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Every new investor who wants to take a piece of the blockchain’s cake, must know how to secure the investment and ensure it reaches its optimal potential. A priority for regulations, as unwieldy as it appears, really is the answer.

How long did the news about John McAfee’s death occupy your thoughts? Long enough to remind us about his controversies, and not long enough to remember his achievements. "To this day, as Reuters reports, McAfee's remains are still in a Spanish morgue…"

Developers created one entity class and one repository for each table in the relational data model. Over time, the volume of data grew, entities acquired additional fields, and the number of connections increased. At this point, the developers decided to write native SQL queries to improve performance. This created architectural problems since such queries often use the features of a particular SQL dialect for...

The first impression your crypto marketing campaigns make is the first impression that the general public will leave with for a long time. Listing your coin on CoinMarketCap, Exchanges, and CoinGecko is the most important step to market your crypto project. Establish a relationship with a journalist who has an affinity for your project and an audience of people interested in the crypto gaming...

The idea behind creating a quick response (QR) code generator is to translate data from images to text. A QR code is simply the representation of image data as text, and it has a lot of useful applications from restaurant menus and concert tickets, to online calendar invites, payments, and the list goes on. 

The No. 1 factor in retaining IT staff is a good salary, according to a survey of software developers. Good company culture, career growth opportunities and Upskilling/learning are the second most important factors in talent retention. However, some senior developers favour good company culture and good relations with the team over a high salary. There’s a pretty big gap in scoring between the 1st...

The global online ordering of food was estimated at 130 billion USD in 2022. By 2027, these figures are expected to rise by 223.7 billion USD. The US Department of Agriculture estimated that up to 54% of Americans spend a major chunk of their budget on ordering food online. There are numerous food delivery service apps on the App Store and Play Store, but...

ContextAPI is one of the most exciting features of ReactJS that helps us implement the state management in our React apps without importing extra libraries, like Redux or MobX. For this specific example I’ll use some basic functionalities without complex logic.

In 2011, Marc Andreessen said that software is eating the world, and that it would eat the world. He meant that every business would need an app or software to be viable. Now, AI will be an incredibly important part of the software of the future, and the infrastructure underpinning Web3 will be no different. PwC predicts AI will add about $15.7 trillion to...

Java developers are familiar with the concept of garbage collection. When your application deletes or updates, a deleted record is not removed immediately nor is an existing record updated in its place. Instead, the deleted and updated records are marked as a dead tuples and will remain in storage. The database has its own garbage collection process called [vacuuming] - the plain one and...

In this article, I will be showing you how to create a Dapp that allows us to store data on the Arweave network, using bundlr on testnet. We will be using Nextjs, Chakra UI, RainbowKit and RainbowKit. Bundlr has a devnet which allows you to use devnet/testnet cryptocurrency networks to pay for storage. The devnet node behaves exactly as a mainnet node - other...

How to purpose changes; How to adapt ourselves in a tech stack. Maya uses an example of the evolution of building a window as a window manufacturer to make it easier to understand.

The Talk is about writing component stories. Histoire is a tool like Storybook specifically built for the Vue ecosystem, which makes it easier to integrate and use.

Pinia might be a light library with a simple API but it takes advantage of many Vue Reactivity concepts like Effect Scopes, which are unknown by most. In this talk we will go through some of the internals of Pinia, understanding them and discovering how to enhance our usage of Pinia.

I attempted to run a boot-loader that can use more than just the 512 boot sector. It also runs a very simple kernel that contains a very primitive calculator!

We live in an era where believe it or not almost everything can be possible. Technology helps us to reach goals that were once only an aspect of imagination. With modern biotechnology we have an opportunity to use living processes or systems to create products or other technology to improve the quality of human life. According to Pew Research center, around 70% of American...

Startups are shifting focus from expansion to survival and laying out plans for the months and years to come. Successful startups such as Instagram, Uber, Venmo, and WhatsApp all launched with success in the Great Recession of 2008.Apply these simple strategies to promote longevity and build success for your startup. The most strategic tool a startup has at its disposal is the feedback of...

