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 2014 January 22: Las Vegas Casinos and BTC, North American Bitcoin Conference this weekend, Marc Andreessen on Bitcoin

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

This week Bitcoin is seeing an increase in notice in countries across the world, but what really caught the attention of the community was Las Vegas: the source of thoughts of casinos and mobsters in the United States. Although it turned out …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 15: Overstock.com makes over $124k in 24 hours, Pizza sells well for BTC, Richard Garriot talks MMOs

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The past week hasn’t been too dramatic for the Bitcoin community as the value vs. USD continues to fluctuate. After battering against $1,000 for a while, the price has fallen to hover between $800 and $900 for a while as new exchanges …

David Clark discusses the Internet, security, and our protocol future on theCUBE at #MIT ECIR 2014

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

David Clark, who could be described as one of the inventors of TCP/IP (protocols that became the foundation of the Internet), sat down with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelley at MIT ECIR 2014 for an interview in theCUBE. Clark’s list of accolades …

GHash.IO mining pool getting too big, Bitcoin community calls for diversification before it reaches 51%

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

It looks like the GHash.IO mining pool is getting too big for its britches for the Bitcoin community—and by that it means that the pool-based Bitcoin mining concern is rapidly approaching the dreaded 51% rate. Bitcoin mining is an important part of …

Ask DevOps: Interview with CA Technologies’ Shridhar Mittal

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The needs of the enterprise sector when it comes to development, deployment, and operations has been advancing at a pace that only technology can sustain. In the early days of software, development was a question of producing a product in an office …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 8: Bitcoin hits $1000, Zynga tests BTC for cow clicking, KryptoKit gets three big names, BTC bulletin boards in SF

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Happy birthday Bitcoin! Along with the start of January, and a great deal of good news surrounding Bitcoin, there’s been a noticeable resurgence of market price for BTC. In the gaming community Zynga has partnered with BitPay to process bitcoins for virtual …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 1: Indian government raids BTC exchanges, Overstock.com joins the community, Stross and Krugman hate Bitcoin

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Happy New Year everyone in the Bitcoin community! This little cryptocurrency that could has racked up yet-another-year of the interesting and the strange and has 2014 ahead of it. These past few weeks have seen something strange from the market in India …

DerpTrolling continues DDOS trolling gaming sites and Twitch streamers for New Years Eve Day

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, a new DDOS troll moved onto the gaming scene by lighting up a Twitter account (@DerpTrolling) and began to wash away Internet gaming services. The anti-fireworks and criminal behavior culminated in the harassment of a Twitch streamer named PhantomL0rd who had …

DDOSers targeting Twitch user shut down various gaming services

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

[UPDATE: The DDOS harassment has continued onto a second day hitting World of Warcraft, Minecraft, and more streamers.] Tonight the Twitch user James “PhantomL0rd” Varga found himself in the crosshairs of a DDOSer going by the moniker DERP (under Twitter handle @DerpTrolling) decided …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 22: Las Vegas Casinos and BTC, North American Bitcoin Conference this weekend, Marc Andreessen on Bitcoin

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 15: Overstock.com makes over $124k in 24 hours, Pizza sells well for BTC, Richard Garriot talks MMOs

GHash.IO mining pool getting too big, Bitcoin community calls for diversification before it reaches 51%

Ask DevOps: Interview with CA Technologies’ Shridhar Mittal

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 8: Bitcoin hits $1000, Zynga tests BTC for cow clicking, KryptoKit gets three big names, BTC bulletin boards in SF

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 1: Indian government raids BTC exchanges, Overstock.com joins the community, Stross and Krugman hate Bitcoin

DerpTrolling continues DDOS trolling gaming sites and Twitch streamers for New Years Eve Day

DDOSers targeting Twitch user shut down various gaming services

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