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Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 6: Uber and Xapo partner in Argentina, Netki $3.5m seed round, John McAfee’s 2 petahash mining facility, BTC Halving Day parties
Today’s Bitcoin Weekly shows that once again Bitcoin is proving to be a powerful alternate payment system to traditional credit and debit processors (such as Visa and MasterCard) as the Argentinian government attempts to push ridesharing app company Uber Technologies, Inc. out by shutting down payment avenues. Bitcoin wallet service and processor Xapo Ltd. has ...
Netki raises $3.5m in seed round to expand cryptocurrency digital identity platform
Digital identity startup Netki, Inc., which provides secure cryptocurrency payment systems, announced that it raised $3.5 million USD in a seed round led by O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures today. Joining the round was Donuts, Colle Capital, The Husseini Group, Digital Currency Group, Plug and Play, Base Ventures, Tom Turney, and Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex. Founded in 2014, ...
Developers getting more out of Red Hat between containers and .NET Core 1.0 | #RHSummit
This year’s Red Hat Summit 2016 led with a number of announcements that bring a diversified set of open source tools to developers using Red Hat Linux. Amid them Red Hat’s announcement of new container storage innovations with the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and a partnership with Microsoft, which open-sourced core parts of its ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 June 29: China extend consumer protection to bitcoins, Hillary Clinton blockchain mention, Australian BTC auction $15 million, Satoshi Nakamoto bobblehead
Attention to Bitcoin and blockchain technology has seen a rally this week with a great deal of new news and information appearing in a crush now that it’s the end of June. It’s also seen that Bitcoin markets have been rallying since the Brexit decision where England and Wales voted to leave the European Union ...
Using nano-segmentation Apcera looks to bring cloud trust to Docker container deployment
Highly secure trusted cloud platform provider Apcera, Inc. today announced the release of its own approach to securely managing Docker containers in production at scale. The product is an enterprise-ready orchestration framework called the Apcera Trusted Cloud Platform and it is designed to address today’s gaps in container deployment, management and scalability with an eye ...
The SPACE VR platform will put you in your own virtual world for work
As virtual reality headsets slowly come to market they have presented themselves primarily as a new vehicle for entertainment: VR movies and video games. However, another market has already begun to emerge where developers are approaching VR for work. With this in mind Pygmal Technologies announced the release of the SPACE VR platform for work ...
VictorOps releases feature-rich Incident Automation Engine for DevOps teams
This week VictorOps Inc., a real-time incident management company producing DevOps solutions, announced the release of the Incident Automation Engine. This new product displays a set of automation features for on-call teams designed to increase mean time to resolution (MTTR) by using intelligent alerts, sophisticated routing and smarter system outputs. It has always been one ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 June 22: Updates on theft from the DAO, Bitfinex temporary shutdown, Gemini goes to the U.K.
This has been an interesting week for blockchain-based cryptocurrencies with an attacker stealing money from the Ethereum DAO (a decentralized company run entirely by smart contracts). The Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex went offline for approximately four hours during one of Bitcoin’s highest volatility periods to date due to a networking issue at its datacenter. And, also ...
Bitfinex Bitcoin exchange already back online after datacenter networking issues downtime
Early this morning, Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex (BFXNA Inc.) went offline for a few hours due to networking issues at its datacenter. This affected all customers when the website would not load and it happened in the midst of a noticeable rise in the market value of bitcoins—BTC market value has shot up from $450 near ...
Docker 1.12 will ship with built in DevOps orchestration | #DockerCon
As containers continue to evolve and become a necessary part of a multitude of deployments, Docker, Inc. has remained on the ball with DevOps expectations and added built-in orchestration to its most recent release. Docker 1.12 will ship with added core features designed to make multi-host and multi-container orchestration easier with new API objects, zero-configuration ...