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Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 22: Las Vegas Casinos and BTC, North American Bitcoin Conference this weekend, Marc Andreessen on Bitcoin
This week Bitcoin is seeing an increase in notice in countries across the world, but what really caught the attention of the community was Las Vegas: the source of thoughts of casinos and mobsters in the United States. Although it turned out it was the hotels and gift shops attached to casinos accepting BTC (and ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 15: Overstock.com makes over $124k in 24 hours, Pizza sells well for BTC, Richard Garriot talks MMOs
The past week hasn’t been too dramatic for the Bitcoin community as the value vs. USD continues to fluctuate. After battering against $1,000 for a while, the price has fallen to hover between $800 and $900 for a while as new exchanges begin to open and the community pushes for adoption across the world. Just ...
David Clark discusses the Internet, security, and our protocol future on theCUBE at #MIT ECIR 2014
David Clark, who could be described as one of the inventors of TCP/IP (protocols that became the foundation of the Internet), sat down with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelley at MIT ECIR 2014 for an interview in theCUBE. Clark’s list of accolades is long and his title stretches out: Senior Research Scientist, Computer Science and ...
GHash.IO mining pool getting too big, Bitcoin community calls for diversification before it reaches 51%
It looks like the GHash.IO mining pool is getting too big for its britches for the Bitcoin community—and by that it means that the pool-based Bitcoin mining concern is rapidly approaching the dreaded 51% rate. Bitcoin mining is an important part of keeping the cryptocurrency safe by verifying transactions; it’s also how Bitcoin miners add ...
Ask DevOps: Interview with CA Technologies’ Shridhar Mittal
The needs of the enterprise sector when it comes to development, deployment, and operations has been advancing at a pace that only technology can sustain. In the early days of software, development was a question of producing a product in an office or garage, going “gold” and pressing it onto a disc–all that would go ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 8: Bitcoin hits $1000, Zynga tests BTC for cow clicking, KryptoKit gets three big names, BTC bulletin boards in SF
Happy birthday Bitcoin! Along with the start of January, and a great deal of good news surrounding Bitcoin, there’s been a noticeable resurgence of market price for BTC. In the gaming community Zynga has partnered with BitPay to process bitcoins for virtual items and more Minecraft hosts have done the same. KryptoKit has gotten a ...
DevOps Interview: Rajat Bhargava, CEO of JumpCloud
Rajat Bhargava, CEO of JumpCloud, was kind enough to sit down with DevOpsAngle and talk about his experience in the cloud with DevOps. Through JumpCloud he has given a tool to the industry that has been quickly pulling in developers of all stripes. The necessity of powerful tools to virtualize servers, abstract away hardware and heavy lifting ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 1: Indian government raids BTC exchanges, Overstock.com joins the community, Stross and Krugman hate Bitcoin
Happy New Year everyone in the Bitcoin community! This little cryptocurrency that could has racked up yet-another-year of the interesting and the strange and has 2014 ahead of it. These past few weeks have seen something strange from the market in India where the Reserve Bank of India put out an advisory warning about Bitcoin, ...
DerpTrolling continues DDOS trolling gaming sites and Twitch streamers for New Years Eve Day
Yesterday, a new DDOS troll moved onto the gaming scene by lighting up a Twitter account (@DerpTrolling) and began to wash away Internet gaming services. The anti-fireworks and criminal behavior culminated in the harassment of a Twitch streamer named PhantomL0rd who had his address posted onto the Internet to the tune of pizza deliveries and ...
DDOSers targeting Twitch user shut down various gaming services
[UPDATE: The DDOS harassment has continued onto a second day hitting World of Warcraft, Minecraft, and more streamers.] Tonight the Twitch user James “PhantomL0rd” Varga found himself in the crosshairs of a DDOSer going by the moniker DERP (under Twitter handle @DerpTrolling) decided to shut down whatever he was playing. The distributed denial of service (DDOS) ...