Ethereum Gas Fees Spike as ETH Value Rises: Average Onchain Fees Jump by More Than 50%
While the second-largest crypto asset by market capitalization, ethereum, has risen 27% against the U.S. dollar in the last two weeks, the network’s average and median-sized gas fees have increased by more than 50%. On the first day of 2023, the average fee to spend ether was around $2.93 per transfer, but today the average cost is 54% higher at $4.52 per transfer. Rise in Ethereum Value Leads to Increased Onchain Transaction Costs...
Call of Duty Cheat Makers Tell Judge That Activision is Already Suing Them
Early January 2022, Activision filed a lawsuit in the United States against German companies EngineOwning UG and CMN Holdings S.A., several named defendants, and 50 ‘John Does’ Activision claimed that the Call of Duty cheats sold by the defendants are copyright-infringing “circumvention devices” and trafficking in them is illegal under the DMCA. The gaming company went on to allege that selling the cheats to Activision customers...
Iconic Fansubbing Site Legendas.tv Shuts Down Voluntarily
Every day, millions of people enjoy fan-made subtitles. These files help foreigners to better understand English entertainment and provide the hearing impaired with a way to comprehend audio. These subtitles are often used in combination with pirated films or TV shows, a thorn in the side of entertainment industry companies, who see this as a threat to their business. This was also the case with Legendas.tv, a Brazilian fansubbing...
Community thinking patterns and the role of the introducer-in-chief
Community thinking patterns and the role of the introducer-in-chief Ron McFarland Thu, 01/19/2023 – 03:00 I recently studied some research by Dave Logan, Bob King, and Halee Fischer-Wright, who looked at what I call productive and counterproductive communities. Community is an important open organization principle. These researchers define it as a group of 20 to 150 people who know each other enough to say hello on the street...
How to fix an IndexError in Python
How to fix an IndexError in Python vijaytechnicalauthor Thu, 01/19/2023 – 03:00 If you use Python, you may have encountered the IndexError error in response to some code you’ve written. The IndexError message in Python is a runtime error. To understand what it is and how to fix it, you must first understand what an index is. A Python list (or array or dictionary) has an index. The index of an item is its position within a...
