Kyt Dotson
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Finding yourself in Star Trek Online, an interview with a player from Cryptic’s Trek MMO
Some people just want to fly starships. That’s the impetus behind playing Star Trek Online and the driving interest behind video game players like Cynicman, interviewed below in game. Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) have become a new social strata for gamers to gather, experience a persistent virtual world, participate in challenges, and express themselves. ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 March 5th: MtGox continues to crumble, Flexcoin and Poloniex hacked, ZeroBlock gets RTBTC
In the wake of MtGox becoming an empty, smoking crater, bitcoin value plummeted from the $800 band all the way down to below $500—but it seems now that the news has sunk in, and MtGox is essentially dead, the value is recovering once again and is flirting with the high $600s. In spite of all ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 February 26: MtGox is dead, but it’s not all about MtGox
The real headliner this week is “What happened to MtGox?” And not to disappoint readers of the Bitcoin Weekly there is a summary of this week’s news as it pertains to the situation happening with MtGox. For those readers looking for a summary of news and events not-MtGox-related look to the very bottom for a ...
Treasure Data improves gaming experience with digital gaming analytics solution
Big Data and cloud computing are closely related. Treasure Data, the first end-to-end managed service in the cloud for data acquisition, storage and analysis, is hoping to integrate them seamlessly with its data analytics platform, which runs in the cloud. Taking the big data analytics platform to next level, the company today released its first ...
MtGox trading freeze and website closure aftermath continues [UPDATED]
Yesterday, February 24th, MtGox halted transactions on their bitcoin exchange, triggering The Bitcoin Six to publish a joint-statement about the exchange’s apparent demise. Shortly thereafter MtGox went entirely blank—not offline, but documents once served by the web server deleted. All of this followed Sunday’s announcement that MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles had resigned from the Bitcoin ...
Coinbase, Blockchain.info and other high-profile Bitcoin industry executives: ‘MtGox is insolvent’
Today at approximately 8pm CST (11am Japan), embattled and ailing MtGox suddenly halted all trading on their exchange. Not long after, questions began to circulate about the potential insolvency of MtGox and the future of the company. In response, executives from Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, BTC China, Blockchain.info, and Circle released a joint-statement decrying the insolvency ...
MtGox CEO Karpeles resignation from the Bitcoin Foundation a good sign for the community
This weekend signaled the resignation of MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles from the Bitcoin Foundation in the wake of numerous controversies over the status of MtGox and his statements to the press. Since technical troubles struck MtGox—and the exchange froze bitcoin withdrawals—global BTC market value has dipped as low as $550 and the value of bitcoins ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 February 19: MtGox continues to blame Bitcoin, BitPay releases Bitcore, BTC ATMs arrive in the US
Last week’s upset with transaction malleability and a Bitcoin network-wide DDoS attempt and ultimately the total shutdown of MtGox (triggering ongoing protests) has pushed the market value of BTC down to the mid $600s but it’s remained mostly there ever since. MtGox had a rocky start in explaining why BTC withdrawals had been frozen and ...
City of Paradigm: The Internet of Things
Below is an excerpt from Kyt Dotson’s novel City of Paradigm, a science fiction tale about a fictional 21st century city situated somewhere in California. Each City of Paradigm column is two parts: an excerpt from the novel and an editorial describing the real-world context of the technologies described in the story. Readers may find ...
Big Data’s current ‘innovation cycle’ leading the DevOps curve #theCUBE #BigDataSV
Andre M. Bosivert recently spoke in theCUBE with Dave Vellante and John Furrier about innovations springing up in the Big Data circuit and industry. Much of the discussion centered around the culture, technology, and leadership as seen surrounding big data on a high level, but there’s a lot of spaces that this innovation has affected ...
