Kyt Dotson
Latest from Kyt Dotson
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 November 12: NCR Silver plans Bitcoin support, XChange adds Coinsetter, Quickbooks and BitPay, and crypto demographics
The big Bitcoin news this week comes from NCR Corporation who just announced plans to integrate Bitcoin payments into point of sale systems internationally. This announcement continues to bolster adoption by opening up more avenues for merchants to connect with consumers with Bitcoin. Developers will be overjoyed to hear the XChange Java Library now supports ...
Kickstarting a new way to develop for the Internet of Things with Thingsee One
A group of ex-Nokia employees, founders of a Finnish startup named Haltian, have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to bring the Internet of Things to the hands of developers. The campaign promises to deliver a cheap, sleek hardware platform in the form of the Thingsee One. The Internet of Things is an ever-growing ecology that ...
One week with Google Inbox: A technology reporter’s experience
In many ways Google has reinvented, or at least greatly amplified, how people find information on the Internet by creating the de facto search engine and now the company is trying to reinvent e-mail as well. Inbox is that attempt, a web and mobile client not so much designed around helping people clear out their ...
Swarm crypto-crowdfunding platform incubates its first five startups
SwarmCorp, the world’s first distributed incubator that uses an innovative funding-by-cryptocurrency design, just finished its first-ever Decentralized Demo Day and has announced Techstars as yet another first-ever institutional investor using the native Swarm Coin. Swarm represents an innovative way for projects and startups to gather funding with a democratized, decentralized crowdfunding platform. New ventures produce ...
New functionality and strong community with OpenStack Juno puts devs on top
In April, when OpenStack released open source OpenStack Icehouse, database as a service project Trove was one of its main features. Fast forward six months: OpenStack Foundation releases OpenStack Juno with several new projects, and lots of new features. The 1,400 contributors to this version, OpenStack Juno, included multiple bug fixes (more than 3200 have been squashed) and added more ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 November 5: Coinbase adds multi-sig to Vault and BTC Guild is not shutting down!
It’s nearing the end of 2014 and the Bitcoin economy has seen a lot of different changes in the way that people think about the technology as currency. One way that it has been changing is the continual evolution of services that surround Bitcoin, the rise of Circle, BitPay adding on partners, and now Coinbase ...
How Avatar X hit 10k members : Q&A with Google+ Bitcoin Community owner
The most prolific and populous Bitcoin community on Google+ is hosted by Avatar X, an interesting individual who runs the blog Appatic. He brought the Bitcoin Community into being in 2012 with co-founder Cameron Ruggles, and it has almost been two years running—this month made the milestone of 10,000 members. As a result of this ...
Ebola scares lead surge in downloads of mobile game Plague, Inc.
As news of Ebola outbreaks begins to percolate through the news media and popular TV shows run episodes themed by infectious diseases the gaming public has increasingly shown interest in Plague, Inc. a game about outbreaks. Plague, Inc. is a mobile game where players simulate the outbreak of a deadly worldwide disease and attempt to ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 29: Bitcoin sidechains, the Bits debate, identify scams and frauds, G+ Bitcoin community
This week in Bitcoin is still overshadowed by last week’s Bitcoin sidechains AMA by the authors of a vastly popular whitepaper on this technology that might fundamentally change how the Bitcoin protocol can be used. Scams can be fairly prevalent in the wild, wild west of BTC–even as it slowly gains mainstream adoption (or perhaps ...
CBT Nuggets cooks up Chef training videos to serve DevOps to IT pros
The world of DevOps is slowly filling to the brim with tools, each of which takes on a particular vertical of the whole DevOps experience—but as has been reported before, DevOps is a culture more than it is a single technology. As a result, to have a working DevOps team—much like any other team—the members ...
