions more private. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has an application called Cashshuffle, which allows users to shuffle their BCH with other fractions of BCH to obfuscate...
More Cities and Regions Accepting Coins for Taxes, Services
6.8.2019
Cryptocurrency payments, as convenient as they can be, are still something most governments are trying to wrap their heads around and regulate. Local authorities, however, being closer to the citizens they are called upon to serve, are often quicker to adopt novelties that make their lives and...
then on Objects
5.8.2019
Promises were a revelation in JavaScript development, allowing us to enjoy async processing and avoid callback hell. Many new APIs like Battery API, Cache API, and others use the promise API. One fact you may not know is that you can add a then method to any object to make it Promise-like!...
Pre-Register for Bitcoin.com’s New Crypto Exchange to Win Bitcoin Cash Prizes
1.8.2019
Over the last few years, Bitcoin.com has striven to make digital assets more accessible to everyone in the world. In June we launched our peer-to-peer bitcoin cash marketplace Local.Bitcoin.com and this September we’re launching our very own exchange with over 50 trading pairs. Today...
Fetching Data in React using React Async
1.8.2019
You’re probably used to fetching data in React using axios or fetch. The usual method of handling data fetching is to:
Make the API call.
Update state using the response if all goes as planned.
Or, in cases where errors are encountered, an error message is displayed to the user.
There will always...
Creating Dynamic Routes in a Nuxt Application
30.7.2019
In this post, we’ll be using an ecommerce store demo I built and deployed to Netlify to show how we can make dynamic routes for incoming data. It’s a fairly common use-case: you get data from an API, and you either don’t know exactly what that data might be, there’s a lot of it, or it might change....
Ethereum Price Analysis: Will Bulls Finally Make an Entry for Ethereum (ETH)?
27.7.2019
Ethereum has been going through phases of bear and bull moments through the current week Ethereum is a largely popular coin on the blockchain platform has been in the news for its eagerly awaited Ethereum 2.0 which is expected to make the network more robust and user-friendly. Ethereum had a good...
VeChain Price Analysis: VeChain (VET) Expected to Make a Bounce Back Soon; The Downward Trend Seized
26.7.2019
ENN Energy Holdings Limited, one of the largest power sector company in China, has joined hands with VeChainThor Blockchain. The aim of this tie-up is to ensure optimal quality control and supply-chain management. Additionally, Shanghai Gas, a state-owned company that supplies more than 90%...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Trading Near Make-or-Break Levels
26.7.2019
Yesterday, we saw a decent rise in bitcoin price above the USD 10,000 level, but also discussed hurdles near the USD 10,200 level. BTC/USD failed to continue above USD 10,200 and it started a downside correction. The price declined below USD 10,000 and tested the USD 9,650 support. Similarly, there...
How Government Agencies Make Criminals of Crypto Traders
26.7.2019
A New Jersey man has been indicted this week for converting over $2 million to bitcoin and operating a private exchange business not registered with the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. According to a July 24 press release by the U.S. Attorney’s office, 46-year-old William Green could face...
Don’t comma-separate :focus-within if you need deep browser support
24.7.2019
I really like :focus-within. It's a super useful selector that allows you to essentially select a parent element when any of its children are in focus.
Say you wanted to reveal some extra stuff when a <div> is hovered...
div:hover {
.extra-stuff {
/* reveal it */
}
}
That's...
US, EU and Japan Could Trigger ‘Cold Currency War’ by Debasing Fiat
24.7.2019
The world’s major central banks are waging war to determine who can make their respective fiat currency weaker. With the likelihood of even more money printing and negative interest rates ahead, people need to be ready to see the value of their money evaporate and the price of everything else...
Japanese Exchanges Ask Regulator to Make Cryptocurrency Tax Reforms
23.7.2019
Source: iStock/violet-blue
The self-governing Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA) has asked the country’s top financial regulator to change the way cryptocurrency-related earnings are taxed.
The JVCEA represents all of Japan’s licensed cryptocurrency exchanges and a range...
CoinMarketCap’s enigmatic founder to make his first public appearance
19.7.2019
We are hosting our first-ever large-scale conference! NEW YORK, JULY 18, 2019 – For the first time, our enigmatic founder will take the stage at our first large-scale conference happening on November 12-13 in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands. […]
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CoinMarketCap’s enigmatic founder to make his first public appearance
19.7.2019
We are hosting our first-ever large-scale conference! NEW YORK, JULY 18, 2019 – For the first time, our enigmatic founder will take the stage at our first large-scale conference happening on November 12-13 in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands. […]
The post CoinMarketCap’s enigmatic founder...
How US Congress Can Make Stablecoins and Libra Irrelevant
16.7.2019
Source: iStock/Uko_Jesita
It is well-known by now that U.S. lawmakers and now even members of President Trump’s cabinet are highly skeptical about Facebook’s proposed Libra stablecoin. And although regulators and governments in parts of the world have tried their best to control digital tokens...
Build a Chat App Using React Hooks in 100 Lines of Code
15.7.2019
We’ve looked at React Hooks before, around here at CSS-Tricks. I have an article that introduces them as well that illustrates how to use them to create components through functions. Both articles are good high-level overviews about the way they work, but they open up a lot of possibilities...