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Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 16: Cryptocurrency academic journal Ledger, BlockTrail wallet, CardCash and BitPay, blockchain fintech
This week, Bitcoin and the blockchain, the underlying technology that runs Bitcoin, received some academic attention with the first Bitcoin-related scholarly journal from the University of Pittsburgh named the Ledger. The blockchain itself continues to keep the interest of financial institutions as an economic technology and now nine major world banks are throwing their weight behind a New York-based ...
Say goodbye to Project Morpheus and hello PlayStation VR
Sony Corporation’s virtual reality headset Project Morpheus is no more. The global gaming and hardware company has rebranded its VR headset, set to launch sometime in 2016, to PlayStation VR. Sony announced the change at the Tokyo Game Show this morning in Japan. The name change shifts Sony’s offering from just a VR headset to ...
The University of Pittsburgh is now home to Ledger: the first Bitcoin-only academic journal
The world of Bitcoin is an extremely broad realm filled with interests that intersect mathematics, cryptography, engineering, computer programming, law, finance and economics. Any of these subjects alone could lead a doctoral thesis so it’s no surprise that eventually an academic journal would appear to cover the topic of Bitcoin. Today, the University of Pittsburgh ...
Star Trek Online, Neverwinter Online struck by DDoS attacks twice in one day [UPDATED]
Over the weekend video gamers who enjoy exploring the galaxy in Star Trek Online and fighting orcs with swords in Neverwinter Online found themselves briefly unable to do so. Some players described lag spiking so high that characters began “rubber banding”–or repeatedly teleporting back every time a player tries to move somewhere else. Cryptic Studios, ...
BlockTrail launches secure multi-signature Bitcoin wallet service
Amsterdam-based BlockTrail B.V. is stretching its virtual legs and launching a brand new multiplatform Bitcoin wallet service for iOS, Android, and the web. The service, which has been in the Bitcoin industry since 2014, started originally with a blockchain explorer — a service that allows users to view historical transactions on Bitcoin’s distributed ledger–as well as ...
Tor anonymity network benefits from .onion added as special-use domain name
No, the .onion top level domain (TLD) is not about parody news, it’s a way of accessing websites that run on the Tor (the onion router) network. The Tor network is an Internet fixture that provides anonymity to users by bouncing connections across a wide network to thwart traffic analysis and surveillance. Tor is ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 9: Paymium seed funding, BitPay proposes ‘Bitcoin Association,’ ZeroNet, Coinkite, and UBS
Numerous startups and other Bitcoin businesses are making inroads and receiving capital funding this week. Amid them Bitcoin exchange and financial services company Paymium received $1.2 million (as 1 million EUR), and registration-less cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift revived $1.6 million in funding. Cloud storage company Sync.com announced bitcoin payments and Bitcoin wallet service Coinkite Inc. tweeted ...
Raspberry Pi 7-inch touch display on sale for $60
The official Raspberry Pi touch display is on sale now for $60 meaning that makers and developers with an interesting in hardware will have something to play with on the cheap today. The Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer made by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (based on the ...
Pantheon announces enterprise solution for Drupal and WordPress web content management
Pantheon (product of Pantheon Systems, Inc.) is one of the world’s largest website management platform for Drupal and WordPress and it provides this management with app delivery using containerization. Today, many developer and operations teams are aware of the usefulness of virtual containers for providing the framework for application delivery in a way that eases ...
Sauce Labs magnifies cloud automated mobile testing with a large pool of real devices
Smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices are everywhere and more companies launch mobile and web apps that need to be tested daily to assure capability and quality. Sauce Labs, Inc. an already leading provider of automated testing services is upgrading their cloud automation testing services with the addition of pools of real devices. In today’s ...