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Bitcoin pegged sidechains whitepaper reveals new horizons for cryptocurrency
This last summer Adam Back, developer of the Bitcoin algorithm HashCash, and Austin Hill, founder anonymous networking and privacy technology company Zero-Knowledge Systems, teased the idea of Bitcoin sidechains: a mechanism for transferring Bitcoins to a separate-but-connected blockchain that can be used like an alt-currency but has its Proof of Work and value entangled with ...
Sumo Logic unveils Transaction Analysis component for its analytics platform
Sumo Logic, a machine data intelligence company based in California, today announced the general availability of Transaction Analytics as part of its analytics platform. This technology applies the concept of mining connections between transactions to take complex systems and provide patterns with context. As a data intelligence company, Sumo Logic hopes to provide customers a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 22: Gavin Andresen Reddit AMA, Bitcoin community vs. NYDFS BitLicense, and more
The current trends in the Bitcoin show that while progress is slow, it’s constantly building momentum. Last week, Andreas Antonopoulos went before the Canadian Senate and gave an amazing 2 hour talk, this week Gavin Andresen went to Reddit and gave amazing answers. The public comments period for the New York Department of Financial Services ...
The rise and fall of the Anonabox Kickstarter highlights demand for simple privacy
In a world where TV shows make it obvious that most personal communications on the Internet are hardly anonymous—anyone who watches Scorpion or Person of Interest probably has this sense. Many users may desire to return to a sense of simple security and privacy. But privacy often proves far from simple and most Internet users ...
OpenStack breaks open the floodgates for big data in the cloud with Juno
The OpenStack Foundation unveiled the Juno release of its popular open source cloud stack on October 16 marking its 10th major release. The project features a number of new improvements and advances including the Sahara Data Processing Service, full integration of Swift storage, Neutron networking IPv6 support, improved rescue mode for Nova, and multi-cloud federation ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 15: Bitcoin breaks $400, Antonopoulos speaks to Canadian Senate, Butterfly Labs vs. FTC
The Bitcoin market had an exciting week with the market value breaking over the $400 mark again–but it’s been hovering above and below the $400 band since that happened. Canada received an amazing talk from Andreas Antonopoulos, previous Chief Security Officer at Blockchain.info and author of “Mastering Bitcoin,” who spoke to the Canadian senate with ...
Apple Watch vs. Dick Tracy, The Jetsons & Pip-Boy 3000
The Apple Watch is out and there’s already comparisons being run against other products of a similar vein such as Galaxy Gear S, Sony Smartwatch 3, and the ASUS ZenWatch. It’s certainly been a few years of wearable watches—but how does the Apple Watch compare to its fictional precursors? Science fiction writers have had a ...
Big data is the smart tool for the evolving future of cyberdefense | #Splunkconf
There’s an old adage about technology that goes something like, “If you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door.” The flipside to this, especially in the world of cyberdefense, viruses, malware, and worms is that somewhere out there someone is building a superior mouse. The past decade of networked ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 Oct 8: Gavin Anderesen on Bitcoin scalability, Blockchain receives $30m, Bill Gates, the BearWhale is dead
The news from this week contains a mixture of the usual Bitcoin expectations from developers speaking up, to technologists speaking out, and funding rounds coming to important outfits. Gavin Anderseen, best known as a Bitcoin core developer, has spoken up about needed changes to the Bitcoin block chain to address issues of scalability in a ...
Splunk MINT makes a home for mobile data with enterprise and DevOps analytics
As more businesses extend reach into the mobile realm, it is becoming ever more important to be able to instrument and gather data from mobile applications. To ease this form of instrumentation, Splunk Inc. announced today the general availability of Splunk MINT Express and Splunk MINT Enterprise (beta). Splunk MINT Express is a cloud service ...
