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Roger Ver launches casino on Bitcoin.com, Americans not allowed
A brand new Bitcoin casino has launched for international players at Roger Ver’s Bitcoin.com under the domain Casino.Bitcoin.com. The newly minted site is the product of a deal between Bitcoin.com and SoftSwiss Casino Software (SoftSwiss N.V.), a Curaçao-based market leader in online gaming, will bring over 1,000 games including high-stakes gambling. This deal continues to ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 May 11: OpenBazaar 1.1.5, Bitbank Chinese mine, Gemini adds Ethereum trading
Looks like Bitcoin survived the recent appearance and disappearance of self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin, Craig Wright. Who made his debut along with promises of proof last Monday and lasted until Thursday when he abruptly pulled up stakes taking his alleged proof with him and closed his blog. This week’s news is nowhere near as exciting ...
Container automation firm Wercker announces Wercker Workflows for development pipelines
Container-centric developer automation platform Wercker BV today announced the release of Wercker Workflows, management solution for custom Docker container pipelines supporting distributed applications and microservices. Earlier this year, Wercker raised $4.5 million USD in a Series A funding round for a total of $7.5 million USD being put towards the development of this sort of ...
With TVU Networks’ equipment, Virtual Reality broadcast over IP may come to a concert near you
Last month at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2016 conference, TVU Networks, a market leading telecommunications equipment supplier for broadcast media, demonstrated mobile transmission of virtual reality (VR) media over IP. With this technology, TVU expects to deliver the equipment needed to make live broadcast of VR content for wide scale adoption. While video ...
Craig Wright, most recent alleged inventor of Bitcoin says, ‘I’m Sorry’ and quits
In a sudden reversal, Craig Steven Wright–an Australian entrepreneur and computer scientist also the most recent person to claim to be the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin—has rolled up his blog and quit. I’m Sorry I believed that I could do this. I believed that I could put the years of anonymity and hiding ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 May 4: Is Craig Wright actually Satoshi Nakamoto? Yet again hard to say
The Bitcoin community has gotten used to an almost annual turn of discoveries and revelations attempting to unmask the mysterious inventor of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency Bitcoin, the enigma otherwise known as Satoshi Nakamoto. The most recent contender for the title of Satoshi is once again Craig Steven Wright, an Australian academic and businessman, who ...
Coinsource adds 9 new Bitcoin ATMs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas
National Bitcoin ATM (automated teller machine) network Coinsource (Clark, Sharp, and Reynolds, LLC, DBA CoinSource) just announced its largest installation yet by adding seven new machines in the Los Angeles area and two more in Las Vegas. According to the company this makes Coinsource the largest bitcoin ATM provider on the West Coast with 16 ...
Meet VREAL: the startup that wants to become the Twitch of virtual reality
Seattle-based VREAL Inc. (which stands for “Virtual Reality Entertainment And Livestreaming”) seeks to become the first-of-its-kind virtual reality streaming service the likes of which this world has never seen. The service would be similar to game streaming platform Twitch (Twitch Interactive, Inc.), which boasted over 2 million peak concurrent viewers in 2015 and over 35 ...
What new features for Skype for Business means for DevOps and developers
Microsoft recently announced a series of improvements to its Skype platform including upcoming “much anticipated” Skype for Business Preview for Mac OS X El Capitan. The preview is rolling out right now and is available on demand to IT Professionals who can sign up on SkypePreview.com. Skype is already a powerful platform for inter-group communication, ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 April 27: Bitcoin payments come to Steam, Japan OKs virtual currency, an unlucky someone sent 291 BTC as a fee
In what is the biggest coup for the Bitcoin community in 2016, Valve Corporation’s video game platform Steam started taking Bitcoin payments. Keep reading for more details on how that came about and why this is a big deal. Also in video games news for Bitcoin, the gaming marketplace Kinguin just announced that publishers on ...