Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Blockchain evangelists from MIT, BitFury and Blockchain Trust Accelerator go to the Democratic National Convention

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

Leaders in the blockchain-technology industry trekked to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia today to speak with various world leaders and political representatives about the future of blockchains. A blockchain is a global, peer-to-peer distributed ledger that is cryptographically secured by participants …

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 27: Bitcoin not money Florida case, European regulated exchange, Coinbase Australia and Ether, NetCents adds BTC payments

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin’s status as “money” and as a financial instrument saw some interesting news this week after a Miami judge dismissed a money laundering case because Bitcoin is not money and in the same week a European Stock Exchange added its first regulated Bitcoin …

Apple, Facebook and Coinbase involved in takedown of KickassTorrents

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

On Wednesday, July 20, 2016, 30-year-old Ukrainian Artem Vaulin, the alleged operator of torrent directory website KickassTorrents (KAT) was arrested in Poland. He has been charged with copyright infringement and money laundering; domain names related to KAT’s operation have also been sized …

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 20: Bitcoin Halvening changes little, Ethereum successful hardfork, Bitcoiner travels around the world, Pokemon on the blockchain and Charlie Shrem released

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

The Bitcoin “halvening” happened last week—an event within the Bitcoin protocol where a new Bitcoin mining era started with the mining reward dropping to 12.5 BTC from 25 BTC. Speculation before the event held that something might happen to the market, economy …

Blockchain explorer and data startup Blocktrail acquired by Bitmain

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin mining equipment maker Bitmain Technologies Ltd. today announced the acquisition of Blocktrail B.V., a data analysis startup that launched in 2014 with a blockchain explorer that then released a Bitcoin wallet service in 2015. Aside from making the Antminer Bitcoin ASIC …

The Nico360 to launch as the world’s smallest 360 camera with a multitude of features

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

The Nico360, world’s smallest 360-degree camera, just announced pre-orders on crowdfunding website Indigogo offering a 40 percent off for early-birds. The tiny camera measures 1.8 inches by 1.8 inches and weighs a mere 109 grams (about a quarter of a pound), which …

Niantic fixing Pokémon GO server problems that irk users and change community conduct

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

As people begin the flood the streets staring at their smartphone screens looking for ever elusive Jigglypuff and Dratini in Nintendo Co., Ltd. and Niantic, Inc.’s recently released mobile game Pokémon GO, players are encountering more obstacles than just walking to complete …

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 13: Ubiquity real estate proof-of-transfer on blockchain, Stroj and Counterparty “picopayments,” Coinbase outage, and more

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

This week has seen numerous developments in the Bitcoin and blockchain industry. For example, blockchain-powered startup Ubiquity just used the Bitcoin blockchain and the Colored Coins protocol to securely record a real estate transfer. Storj and Counterparty have teamed up to work …

Rio 2016 Olympics will pose network traffic challenges for mobile DevOps and developers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

The 2016 Summer Olympics will take place in Rio de Janerio, Brazil and the mobile app market will be following the crowds who flow into the city to watch the games and participate in festivities. This means that mobile developers will be …

This infographic from xMatters argues the case for using a DevOps toolchain [INFOGRAPHIC]

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

DevOps communication and alerting provider xMatters, Inc. put together an infographic why businesses need to plan out DevOps toolchain integrations because a properly built DevOps plan should work like a well-oiled machine. As with any well-oiled machine the production, upgrading and maintenance …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Blockchain evangelists from MIT, BitFury and Blockchain Trust Accelerator go to the Democratic National Convention

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 27: Bitcoin not money Florida case, European regulated exchange, Coinbase Australia and Ether, NetCents adds BTC payments

Apple, Facebook and Coinbase involved in takedown of KickassTorrents

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 20: Bitcoin Halvening changes little, Ethereum successful hardfork, Bitcoiner travels around the world, Pokemon on the blockchain and Charlie Shrem released

Blockchain explorer and data startup Blocktrail acquired by Bitmain

The Nico360 to launch as the world’s smallest 360 camera with a multitude of features

Niantic fixing Pokémon GO server problems that irk users and change community conduct

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 13: Ubiquity real estate proof-of-transfer on blockchain, Stroj and Counterparty “picopayments,” Coinbase outage, and more

Rio 2016 Olympics will pose network traffic challenges for mobile DevOps and developers

This infographic from xMatters argues the case for using a DevOps toolchain [INFOGRAPHIC]

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