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Bitcoin Weekly 2013 October 30: World’s first Bitcoin ATM in Canada, FBI finally got DPR’s BTC booty, London-based Coinfloor launches
Growth continues for the Bitcoin market as it continues to maintain a value above $200 even with some fluctuations. The world’s first Bitcoin ATM has been set up in a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada that allows people to easily exchange BTC for CDN—something that, if it were ubiquitous enough, could break the consumer-difficulty with ...
Minecraft 1.7 Patch Changes, Rearranges, Turns-Upside-Down the Virtual World
The next massive update to Minecraft is rolling off the assembly line as this blog post is typed and the 1.7.2 patch is a real doozy. Developer Mojang has announced its availability and it’s already rolling out to the launcher so that people have it ready to go. No doubt many servers will soon follow. ...
PHP.net Compromised, Caught Potentially Spreading Malware
For a short time today, it appears that something managed to compromise the PHP.net web pages and alter some of the JavaScript present to spread malware. Earlier today, Barracuda Labs quickly published a blog post researching the hits and speculating about what happened. Earlier today Google’s stop-badware system caught this as well and flagged php.net ...
Exclusive: Interview with City of Titans Project Lead Chris Hare and Lead of Composition William Strickland
City of Titans, to-be-developed by Missing Worlds Media, has been heralded from the get-go as the spiritual successor to now-lost City of Heroes and is running a Kickstarter campaign (already fully funded) that has exceeded $470,000 and still has more than ten days to go. Known originally as The Phoenix Project, CoT is a superhero ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 October 23: Post-Silk Road Bitcoin Exceeds $200 and Chinese Interest in BTC On the Rise
It’s only been since April that Bitcoin value reached $240 and then fell once again below $200–so this last week, seeing the currency surge back up brings a lot of speculation to people following these changes. Add in the amazing recovery from the uncertainty of SR’s demise and a sudden increase in press and popularity–after ...
Telerik Rolls Out Enhancements to DevTools for Mobile, Cloud and Cross-Platform Support
Telerik announced the Q3 release of its leading .NET development tools suite for use with its software application, lifecycle, and content management solutions. The company is advancing its existing toolset with touch capabilities, which now delivers major mobile, cloud and cross-platform enhancements, and analytics to more than one million developers. The advancement includes integrated analytics ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 October 16: MtGox Upgrades Its Game, Economist Predicts Backlash, Dwolla Throws in the Bitcoin Towel
Bitcoin value has seen a banner week with a remarked recovery from a sudden dip in value during the Silk Road raid to see value soar from $140 before to hover around $150 now with peaks near $160. With the SR takedown almost two weeks ago, it appears that the whole affair only had breif ...
Ada Lovelace Day: A Proud Legacy for Coders
Computers have one feature in common from the first engines of computation to the most modern quantum models: they’re all built to permit customization to task. Computers are programmable–either in hardware or software–and this is what makes them the versatile central technology of computation that makes them the “brain.” As a result, computers science and ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 October 9th: Bitcoin Community Mocks FBI Over Silk Road Takedown, Bitcointak.org Is Back, BitPay Updates Pricing
The Silk Road takedown has shaken up the Bitcoin community to an extent but once the dust settled it’s hard to say that it hurt anything. In fact, it’s easy to argue that in taking down the Silk Road the FBI has just forwarded their cat-and-mouse game with illegal activity and vindicated the use of ...
Silk Road Shutdown Leads to Further International Arrests
Further arrests have surfaced in relation to the recent raid, and shutdown, of Silk Road–an anonymized website existing in the “dark web” that facilitated illegal activity and drug sales. Only last week the FBI raided the Silk Road website and arrested the alleged founder, 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht (aka the Dread Pirate Roberts.) The raid appears ...