The Yeti Yacht Club and Sapphire Studios, an MMO game development company, have formed a partnership. Treeverse raised $25 million in a round of investment led by IdeoCo Labs, Animoca Brands, and Skyvision Capital. Kibatsu Mecha is a collection of 2,222 unique characters that were hand-generated in their entirety. The one-of-a-kind "Kibatsu" is one of the "extremely odd" NFTs that can be combined in...

DabbaFlow, an end-to-end encrypted file-sharing platform developed by Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab, was launched recently. Using the platform, users can get more control over their data and transform it into meaningful business results while maintaining their information's privacy and security. New issues have arisen as a result of the increasing importance of data exchanges in today's digital world. Remote cooperation and the...

Creating purpose-driven microservices should always be a goal. Find out how Render Blueprints can offer a reproducible microservices strategy.

A smart contract is a self-executing digital term of agreement embedded in strings of codes to be executed when the specified conditions have been met. The advent of smart contracts in blockchain technology is genuine in all these features. Solana is a public blockchain that runs on a BFT—Byzantine Fault Tolerance—themed Tower Consensus. The Tower consensus leverages the Proof-of-History consensus mechanism. As one of...

Internal Revenue Code mandates that a company must have an independent, qualified appraiser determine the company's fair market value. In order for an appraisal to be accepted by the IRS, it must meet certain qualifications. The backsolve method of valuation approach is a valuation approach to determine the value of common shares. The method is beneficial for companies having complex capital structures because it...

The article presents an attempt to conceptualize the features of communication in the context of digital transformation mediated by distributed ledger technologies, blockchain, and non-fungible tokens in particular. The main hypothesis is that communication now takes place directly, without the mediation of third parties. 

Decentralized Finance, also known as Defi, has grown massively since its beginnings in 2020. As this industry continues to grow, new innovations come into play and one innovation I want to focus on is the use of bridging protocols in the crypto space. Briding protocols enable users to transfer assets from one blockchain to another, from tokens to NFTs and stablecoins. This enables the...

Bitcoin has become increasingly easy to get started with over the years. It may seem overwhelming for new users but it's easy to buy with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Here we'll look at how you can get started buying Bitcoin and how to set up your account with a cryptocurrency exchange. You may be required to authenticate your identity before making a purchase, although...

There has been a changing attitude concerning sustainability and responsible environmental practices in recent years, with businesses and organizations changing pace when it comes to their support and contribution towards an evolving solution surrounding climate change. As the marketplace evolves, along with newer, and more eco-conscious consumers, businesses will need to adapt their practices in an effort to stay relevant and garner support from...

Real-money gaming is riddled with tight regulations and fees in American regions, as well as most other regions around the world. The team purchased licenses for the regions they want to operate in, integrates with Plaid/Stripe to accept user deposits and facilitate user withdrawals, and builds their gaming app. This is a great go-to-market strategy for a bankrolled team with enough certainty in their...

Masa Finance provides a simple user experience through which people can link, manage, and track traditional and cryptocurrency accounts to create a non-fungible credit report - allowing access to credit through fully on-chain services. Masa will be the first DeFi platform to offer uncollateralized loans through partners in the US, Canada, and sub-Saharan-Africa. Masa has seen double-digit growth each month as we’ve started rolling...

About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain.

I was trying to figure out if I can write entire Space Invaders clone using just the code written by an AI. I've used Copilot to try it out. It took 2 hours to build the game with some major issues, but in general the experiment was a success. You can see my struggle in a 2 hour long video attached to this article.

NFTs are nonfungible tokens you can mint online, helping you prove ownership and generate revenue each time they are used or sold. The metaverse is a much broader term that mostly refers to the newest version of the internet, Web 3.0. Augmented reality is a simplified version of virtual reality that is much easier to access because all you need in most cases is...

Building a web3 community is vital for the success of any web3 project. Decentralization, innovation, and web3 development are only possible through people. Building a community not only benefits the project but also earns it more authority. It does come with its own set of challenges, though. Building, managing, and growing a community is time-consuming and requires effort. In this guide, we’ll show you...

The future of human curiosity is decentralized and open source. He says there will never be a human that is the same as you. We are as unique as our fingerprints. The over-ambitious desire to be different from who we are in search of joy and happiness is like running away from yourself. The social and technological relationship between centralized and decentralized. technology is...

