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 2013 July 10: Flattr Adds Bitcoin Donations, First DEA Seizure of BTC, Bitcoin Machine ATMs Coming this Summer

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

It’s been a weird week for Bitcoin value, while it seemed to be holding fairly level at $90 last Bitcoin Weekly, the value fell to near $65 but is now hovering around $77. It’s not uncommon for the price of bitcoins to …

Club Nintendo Suffers Hacking Attempt that Compromises 24,000 Accounts

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Last week 24,000 user accounts associated with the Japanese Club Nintendo website have been compromised after a month-long campaign by hackers to break in. According to the Japan Times, Nintendo gave warning via a press release last Friday that the accessed data …

Windows that Talk to Sleepy Passengers Coming to Sky-Deutschland Trains

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Here’s a direction I didn’t quite expect bone-conduction audio to go—that is, a technology that enables audio devices to use human bones as resonators to play sounds (this technology would be good for hearing aids, and low-noise audio devices that are not …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 3: Winklevoss Twins Plan Bitcoin Trust, Bitcoin Foundation Tells California to Talk to the Hand, China Gets into the Bitcoin Game

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Instead of a lot of financial drama or even regulation, this week Bitcoin has seen its share of good news. A Bitcoin Trust being planned by none other than the Winklevoss twins might inject some new value into the market—or cause turmoil, …

Winklevoss Twins File Plans for $20m Bitcoin Trust IPO with the SEC

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The Winklevoss twins—famous for suing Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook—have unveiled plans to fund a Bitcoin-related trust. The application, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1st, 2013 outlines a trust that will initially sell approximately $20m worth of shares …

Minecraft 1.6: Horses—Need I Say More?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The much-anticipated latest-and-greater version of Minecraft developed by Marcus “Notch” Persson and published by Mojang hit the Internet today with v1.6 and it adds horses. It adds a lot of other things, like bug fixes, better performance, a new launcher, and a lot …

When Culture Shock Meets Social Media: League of Legends Player in Jail Over Facebook Comments

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

A Texas teen could face up to eight years in prison over a comment left on Facebook that took place as part of an exchange about the online game League of Legends. Justin Carter was 18 years old back in Feburary of …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 June 26: California Threatens the Bitcoin Foundation, BitAngels First Investment, and a Bitcoin Pub

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Lots of random little things around the Bitcoin world this week. The government of California threatened The Bitcoin Foundation with an odd cease-and-desist letter that alleged that the foundation does something it doesn’t do. BitAngels made its first investment into a startup. …

Hadoop and Splunk Make Hunk: A Cute Name for a Powerful Big Data Tool

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Hadoop is by far one of the most powerful and most popular open-source frameworks for supplying Big Data applications with much needed storage and access to terabytes of data and more–and as well all know storage and collection are becoming easier, but …

California Sends Cease and Desist Order to the Bitcoin Foundation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The Bitcoin Foundation caught the attention of California’s Department of Financial Institutions after last month’s Bitcoin 2013 conference and this prompted the CFDI to send a cease and desist letter alleging that the Foundation was engaged in “the business of money transmission …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 10: Flattr Adds Bitcoin Donations, First DEA Seizure of BTC, Bitcoin Machine ATMs Coming this Summer

Club Nintendo Suffers Hacking Attempt that Compromises 24,000 Accounts

Windows that Talk to Sleepy Passengers Coming to Sky-Deutschland Trains

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 3: Winklevoss Twins Plan Bitcoin Trust, Bitcoin Foundation Tells California to Talk to the Hand, China Gets into the Bitcoin Game

Winklevoss Twins File Plans for $20m Bitcoin Trust IPO with the SEC

Minecraft 1.6: Horses—Need I Say More?

When Culture Shock Meets Social Media: League of Legends Player in Jail Over Facebook Comments

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 June 26: California Threatens the Bitcoin Foundation, BitAngels First Investment, and a Bitcoin Pub

Hadoop and Splunk Make Hunk: A Cute Name for a Powerful Big Data Tool

California Sends Cease and Desist Order to the Bitcoin Foundation

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