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Bitcoin Weekly 2016 September 14: McAfee Bitcoin mining starts, blockchain innovation, Apple ‘authorized currency’ and more
This week, Bitcoin mining is getting a boost from two different directions. The first is from John McAfee’s MGT Capital Investments, which just spun up its first mining operation in the U.S. at 2.6 PetaHash, a company that also intends to develop security services for Bitcoin users, merchants and miners. The second is from Bitcoin ...
Nokia enhances the VR broadcast ecosystem with OZO Live and the OZO Player SDK
The business of virtual reality (VR) is heating up with the consumer release of headsets, which means that demand for VR content will begin to follow. To keep up with that demand and put tools in the hands of content creators and VR businesses, technology company Nokia Corporation recently announced OZO Live—a real-time VR broadcast ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 September 7: BitcoinTalk.org hacked database for sale, Apple’s cryptocurrency ‘approved list,’ Airbitz ‘foolproof’ password recovery
It looks like the database from BitcoinTalk.org, hacked and stolen in May 2015 has gone up for sale on the dark web from a vendor calling themselves “DoubleFlag.” It can be yours today for 1 BTC (about $620). After being banned from the Apple iTunes App Store for supporting the Dash payment method, the founder ...
Linode struck by ‘catastrophic DDoS attack’ over Labor Day weekend
Hosting provider Linode LLC was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack over the Labor Day weekend that intermittently took services offline. The company boasts that it is one of the world’s top providers of virtual private servers (VPS) and according to BuiltWith.com the company hosts over 500,000 websites across the Internet. ...
Qualcomm Snapdragon all-in-one VR Android mobile headset will turn developers’ heads
Telecommunications chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. announced yesterday its ambitious specification for a powerful, standalone virtual reality (VR) headset called the Snapdragon VR280. The headset will be built on Qualcomm’s 820 mobile processor and software development kit (SDK) designed to work with modern VR software. The hardware is being developed in collaboration with Chinese electronics company ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 September 1: Bitcoin exchange hacks will continue, ZapChain shuts down, Roger Ver joins PIA board, blockchain for banks tested by Visa
Did you know that between 2009 and 2015 almost one-third of all Bitcoin exchanges suffered a hack and that almost half of all exchanges during the period closed? Not too surprising, given that Bitcoin is still an emerging and developing market, but this statistic from a report out of the University of Tulsa’s Tandy School of ...
FAA rules come into effect today that will bring commercial drones to U.S. skies
Today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the regulatory body in the United States tasked with assigning rules and roles to flying vehicles, brought into effect the first rules that affect the use of commercial drones in the skies of America. Companies and commercial drone pilots interested in taking advantage of these rules must first pass ...
Domino’s teams up with Flirtey for drone pizza delivery in New Zealand
Domino’s Pizza just made the first step towards the strange future of pizza delivery by drone, with a test project in New Zealand. The fast food chain has partnered with drone business Flirtey to become the first commercial drone delivery service in the world—which will begin flying pizzas and wings to homes later this year. Flirtey ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 24: Bitstamp turns 5 Ledger wallet giveaway, CEO of CHBTC interview, final Silk Road BTC auction and Bitcoin Core 0.13.0
This week brings a birthday for London-based Bitstamp Bitcoin exchange, the company is turning five and is giving away a bunch of Nano Ledger hardware wallets. News outlet CryptoCoinsNews interviewed the CEO of China-based exchange CHBTC, who answered some questions about China and Bitcoin. The final auction for bitcoins sized in the Silk Road auction, ...
Blockchain.info ‘down’ briefly due to an unexpected DNS problem
The major Bitcoin wallet and blockchain explorer website Blockchain.info (Blockchain Luxembourg S.A.) went “offline” for a unknown amount of time today when a Domain Name Service (DNS) issue made it impossible to visit the site. The problem has been fixed, but some users may still be having trouble visiting http://blockchain.info until the fix propagates. Some ...