Bitcoin may rival gold as inflation hedge over next decade — Adam Back

Bitcoin could begin to take market share from gold over the next decade as a hedge against inflation and geopolitical uncertainty, according to Blockstream CEO Adam Back. Speaking during a fireside chat with Cointelegraph managing editor Gareth Jenkinson at Paris Blockchain Week 2025, Back said rising inflation and monetary instability across global economies will drive … Read more

Meta introduces restricted Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger

Meta is introducing Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger. The feature, which automatically enrolls young users into an app experience with built-in protections, will be available on these platforms in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Canada before expanding to additional regions in the future. Teen Accounts first rolled out to Instagram last September after Instagram … Read more

Cathie Wood’s ARK bags $26M in Coinbase shares, unloads Bitcoin ETF

Cathie Wood’s investment firm ARK Invest is showing a mixed reaction to the United States’ latest trade tariffs, offloading shares of its spot Bitcoin ETF while increasing its position in Coinbase. ARK has acquired $26.6 million of Coinbase (COIN) stock since US President Donald Trump announced new trade tariffs on April 2, according to trading … Read more

This 2025 Coding Trend Claims to Solve Your IT Nightmares—But Is It Too Good to Be True?

Coding Without the Sweat…Yikes!!!! Just picture this: you’re sipping your daily doze of caffeine and casually telling your computer, “Design and build an app that tracks my team’s weekly tasks,” and, boom, it’s done. No semicolons, no syntax errors, just pure vibes. Welcome to “vibe coding”, the hottest trend in 2025’s tech scene and the … Read more

The Internet is Great, but Web3 is Better!

What would happen if you lost access to the internet—forever?! Horrible. Devastating. Lost… These are some words that have been used to describe this scenario. You’ll probably feel insanely bored for a long time, living could feel pretty weird. No chatting with friends, no doom-scrolling on YouTube, and definitely no access to free porn. But … Read more

Hackers Are Hiding Malware in This Common Image Format—And It’s Working

The KnowBe4 Threat Research team detected a sudden increase in phishing campaigns that abuse the scalable vector graphics (SVG) file format to hide malicious HTML, malware, and scripts that can easily bypass conventional email security filters. Analyzing phishing emails from Q1 we discovered that SVG files comprised 6.6% of malicious attachments within phishing emails—a 245% … Read more

Turkey’s Sipay raises $78M to expand its Stripe-like services into emerging markets

Billing itself as “Stripe for emerging markets,” Turkish Fintech Sipay has raised a $78 million Series B funding round, claiming a valuation of $875 million in the process. This round is significant, as Sipay plans to expand into markets outside of Turkey, offering additional services like remittances that Stripe currently does not offer in those … Read more

Yes, You Can Add ‘Paper-Checkbox’ to Vaadin—and It’s Easier Than You Think

This article is part of the series ‘Towards Vaadin Developer Certification,’ which aims to explain the fundamentals of Vaadin as I study for this certification. The topics covered here are part of the ‘Vaadin Developer’ Certification curriculum. The content was created based on my personal notes and studies for this certification. In our previous article, … Read more

Apple might import more iPhones from India to side-step China tariffs

Apple is considering importing more iPhones from India to side-step the 54% additional tariffs on goods imported from China that U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources. The company sees this as a short-term measure while it seeks to negotiate with the Trump administration to get an … Read more

This 20-Year-Old UI Framework Is Outshining Its Newer Rivals And You Can Learn it Today

Time is a valuable resource… That’s why I dedicated myself to creating this content with the time I had available. Should there be any discrepancies with the original sources, please consider my main goal: to contribute and help all readers. This article is part of the series ‘Towards Vaadin Developer Certification,’ which aims to explain … Read more

The Lost Dream of a Free Internet & How Spacecoin is Reviving it

The Internet was meant to be free, open, and independent, yet it has become one of the most centralized systems in modern history. What happened? In the 1970s, the Internet was a small, decentralized network of computers. The personal computer revolution expanded on this foundation, powering optimism about a digital future. Visionary John Perry Barlow … Read more

Inside the Quietly Powerful Architecture That Powers Spotify’s Recommendations

What Are Event-Driven Systems? An event-driven system is an architecture where components react to events rather than waiting for direct requests. In contrast to traditional synchronous systems, where services make blocking calls and wait for responses, event-driven architectures allow services to communicate asynchronously via event notifications. Key Components of Event-Driven Systems Event Producers – Generate … Read more

Insecure IoT Devices Are Becoming Cybersecurity’s Biggest Threat

IoT—the Internet of Things—is all around us, whether we’re aware of it or not. From doorbells to thermostats to kitchen appliances, an ever-growing list of devices is being made “smart” and connected to the internet. The numbers involved are accordingly enormous, with the global IoT market expected to cross $1.5 trillion in revenues by 2029. … Read more

These Are the Factors that Make or Break a Crypto Exchange

In modern business, especially in the cryptocurrency industry, understanding and managing liquidity is essential for ensuring market efficiency and price stability. These insights come from personal experience working with companies and an in-depth study of liquidity dynamics. A deep understanding of this aspect is crucial, as liquidity provision involves injecting assets into the market, enabling … Read more

Cut Load Times in Half with These Next.js Tweaks

Optimizing Next.js applications involves combining improvements in both your code and underlying infrastructure. By minimizing unnecessary re-renders, fine-tuning image handling, employing caching techniques, using dynamic imports, and integrating server components, you can significantly boost performance, reduce load times, and increase overall efficiency. Before exploring specific optimizations, it’s important to grasp how Next.js renders and delivers … Read more