Bitcoinization: JPMorgan Sees No ‘Tangible Economic Benefits’ of Bitcoin as Legal Tender
JPMorgan has offered its view on the bitcoinization of El Salvador, the country which recently made bitcoin legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar. JPMorgan says, “It is difficult to see any tangible economic benefits associated with adopting bitcoin as a second form of legal tender.” JPMorgan on the Bitcoinization of El Salvador JPMorgan & Chase’s Latin American research team published a report titled “The Bitcoinization of El...
Reddit Orders ‘SaveVideo’ Bot to Shut Down or Face Lawsuit
Reddit is one of the most popular sites on the Internet, ranking 19th in the world and 8th in the United States according to Alexa data. The social sharing website is built around users submitting text, images, and videos, allowing users to vote on content and pushing the most popular items to the top. While much of Reddit’s content is hosted externally, millions of items of multimedia content are hosted locally – unless users make...
Brazil’s Anti-Piracy “Operation 404” Leads to Arrests, Shutdowns, and Site Blocking
In the fall of 2019, Brazilian law enforcement conducted a large anti-piracy campaign codenamed ‘Operation 404,’ referring to the well-known HTTP error code. With help from international law enforcement, the authorities took down hundreds of sites and apps and arrested several suspects. A year later a new wave of anti-piracy action followed. Under the banner “Operation 404 #2”, law enforcement authorities blocked or seized the domain...
Use VS Code to develop in containers
Coding and testing inconsistencies are a risk when you have multiple developers with different development environments working on a project. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an integrated development environment (IDE) that can help minimize these issues. It can be combined with containers to provide separate development environments for each application alongside a consistent development environment. read more Powered by...
Use XMLStarlet to parse XML in your the Linux terminal
Learning to parse XML is often considered a complex venture, but it doesn’t have to be. XML is highly and strictly structured, so it’s relatively predictable. There are also lots of tools out there to help make the job manageable. read more Powered by...
