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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) ...
DevOps into 2014: The biggest challenges for DevOps next year (Part 2 of 2)
In the first part, we discussed the practical adoption of DevOps practices (and the potential pitfalls of failing to instance them properly) as well as how the market right now is being flooded with new ideas and tools. But other challenges that affect DevOps include how tools work for developers and operations. One big area ...
DevOps into 2014: The biggest challenges for DevOps next year (Part 1 of 2)
The highly adaptive and fast-paced schedule of deployment and development of the service-based and application software market has driven companies to push hard for faster-and-faster cycles. This in turn has put a strain on the humans behind the scenes as well as the hardware. DevOps ideally uses the power of computing to make it easier ...
Bitcoin Weekly: Predictions for BTC in 2014
With 2013 wrapping up we’ve seen some amazing movement and popularization for the cryptocurrency so-named Bitcoin. The beginning of 2013 saw BTC value at $13 and through a series of leaps and bounds the value eventually exceeded $1000—this is great for speculators but the general volatility has been feared as something of a thorn in ...
Ask Dr. Bitcoin: What if I want to get into Bitcoin mining?
“I want to get into Bitcoin mining, but I just don’t know where to look or what to buy. When is a good time to get into the community for mining?” asks Looking For a Mining Hat. Well, Looking, interestingly enough, when there’s a lull in the hype surrounding Bitcoin makes for a good time ...
DevOps into 2014: The cloud will be a huge driver of innovation and progress
It’s the end of 2013 and the year is closing out on an industry that has discovered that the nature of DevOps is a multi-layered highly-channeled experience that has been changing the face of IT and development. DevOps relies on tools that abstract away manual hands-on involvement in deployment and testing processes by automatically configuring ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 December 18: More Chinese market upheval, EU banking authority warning about BTC, Tor Project thumbs-up Bitcoin donations
After reaching $1000, Bitcoin market value has seen a bit of turmoil and a tumble with China being at the forefront. Rumors and regulation make the grade and Dr. Bitcoin has weighed in on the trajectory of the currency’s value and the expectations involving China and India. This Wednesday, that rumor is starting to look ...
Casascius coins shuts down after notice from the Federal Government
Back in 2011 when the amazing and beautiful Casascius coins came to my attention it seemed obvious that the minted “coins” could be considered anything more than novelty. However, seeing as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (or FINCEN) has sent Mike Caldwell a nastygram regarding his business of minting the bitcoin-wallet holding coins citing his ...