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Bitcoin Weekly 2013 June 26: California Threatens the Bitcoin Foundation, BitAngels First Investment, and a Bitcoin Pub
Lots of random little things around the Bitcoin world this week. The government of California threatened The Bitcoin Foundation with an odd cease-and-desist letter that alleged that the foundation does something it doesn’t do. BitAngels made its first investment into a startup. And, a pub in London has started accepting bitcoins for booze. California takes ...
Hadoop and Splunk Make Hunk: A Cute Name for a Powerful Big Data Tool
Hadoop is by far one of the most powerful and most popular open-source frameworks for supplying Big Data applications with much needed storage and access to terabytes of data and more–and as well all know storage and collection are becoming easier, but as a result analysis is becoming more complex. Splunk is already also an ...
California Sends Cease and Desist Order to the Bitcoin Foundation
The Bitcoin Foundation caught the attention of California’s Department of Financial Institutions after last month’s Bitcoin 2013 conference and this prompted the CFDI to send a cease and desist letter alleging that the Foundation was engaged in “the business of money transmission without a license or proper authorization.” An odd cease-and-desist to say the least ...
Raspberry Pi and Tor: Meet Adafruit’s Onion Pi Wireless Privacy Router
The amazing Adafruit Industries has come up with a combination of the Raspberry Pi–a small, micro form factor general purpose computer–with a wireless card and Tor–a powerful Internet anonymizing network and service–in one device: the Onion Pi. For just $90, you can get a kit to construct this little hardware-based peace-of-mind-and-privacy device. The idea is ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 June 19: Government Accountability, Taxes and Bitcoin? TorBroker for Trading Stocks; Physical Wallets TREZOR and Firmcoin
The US government and other nations are starting to wake up to the fact that monetary-value is shifting into virtual currencies due to the highly democratized nature of the Internet and the interests of cyberspace users in valuable virtual commodity. This is the center of a new US GAO report on how virtual currencies such ...
The Industrial Internet Will Open Up a Whole New Horizon for Developers
Development and operations have never quite seen a challenge like is being heralded by the advent of the Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet—two things that mean essentially the same thing, but exist in different contexts. To make matters more interesting these concepts bind together not only a multitude of devices, but everything we ...
A New Era of Multiplayer Gaming As Seen at #E3 2013
I’ve been studying and playing massively multiplayer online (MMO) games for years now and the most fun element of all of them is having and seeing in-universe human cohabitation in that virtual world. In fact, this is the particular definition that separates an MMO from something that’s just massive and multiplayer. This E3, Sony, Microsoft, ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 June 12: IRS Eyes Bitcoin Over Tax Evasion, PRISM’s Effect On BTC Prices, Israeli Banks Resisting Exchanges
This past week saw a huge explosion of media surrounding domestic spying and the deep puncturing of trust and privacy by US Internet users (and people in general) with the revelations surrounding Verizon and the NSA and then immediately thereafter the leaks involving PRISM. This has driven a lot of thought about what BTC can ...
PRISM, NSA, and Privacy: The Fundamental Need for Whistleblowers and the Danger of Institutional Secrecy
Whistleblowers and leaks mean more than ever in this era of information overload and information security. The intelligence community is fundamentally about two things: knowing true things and spreading untrue things so that rivals know less true things. The Internet has changed fundamentally not just how information is gathered—but how personal information is produced and ...
Watch Dogs #E3 2013: Ubisoft is Still Teasing and We’re Still Loving It
Last year, we were teased with this surveillance techno-thriller from Ubisoft to great effect and if we include the recent revelations about the NSA spy programs, it certainly is beginning to strike home. This year’s Ubisoft press conference brought up a new trailer…short, sweet, to the point–and powerful. Yet still, it’s just a tease. Little ...