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Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 7th: Coinbase Offers Microtransactions, Crypto Street Beta Launch, MtGox Partners With Akamai
In this Bitcoin Weekly we take a little look at the state of economic stability of Bitcoin itself by talking about a few things that have to do with exchanging, trading, and working directly with BTC. To start, Coinbase thinks it has a solution to the “microtransactions” problem that plagues not just fiat money over-the-Internet ...
Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs Women in Video Games Part 3 Talks About Gender Roles in Games
The third video in Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series is out and she speaks in this one primarily about the role that gender generally takes in games and how the video game industry is doing a poor job of “growing out of” the last century. This is the third in a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 31: Thailand “Bans” Bitcoin, Bitcoin Movie Kicked from Kickstarter, DATA is here to self-regulate BTC
A story is going around how the Thailand government has “banned Bitcoin,” as in made it illegal—but that’s not quite what it seems to be. More than likely (as with most world governments) Thailand is uncertain what to do with Bitcoin and has advised a company in-country that since its unregulated that they probably shouldn’t ...
Trademark Issue Leads to MMO Fan Site Removing Public-Data About EverQuest Character
Feldon of EverQuest 2 fan-site EQ2Wire was perhaps groggy with sleep when he first received an e-mail message from Thomas Freyer, apparent owner of Malshandir Limited, claiming that EQ2Wire’s publication of character information violated his trademark—the information belonged to one Malshadir, a male, level 92, dark elf dirge on EverQuest 2 Antonia Bayle server. That ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 24: SEC Files Bitcoin-related Ponzi Scheme Charges, BitFantasy MMORPG Trades in BTC, More VPN Providers on Board
Crime and politics have followed bitcoin since its inception but not quite in the sense that is being seen today—and, in news more fun, an MMORPG (a massively multiplayer online role playing game) is being developed that uses bitcoin as its core exchange currency. The SEC has charged a Texan man with running a Ponzi ...
Ask DevOps: HP Vertica’s Jeff Healey Speaks About the Internet of Things
Last month, I reached out to a few industry experts about how the move towards the Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet–the two names that describe a greater number of “things” being tracked and networked in both consumer and enterprise spaces respectively–and the conversations we had on the topic have brought to mind a ...
Linux Developers and Linus Torvalds Find Themselves Called Out for Abusive Language
On what seems the heels of talking about how developers “speak” in comments attached to repository submissions (taken from a sampling of GitHub commits that contain taboo language) comes another controversy from a different open source cultural facet: the Linux Kernel Mailing List. A post written by kernel developer Sarah Sharp, an Intel Linux developer, ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 17: Kipochi–Bitcoin and Africa
This week, the Africa has been bright in the news about Bitcoin and how a decentralized cryptocurrency could go a long way to hooking into the cashless society burgeoning there. As mobile technology takes hold and mobile payments become more prevalent–where a large portion of the population don’t have bank accounts, but an equally large ...
Developers Swearing Over at GitHub
Sometimes even developers get frustrated. To understand the depth of that frustration, I give you @GItLost–a Twitter feed of developers swearing in their GitHub repository commit comments. The tweets displayed on this stream rush from the casually profane to the hilariously vulgar. but in the end it’s a sea awash with the unfiltered thoughts of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 10: Flattr Adds Bitcoin Donations, First DEA Seizure of BTC, Bitcoin Machine ATMs Coming this Summer
It’s been a weird week for Bitcoin value, while it seemed to be holding fairly level at $90 last Bitcoin Weekly, the value fell to near $65 but is now hovering around $77. It’s not uncommon for the price of bitcoins to show volatility and this is a common complaint about its adoption by the ...
