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Bitcoin Weekly 2015 June 10: ShapeShift iOS app, Bitcoin mugging, Voxelnauts, T0.com cryptobonds, and more
The news out of the Bitcoin community this week is extremely electric and involves numerous businesses and projects continuing to expand innovate. ShapeShift, Erik Vorhees’s no-registration bitcoin/altcoin exchange, is getting an iOS app. Voxelnauts from Retro Ronin is running a Kickstarter to launch a Minecraft-clone sandbox MMORPG that will link to the NXT blockchain. Kraken ...
Kickstarter: Voxelnauts MMO plans to use NXT-based blockchain virtual property management
Watching the trailer video for Retro Ronin’s VR sandbox Minecraft-like game Voxelnauts engenders memories of the Final Fantasy series (it’s the music.) The game is currently on Kickstarter and has half-way funded its $200,000 goal to deliver a VR-based MMORPG that will allow players to build their own universe. To make things more interesting, the ...
Developers unbox recently shipped HTC Vive VR headsets
The ever-amazing and impressive HTC Vive virtual reality (VR) headsets developed by Valve Corporation are now shipping to studios, the company announced on Friday. The first to receive the Vive Developer Edition include a developers from major movie studios, AAA developers, and small indie teams intent on building their first title. This ship-out is part ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 June 3: New York’s BitLicense final draft released, Block Chain Summit, BTC Regulations by state, and more
It’s going to be hard to top the fact that the New York Department of Financial Services and Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky released the final draft of the proposed BitLicense regulation for New York today. In fact, if there’s anything that Bitcoin readers pay attention to, it should be this, today and possibly for the rest ...
Highlights from the Block Chain Summit: BitFury mining lightbulbs, Lucy Liu, and social media
Ordinarily people would need no reason to visit a picturesque island retreat for a gathering of like minds, partying, and socialization over drinks—add in a group of Bitcoin luminaries and you’ve got the Block Chain Summit of 2015. The summit took place on Richard Branson’s private island from May 25 to May 28 and featured a ...
LEGO releases LEGO Worlds, surprise competitor to Minecraft, on Steam Early Access
What do a lot of people do when trying to describe the block-like sandbox building nature of Minecraft to someone who has never seen the game? We tend to compare it to playing with LEGOs–just on the computer. In the vein of that comparison, The LEGO Group just announced the release of LEGO Worlds, available ...
Zombie Awareness Tips: How to keep your computer from being bitten by a zombie
Millions of computers get bitten a year and become zombies. And, since according to the Zombie Research Center May is Zombie Awareness Month, it makes sense to make computer users aware of zombified computers. It’s not quite as glamorous as the brain-eating undead hordes–but if anyone reading this article is probably reading it on a ...
Zombie Awareness Tips: 5 video games to prepare you for the zombie pandemic
According to the Zombie Research Society, May is “Zombie Awareness Month,” so SiliconAngle’s gamer staff started looking into zombie-related video games that could help you up your game when the zombies come for your brains. After some colorful language, shouts, stomped feet–and a few DVDs featuring George Romero films thrown–we came to a consensus of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 May 27: Roger Ver vs. OKCoin, Streamium pay-per-minute, Bitfinex hacked
High drama in the Bitcoin community is happening right now over the control of the Bitcoin.com domain name as Roger Ver, well-known Bitcoin evangelist and entrepreneur, and OKCoin duke it out over an apparent contract scandal. Currently Bitcoin.com is not going to waste, of course, as it redirects to Blockchain.info (the Bitcoin blockhain explorer and ...
Bitcoin paying Streamium plans to cut out the middleman for livestreaming
Livestreaming service Streamium will bring peer-to-peer streaming video to viewers combined with bitcoin micropayment channels. Streamers on Streamium can opt to be paid bitcoin per minute from viewers. Streamium is the product of a loose collective of Argentinian hackers including Manuel Aráoz, developer of ProofOfExistence.com, and Demian Brener, who wrote in a blog post that ...