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 July 22: EU seeks to exempt BTC from VAT, Putin on Bitcoin, BitX $4m funding, Coinffeine distributed exchange beta

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

This week saw a lot of politics happening around Bitcoin, of various sorts. First there’s been some talk for a while now in the European Union about whether Bitcoin should be subject to VAT (Value Added Tax) or not–so far a European Court …

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland on Enigma using the Bitcoin blockchain to compute with secure data | #MITCDOIQ

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

With a name like Enigma readers would be right to suspect that MIT was working on something used by a super villain, of course the premise of the project is to make everyday people smarter and safer. Alex “Sandy” Pentland, the Toshiba …

Players in World of Warcraft can now have virtual cats curl up in their virtual laps

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

People are already able to play video games and have their cats curl up in their laps—but now World of Warcraft players can have their cats in games curl up on their characters’ laps. It’s cat lap inception! This recent addition to …

Shenmue III breaks Kickstarter video game funding record at $6 million

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

In what looks like a massive coup for fan culture and community interest, Yu Suzuki’s newest game of the Shenmue series is becoming a reality. The Kickstarter for Shenmue III was announced at E3 2015 during the Sony PlayStation press conference with …

ESPN personality known for criticism of esports leaves company

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Gaming site GameSpot reports today that Colin Cowherd has left ESPN. Cowherd is well known as one of ESPN’s top personalities; but to the gaming community he’s better known for being an outspoken critic of esports from several statements made back in …

Bitnet and BlockCypher partner to offer ‘Instant Approval’ for Bitcoin merchants

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Today Bitnet Technologies Ltd., an enterprise bitcoin payments processor, announced a deal with BlockCypher, Inc., a blockchain web services company, to build a service that mitigates risk for merchants when accepting bitcoin payments. While bitcoin market volatility is mitigated by processing services …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 15: Bitcoin and Greece, Hacking Team tracing software, Coinsetter margin trades, Cloudminr hack

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

If it weren’t for a thriving Bitcoin ecosystem, this Weekly would be all about the Greek economic crisis. While Greece has received a vote on the bailout–and Bitcoin speculation has died down somewhat, taking the market value from a peak of $317 back …

BitTorrent Sync releases new API for developers, increases dev control

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

With an announcement today BitTorrent Inc. released a new API for BitTorrent Sync that provides developers greater control and deeper access to the peer-to-peer synchronization engine. As previously reported by SilicnAngle, BitTorrent Sync is a peer-to-peer synchronization offering that allows businesses to …

Epic’s forums hacked, taken offline during investigation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Epic Games, Inc., developer of the Unreal Engine and the Unreal series of first person shooters, is currently sending out e-mails warning users that its forums have been subject to a hack. The e-mail, in part, warns that the hackers may have …

Chef bridges the gap to Amazon Web Services with 1-click deployment launch

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Last week DevOps automation industry leader Chef Software, Inc. announced the availability of Chef for the Amazon Web Services, Inc. cloud environment. This update also brings the configuration management and automation capabilities of Chef into the AWS cloud by enabling 1-click deployment for Chef, …

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Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 22: EU seeks to exempt BTC from VAT, Putin on Bitcoin, BitX $4m funding, Coinffeine distributed exchange beta

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland on Enigma using the Bitcoin blockchain to compute with secure data | #MITCDOIQ

Players in World of Warcraft can now have virtual cats curl up in their virtual laps

Shenmue III breaks Kickstarter video game funding record at $6 million

ESPN personality known for criticism of esports leaves company

Bitnet and BlockCypher partner to offer ‘Instant Approval’ for Bitcoin merchants

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 15: Bitcoin and Greece, Hacking Team tracing software, Coinsetter margin trades, Cloudminr hack

BitTorrent Sync releases new API for developers, increases dev control

Epic’s forums hacked, taken offline during investigation

Chef bridges the gap to Amazon Web Services with 1-click deployment launch

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