Most of the world is two years into telecommuting — fully or partially. Most team leaders have tested different team management tools and tactics and formed opinions about the benefits and drawbacks of working from home. As a fully remote company, the oVice team decided to share our ways of handling the most common remote team management challenges. Here are our answers to 7 pressing remote...

The number of mobile games entering the market is increasing every year. It's a complex, highly competitive market, with many apps struggling for users' attention. When promoting games and attracting users to them, companies often create a lot of creatives, but not all of them turn out to be the right ones. The guys from Adsbalance invented 5 rules that helped them increase the...

India, home to 420 million online gamers, is second only to China. The last two years have been a golden age for the Indian gaming industry. Cloud gaming allows users to stream high-end games over high-speed network connections between various devices such as laptops, tablets and mobile phones. By 2022, games will not only be visually appealing, but will also be able to create...

Magidoc is an open source tool that can be used to easily autogenerate static GraphQL documentation for any GraphQL API. Learn how you can generate a documentation website in a few seconds with Magidoc.

New Web3 startups must find ways to shore up their business plans against the inevitable bear market. Partnerships with like-minded startups are important in the Web3, NFT, cryptocurrency, and metaverse arenas because these spaces are community-centric. Inclusivity means community building, which is essential in the Web3 startup ecosystem.

Most of the world is two years into telecommuting — fully or partially. Most team leaders have tested different team management tools and tactics and formed opinions about the benefits and drawbacks of working from home. As a fully remote company, the oVice team decided to share our ways of handling the most common remote team management challenges. Here are our answers to 7 pressing remote...

First-ever token with a passive income model was launched in 2021 by CyberKongz and sold out in a blink of an eye. From that moment on and for 10 years, holders of these NFTs earn some tokens each day. Roughly converted, the passive income of everyone involved reached $270K annually. In the Cybee NFT project, there’s a treasury wallet replenished by all coin sales....

There are many ways to make your startup stand out in a competitive market. As a startup, you need to be careful with your marketing efforts and money. Since you’re operating on limited funds, it’s important to get the most bang for your buck.

Welcome to the #DeFi Writing Contest by Sora and HackerNoon! This is your chance to use your writing skills and your knowledge and opinions on decentralized finance, crypto, and substrate to win money from a whopping monthly 5000 XSTUSD prize pool! Entering the contest is quite easy. Simply submit your article to HackerNoon with the #defi and #substrate tag, and once it is published, your submission will qualify for the...

DeFi Options Vaults (DOVs) provide easy access for users to deposit funds and earn yields based on a predefined option strategy. The most common structured product DOVs implement are covered call selling call options with a higher strike price than the current token price. At the start of Q421, DOVs were growing at a similar pace to the broader DeFi market but began to...

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. In this comparatively new field there are so many avenues of success open, so many vocations which are not crowded, that any person of either sex who is willing, at least for the time being, to engage in any...

The previous story briefly introduced Klein Finance, a decentralized trading platform with unique merits such as high liquidity with low slippages and low impermanent losses. However, there are still some concepts to be discussed so that we can better understand what Klein Finance is like in the whole industry. Hence, this story will concentrate on the concepts of DeFi, NFT, and metaverse, and briefly on...

A consensus protocol in blockchain requires an agreement of a trusted node in the peer-to-peer network. Transactions that occur on the blockchain are reliable and all networks agree on a consensual algorithm of the blocks. The protocol controls all the activities of the network making blockchain a secured technology in cryptocurrency. All cryptocurrencies rely fully on the Proof-of-work and Proof of Stake consensus for...

Blockchain is a wonderland for many believers. It could potentially open up a magical door to a new world, where everything is fair and transparent. In this world, everyone will believe in one another, as data are owned by every single participant and smart contracts execute everything in a fair and logical manner. However, this seemed-to-be beautiful place has its pits as reality kicks...

Roberto Ierusalimschy is world-renowned as the creator of the Lua programming language. He is teaching Building a Programming Language, a new Classpert course designed to help developers truly understand how programming languages work, thereby helping them better understand the languages they use every day. Roberto says developers spend their whole professional life embedded inside a programming language, “Most software developers live inside a. programming...