Yesterday's issue loading images on my blog post about the state of offline reading for web development content appears to have been resolved, so I'm linking to the article again, it will make much more sense now with the images. I tried reading Chris' CSS article again last night, noticed that many of the images only load as you scroll down the page. I wonder if that might be what's preventing them from making it into the saved offline version. Anyway, good morning everyone, time for coffee :) markjgsmith.com #
2023/06/27 #
Today’s links:
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Leveraged Bitcoin Futures ETF to Start Trading Tuesday - Good news though a few things stand out, no idea how relevant. It's a futures based ETF rather that a spot ETF, which the Blackrock application was for. Rather than say it was explicitly approved, says only that it wasn't blocked. www.coindesk.com #
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IMF says banning crypto assets may not be effective long-term - The institution which is likely one of the most important financial institution in the world, appears to be softening their stance on crypto after being a long time critic. This made me smile a bit, comes just 3 days after my blog post about crypto not being enough. Ain't that always the way [rolls eyes]. www.theblock.co #
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JPMorgan Starts Euro Blockchain Payments for Corporates - Corporate use of crypto is a big theme currently, so it's noteworthy when one of the world's biggest banks introduces crypto rails, making it possible for large corporates to transfer large amounts dollars or euros outside of business hours. Crypto runs 24/7/365. It will be interesting to follow the popularity, currently it's used for $300 billion out of total possible $10 trillion of payments. So called "digital asset" projects appear to be the new black. Michael Saylor refers to this as the transition from physical to digital property. www.bloomberg.com #
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‘ZK embodies integrity, privacy and magic’: Matter Labs - I've so far mostly concentrated on bitcoin when it comes to learning about crypto and DeFi. It's interesting to hear alt coin folks exploring internet fundamentals, being open to hard lessons learnt by previous generations of tech innovators, especially around soveraignty and gate-keepers. It reminds me a bit of the explosion of open source and creative commons licensing during web2.0. Diversity is great, but it gets kind of confusing. I hope things settle down to the point where we have a handful of well understood contenders, the equivalent of MIT, GPL, Apache etc. blockworks.co #