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

Big Data’s current ‘innovation cycle’ leading the DevOps curve #theCUBE #BigDataSV

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Andre M. Bosivert recently spoke in theCUBE with Dave Vellante and John Furrier about innovations springing up in the Big Data circuit and industry. Much of the discussion centered around the culture, technology, and leadership as seen surrounding big data on a …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 February 12: Bitcoin-wide transaction malleability attack, Apple blocks bitcoin wallets, Fiverr accepts BTC, and more

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Mad drama has once again hit the Bitcoin community as news—both good and bad—continues to stack up. This week’s attention saw Apple drop Blockchain.info’s web-wallet from their app store citing “an unresolved issue” sparking a massive controversy and even destroyed iPhones (including …

Transaction ID malleability attack spreads to Bitcoin-wide DDoS attempt

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

It all started with such humble beginnings: when MtGox blamed the Bitcoin protocol for their own woes of poorly implemented code. Then someone decided to use what had been harassing MtGox network-wide and exchanges across the Bitcoin industry itself started checking their …

MtGox blames troubles on the Bitcoin protocol, Core developers beg to differ

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Over the weekend MtGox went offline for several hours and it took the noted bitcoin exchange almost a day and a half to reach out to customers with a press release explaining what happened. This has followed an announcement from MtGox that …

The fall of MtGox: MtGox down for hours may herald the end of an era

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Reports are flooding in that MtGox has been down for several hours. This comes on the heels of an announcement by the Bitcoin exchange that bitcoin transfers out of the exchange had been frozen. As this news hit the market, BTC market …

Ask DevOps: The game industry is turning to the IBM SoftLayer cloud environment

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Since the launch of the first Atari game Pong in 1972, video game industry has experienced tremendous transformation. Today, the cloud is the origin of a new revolution in the virtual battlefield. Millions of players around the world is playing games via …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 February 5th: BitTag for retail, BTC China back in the game, USPS looks into cryptocurrency exchange

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The Bitcoin community is still processing the New York Department of Financial Services hearings from last week but there’s a still a lot of other news running around the media that’s worth mentioning. Right now, an interesting use of wireless technology for …

The plight of gaming networks and the threat of DDoS on the modern Internet

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

It’s the evening and numerous video game players are getting home from work and school–but when they try to log into their favorite game but in this scenario they can’t because the servers are down. Not because of a configuration error, or …

Bitcoin Weekly, January 29, 2014: TigerDirect on board, CEO of BitInstant arrested, Antonopoulos joins Blockchain.info

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

As far as weeks go, this one held a great deal of drama and interest for the Bitcoin community. TigerDirect.com became the first major retailer to use BitPay to process bitcoins (in the wake of Overstock.com going with Coinbase); Blockchain.info nabbed Andreas …

Google just might be exploring Bitcoin integration plans

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

As the de facto largest search engine and one of the juggernauts of Internet service innovation, when Google speaks everyone tends to listen. And for the Bitcoin community when Google execs and project even suggest the possibility of Google looking into Bitcoin …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Big Data’s current ‘innovation cycle’ leading the DevOps curve #theCUBE #BigDataSV

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 February 12: Bitcoin-wide transaction malleability attack, Apple blocks bitcoin wallets, Fiverr accepts BTC, and more

Transaction ID malleability attack spreads to Bitcoin-wide DDoS attempt

MtGox blames troubles on the Bitcoin protocol, Core developers beg to differ

The fall of MtGox: MtGox down for hours may herald the end of an era

Ask DevOps: The game industry is turning to the IBM SoftLayer cloud environment

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 February 5th: BitTag for retail, BTC China back in the game, USPS looks into cryptocurrency exchange

The plight of gaming networks and the threat of DDoS on the modern Internet

Bitcoin Weekly, January 29, 2014: TigerDirect on board, CEO of BitInstant arrested, Antonopoulos joins Blockchain.info

Google just might be exploring Bitcoin integration plans

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