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

Last Minute Bitcoin Enthusiast Gift Guide for 2014

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

It’s been a banner year for bitcoin when it comes to new merchants adopting it as a digital currency, so it’s not difficult to figure out what to buy someone with bitcoins for the holiday, but what do you buy someone who …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 17: Time and Microsoft embrace Bitcoin, favorable mention by Ford Motor Company, Blockchain.info ‘hacker’ returns BTC

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

It’s the end of the year and Christmas is coming early: Microsoft and Time Inc. have both started accepting bitcoins. This continues a strong trend over 2014 of businesses adopting the digital currency. Although right now there’s a lot of eyes on …

Bitcoin cited in Ford’s 2015 Global Consumer Trends and Futuring report

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Ford Motor Company has released a its “Looking Further with Ford” publication for 2015 [PDF link] that includes studies commissioned about the future of many different technologies as well as expected trends. Bitcoin made a debut with four mentions across the publication. …

Microsoft’s early Christmas gift to Bitcoin is this year’s big news

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

In 2013, a survey of Bitcoin luminaries led to a single consensus about 2014: this would be the year of merchant adoption. Not only has 2014 lived up to this prediction, it has exceeded it in surprising ways with Overstock.com, TigerDirect, Dell, …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 10: Blockchain.info discloses security issue, BitQuest Bitcoin Minecraft server, Tim Draper buys into US Marshal’s auction again

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The dominant story this week is all about how security is extremely important in the Bitcoin world–not to mention the Internet in general–when money is digital, it makes sense to keep it safe. Extremely popular wallet service and blockchain explorer Blockchain.info recently …

This week in DDoS: Xbox Live and PlayStation Network edition

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Over the past week, the online gaming services that support Microsoft’s Xbox consoles and Sony’s PlayStation consoles have faced service disruptions thought to be caused by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility in multiple …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 3: Bitcoin Foundation copycat fraud sites, MasterCard speaks against BTC in Australia, ChangeTip $3.5m seed funding

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week in Bitcoin shows a growth happening in the community as well as the pains associated with it. On the grim front there’s some friction happening with that growth. Fraud continues to be an issue, as it is with any industry, …

Augmented reality changes the face of marketing with Aurasma | #HPDiscover

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Mobile devices have put a great deal of power into the hands of consumers by simply giving them instant access to the Internet, but the next big user experience revolution focuses on cameras. Smartphones provide a window into the information world, but …

Meet the NetNinja: The only anonymizing VPN box you’ll need

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

We live in a world where going on the Internet also means bringing the whole wild, wild west into your living room. Every week the media publishes another story about a data breach, privacy invasions, or an Internet service provider spying on …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Last Minute Bitcoin Enthusiast Gift Guide for 2014

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 17: Time and Microsoft embrace Bitcoin, favorable mention by Ford Motor Company, Blockchain.info ‘hacker’ returns BTC

Bitcoin cited in Ford’s 2015 Global Consumer Trends and Futuring report

Microsoft’s early Christmas gift to Bitcoin is this year’s big news

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 10: Blockchain.info discloses security issue, BitQuest Bitcoin Minecraft server, Tim Draper buys into US Marshal’s auction again

This week in DDoS: Xbox Live and PlayStation Network edition

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 3: Bitcoin Foundation copycat fraud sites, MasterCard speaks against BTC in Australia, ChangeTip $3.5m seed funding

Augmented reality changes the face of marketing with Aurasma | #HPDiscover

Meet the NetNinja: The only anonymizing VPN box you’ll need

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