One of the things I've poured myself into this yr -- with a merry band of contributors together with Domenic Denicola, Anne van Kesteren, Jake Archibald, Mark Miller, Erik Arvidsson, and lots of others -- has been a design for Promises that DOM and JS can both adopt. There is a (very) lengthy history of Guarantees, Deferreds, and numerous different Promise-ish things in JS which I won't bore you with here except to note that there are very few client-facet libraries which do not embody such a thing and use it as a core idiom for dealing with async behvaior (e.g., XHR). Query, Dojo, Q, WinJS, Cujo, Closure, YUI, Ember (by way of RSVP), and all the rest use this style of contract pervasively and have for years. The major libraries are coalescing round that contract and so it appears time, finally, to make our largest and most important library -- DOM -- savvy to them too.

Inside a very short timeframe, nearly all of the cryptocurrency market has taken a large turn for the worse, losing as a lot as $50 billion to its market capitalization in a single hour because the information of possible adversarial implications for the sector continued to arrive one after the other. Certainly, the crypto market’s whole cap plummeted from $1.07 trillion to $1.02 trillion in a single hour on March 3, coinciding with a series of unfavorable occasions, together with the crash of the crypto financial institution Silvergate, the upcoming ‘hot’ Client Worth Index (CPI), and Mt. Gox creditors probably receiving massive Bitcoin (BTC) reimbursements, creating ‘FUD’ (Concern, Uncertainty, and Doubt). Series of unfortunate occasions? Specifically, some financial experts believe that the subsequent CPI report on the Federal Reserve’s March meeting may point out an acceleration of inflation by as much as 50 basis points (bps), including TD Securities’ Priya Misra and Cetera Investment Management’s Gene Goldman, as they told Reuters in late February.