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

Ask Dr. Bitcoin: How environmentally friendly is Bitcoin?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

“I keep hearing that Bitcoin is powered by computers and that mining it can take a lot of energy. How environmentally friendly is Bitcoin?” asks Concerned About the Environment. Concerned here has a good question about the nature and distribution of Bitcoin …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 December 4: Bitcoinity switches to mBTC, Kevin Rose speaks, CoinMap maps, and China rises

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

It’s a week after BTC value exceeded $1,000 and we had Bitcoin Friday (taking advantage of the “retail holiday” Black Friday.) As a result of the value in excess of $1,000 popular market charting website Bitcoinity has switched to mBTC for display …

NASA’s NextGen air traffic control lab gets a development collaboration upgrade with Stash

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

NASA is a big name in the aeronautics field even beyond the public consciousness of knowing NASA means “going into space”; but beyond being the Star Trek of the modern era, NASA also works tirelessly to make the skies safer. One of …

Using Big Data to predict product launch succcess with dunnhumby stats at hack/reduce

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Back in May, Kaggle ran a competition with hack/reduce and dunnhumby focused on using big data predictive analysis on product launches. The objective: to discover how to predict the level of success or failure of a product by looking at the first …

Bitcoin value hits $1,000

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

In what is by far the first ever time, BTC value has hit an average of $1,000 USD across exchanges. This is historic perhaps only because modern mathematics is base-10 and people psychologically love powers of ten, but it’s also notable because …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 27: Black Friday Edition

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

This year, Black Friday occurs on Friday, November 29. This event for most retailers represents a huge rush of shoppers seeking deals before year’s end in a heady, berserk rush to find the best prices of the entire year—and at the same …

Ask Dr. Bitcoin: How to avoid scams, a basic guide

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

We at SiliconANGLE have been following the Bitcoin market and community for a while now and with each jump in valuation and press cycle comes new blood rushing in like a tide. As a result of new people entering the scene there’s …

Microsoft Xbox One: Apps, entertainment, and the personal cloud rolling in

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Microsoft’s Xbox One isn’t just an interesting piece of hardware with an upgraded controller, better Kinect, and a nice boatlaod of games–it’s also a bevy of new social applications, an entire network, and a space for players to take advantage of everything …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 Nov 20: Crowd-funded ‘Assassination Market’ surfaces, Senate virtual currency hearing full of love for BTC

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

It’s time to bring in the Bitcoin news good with the bad. A so-called crowd-funded “Assassination Market” run by a shifty wannabe political specter surfaced that takes bitcoins as bounty to kill government officials—but that hasn’t done much to dampen the great …

Sauce Labs helps Savings.com prepare for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday crush

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

For retailers and those who support their customers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday can put a massive strain on company resources–hardware, software, and personnel. In the DevOps scene, those personnel are the developers, testers, and finally operators who have to build, QA, …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Ask Dr. Bitcoin: How environmentally friendly is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 December 4: Bitcoinity switches to mBTC, Kevin Rose speaks, CoinMap maps, and China rises

NASA’s NextGen air traffic control lab gets a development collaboration upgrade with Stash

Using Big Data to predict product launch succcess with dunnhumby stats at hack/reduce

Bitcoin value hits $1,000

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 27: Black Friday Edition

Ask Dr. Bitcoin: How to avoid scams, a basic guide

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 Nov 20: Crowd-funded ‘Assassination Market’ surfaces, Senate virtual currency hearing full of love for BTC

Sauce Labs helps Savings.com prepare for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday crush

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