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

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 August 26: Bitcoin block size debate, Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Improvement Proposals, Spells of Genesis and virtual items

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

This week continues the contentious Bitcoin block size debate and discussions of the emergence of the Bitcoin XT client, see below, and more talk about numerous BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals) presented by varied Bitcoin developers and community luminaries. As back to school …

Coffee-based filament allows people to 3D print beautiful, brown objects

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

People who like coffee can now make java-based objects with their 3D printers using a coffee filament manufactured by 3Dom USA called Wound Up, produced in partnership with Fargo, North Dakota based bio-composite company, C2renew. The outcome of this partnership enables 3D …

Take to the skies with TobyRich gaming drones Kickstarter for mobile

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Video games rarely get a chance to jump out of the screen and into the real world, but with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets this sort of gaming is becoming a reality. On the forefront of this sort of augmented …

Google’s Go programming language version 1.5 leaves C behind

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Wednesday marked the release of the sixth major stable release of Google’s Go programming language with version 1.5. It is currently available for download right now. Go, also known as golang, was developed in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 August 19: Bitcoin flash crash and Bitfinex margin trades, Bitcoin XT fork splits community

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

On Saturday Mike Hearn, ex-Google employee and major Bitcoin developer, posted an essay describing the need for moves to be made to resolve expected Bitcoin network block size scalability issues. To get the ball rolling to make a change manifest, Hearn and Bitcoin …

Augur’s decentralized predictions marketplace crowdsale raises $1.3 million in 26 hours

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

What would you pay to be able to predict the future? What if it turns out that it doesn’t take a psychic, but instead it’s possible to do so with emerging technology. One such technology, Augur (Forecast Foundation osaühing), is running a …

City of Paradigm: The blockchain and the retail chain

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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 …

Filament raises $5 million to add trust to the Industrial Internet

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

The Internet of Things and Industrial Internet is about to get a boost from blockchain technology, the distributed ledger that secures digital currencies such as Bitcoin, as Filament, an enterprise technology company that creates smart connected networks for machinery, equipment, and wireless …

Team Fortress 2 trading site Dispenser.tf hacked, bitcoins stolen

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Earlier this week, popular Team Fortress 2 item trading forum and website Dispenser.tf was taken offline due to hackers compromising the site, which led to the theft of 100 bitcoins (approximately $26,000 USD.) The sites owner, posting as Joto, went to Valve Corporation’s …

Not just for adults: 3D printers from Ultimaker for Science City help educate kids

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

The Maker Studio at Kansas City’s Science Center, Science City, just got a huge boost from Ultimaker B.V., a leading manufacturers of 3D printers, based in the Netherlands. The 3D printer manufacturer just gifted nine new printers to the Science Center adding to the six …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 August 26: Bitcoin block size debate, Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Improvement Proposals, Spells of Genesis and virtual items

Coffee-based filament allows people to 3D print beautiful, brown objects

Take to the skies with TobyRich gaming drones Kickstarter for mobile

Google’s Go programming language version 1.5 leaves C behind

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 August 19: Bitcoin flash crash and Bitfinex margin trades, Bitcoin XT fork splits community

Augur’s decentralized predictions marketplace crowdsale raises $1.3 million in 26 hours

City of Paradigm: The blockchain and the retail chain

Filament raises $5 million to add trust to the Industrial Internet

Team Fortress 2 trading site Dispenser.tf hacked, bitcoins stolen

Not just for adults: 3D printers from Ultimaker for Science City help educate kids

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