Crypto bonds! Volcanoes! What we know about the first ‘Bitcoin City’

Crypto bros could soon have a new dream destination. At a conference on Saturday, the president of El Salvador unveiled plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City.” Dressed in all white and donning a backward baseball cap,President Nayib Bukele looked more like a pop star than apolitician as he described an ecological metropolisfunded by Bitcoin-backed bonds. He compared his strategy to that of Alexander the Great founding cities that he humbly named after himself:...

4 min · 671 words · Haley Rocha

Cryptobros splash millions on rare ‘Dune’ book, think they own the copyright

A collective known as Spice DAO spent €2.66M ($3.04M) on a copy of Alejandro Jodorowsky’sDunebook. The problem is they want to turn the book into an animated show: We won the auction for €2.66M. Now our mission is to: Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) Produce an original animated limited series inspired by the book and sell it to a streaming service...

5 min · 975 words · Michael Hughes

Cryptocurrency isn’t as impenetrable as you think. This training even explains how to make your own

TLDR:The Cryptocurrency with Ethereum and Solidity Blockchain Developer Bundle explains the entire crypto phenomenon and also explores creating your own real world cryptocurrency. If your knowledge of cryptocurrency only extends as far as shaking your head dismissively when someone brings upElon Musk’s darling dogecoin, you might be missing the larger point. While much of the cryptocurrency market is still driven by wild speculation with minimal basis in real world logic, crypto and its blockchaining roots are anything but a fly-by-night idea....

3 min · 446 words · Julie Baldwin

Cryptography meets social media with Tweetcracker

To promote the release of the new Samsung Series 9, NYC’sBarbarian GroupcreatedTweetcracker, a cool throw back to code-cracking in the social media age. The web app lets users pretend to be spies to win a Samsung series 9 laptop and $10,000 in gold. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could crack a combination, use lasers to blast open a safe containing a Samsung Series 9 notebook, and carry off $10,000 in solid gold?...

2 min · 348 words · Jordan Miller

CSS Lint points out CSS problems, teaches you to code better

There are plenty of CSS tools on the web that look at your code and minify it, validate it, and so on. ButCSS Lintis one of the few that’s just as much of a tool for checking your CSS for problems as it is a learning experience. When you plop a bunch of CSS into CSS Lint, it combs through for problems, inefficiencies, and syntax errors. Unlike other tools, it doesn’t change your CSS....

2 min · 284 words · James Meadows
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