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Will Dash and Litecoin be Struck by Lighting?
Yesterday PayWithMoon announced that you could now shop at Amazon using Bitcoin. This is pretty much the ultimate goal of any cryptocurrency and deserves more investigation. I have long been convinced of Bitcoin’s claim to be the premier store of value but I have always been skeptical of … read the full article Will Dash…
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Are You a Crypto Slashie?
The BBC published an article yesterday about “slashies“. This being the BBC, I assumed that it referred to a new sexual orientation and that LGBT+ was not enough (thank god for Unicode). But no, It refers to the fact that many of us now have two different careers or roles. For… read the full article…
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Abolish “Free” Banking to Help The Poor
UK banks don’t want poor customers so regulators should allow crypto to do the job… read the full article Abolish “Free” Banking to Help The Poor on the crypto directory CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY.read the full article Abolish “Free” Banking to Help The Poor on CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY.
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Decentralise or Dia
The saga of the stable-ish coin Dai continued this week with the revelation that 90% of the debt is concentrated in 250 Collateralised Deposit Positions (CDP). Dai is issued by a decentralised autonomous organisation called MakerDAO. Users deposit Ethereum and can borrow Dai which is pegged to 1… read the full article Decentralise or Dia…
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Let’s string up the bankers
This is political theatre at its best. If there were Oscars this lady would win hands down (although she might be “too white” …) Quite why the CEO of a bank should be responsible for the life choices of someone who does not even work for him is beyond me.
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Stablecoins: Users are strung up and Dai
Tether and Dai are two prominent stablecoins. Each has its benefits and challenges. Tether Tether used to claim that every coin was backed by USD in their bank. No-one believed them and it was suspected that they ran a fractional reserve and used the free capital to make money on Bitfinex. After… read the full…
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The biggest lie is not “I will love you forever”
The biggest lie is not “I will love you forever”. It is Google saying that the best way to have get traffic is to have compelling content. I admit that if I was a teenage girl I might see things differently but I am a 54 year old man launching a website. Launch Day 1:…
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“Realising the potential of technology in Education” is very good.
“Realising the potential of technology in Education” was announced by the Education Secretary yesterday and it looks very good. I had the privilege of being CIO at Dulwich College for four years until I left last year and I am a governor of a state maintained school. I have always been of the opinion that…
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Quotes – better straight than bent
I will be launching CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY soon (“Find Rated Crypto Businesses”) which is built on WordPress. JSON Requires Straight Quotes Many integrations are required and at one point I stash some JSON from the database in a DIV and then read it into Javascript (it would be better to use AJAX but I am doing this…
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WordPress API returns HTML not JSON
Summary I found that in some cases the WordPress API was returning HTML not JSON. Inspection of the HTML showed that I was being redirected to the login page by Formidable Registration Plugin when basic authentication failed. Steps to Resolution The steps to resolution were, Disable all plugins Install Basic Auth plugin from https://github.com/WP-API/Basic-Auth…
Dr James Bayley 