Report: Token Listings Have Short Term Positive Influence on Price, M&A Have Better Impact in the Long Term
A study by Etoro and The Tie find listing and partnership announcements as significant developments (Sigdev) that have an immediate, large, and positive influence on token price. This influence, which peaks within the first 24 hours, usually wears off after a week, according to the study report. The Impact of a New Token Listing Yet, on the other hand, funding, as well as Merger and Acquisitions announcements, tend to have positive...
20 Years Ago, LimeWire Took File-Sharing to A New Level
Twenty years ago, a new trend called file-sharing started to conquer the Internet. What used to be a niche activity, only reserved for the technically inclined, suddenly became a popular pastime for the masses. At the turn of the century, Napster was the first to be widely embraced, which happened to be right around the time MP3 players became popularized as well. This new sharing culture did not just intrigue music-loving teens. It...
An Extraordinarily Successful Anti-Piracy Campaign…Or Maybe Not
Over the past few decades there have dozens of campaigns aimed at preventing people from either copying, downloading, or sharing pirated content. From ‘Don’t Copy That Floppy’ to ‘You Wouldn’t Download a Car’, these campaigns have enjoyed questionable success but at least in the case of these examples, getting the actual anti-piracy ads out there hasn’t been a problem. Millions of people have seen these shorts over the years, which if...
5 reasons to use Linux in 2020
Some of the best technology is a moving target. When technology stagnates, society tends to outpace and outgrow it. Linux, the widely used open source operating system (OS), is a foundational technology and the basis for some of the most progressive modern computing ideas. So, while it’s startlingly unchanged after three decades of development, it also allows adaptation. read more Powered by...
4 reasons why JavaScript is so popular
As this chart from GitHub’s State of the Octoverse report shows, JavaScript has consistently been most popular programming language based on the number of contributors to projects on GitHub. read more Powered by...
