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Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 14: DD4BC arrests, CoinDesk aquired by DCG, Eternity Wall for Blockchain messages and visualizing 2015 Core development
Good news for the Internet today. Members of DD4BC have been arrested, so perhaps some websites can breathe a sigh of relief. DDoS extortion crews have been on the rise across 2014 and 2015 (and into 2016), and sometimes these groups demand Bitcoin as ransom. Having two less potential members of extortion crews in the ...
Bitcoin Yearly 2015: A retrospective on an entire year of cryptocurrency (Part II)
The second half of 2015 is filled with the same ups and downs as the first half, although the market value of Bitcoin continues to steadily rise. In this half of 2015 we see more hacks occur, DDoS attacks against exchanges and websites alike, and even an attempt to extort the community with a scam ...
Bitcoin Yearly 2015: A retrospective on an entire year of cryptocurrency (Part I)
The Bitcoin Weekly column has been running more than two years now and there’s a great deal to cover. The year 2015 was not the breakout year most of the Bitcoin community would have had, but it’s obvious this year the financial industry noticed Bitcoin and the blockchain. Last year saw the amount of venture ...
Sony confirms more than 100 VR titles in development for PlayStation VR | #CES2016
The race to virtual reality is on and Sony Corporation intends to win it for the consoles with the Sony VR (formerly Project Morpheus). To do this, the company has confirmed “about 100 or more” VR titles currently in development for its PlayStation console and VR headset. When asked by the BBC if he thought ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 6: Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service additions, Isle of Man cryptocurrency, BTCC ignores DDoS ransom, Cryptsy trading shut down
The new year for Bitcoin is fully upon us with a great deal of news spanning the entire community. Blockchain-related technologies continue to take the forefront with Microsoft’s Azure cloud Blockchain-as-a-Service, which has added BitPay, Manifold Technology, LibraTax and Emercoin. Enterprise blockchain platform provider Gem just netted the first venture capital of the new year ...
PlayStation Network offline, Sony is investigating
The PlayStation Network under the command of Sony Computer Entertainment (Sony Corp.) has been knocked offline, and the gaming company is investigating the reasons. The outage affects all services and up-to-date status information can be found at the PSN PlayStation.com services page. Unable to log in, frustrated gamers spoke out on social media, and Sony ...
Akamai: DDoS will expand attack scope on gaming and technology companies in 2016
Nothing infuriates Internet users more than slow loading, buffering and other evidence of a sluggish network. On the forefront of making certain that the “data must flow” is Akamai Technologies, Inc., a powerful Content Delivery Network (CDN) and cloud provider. As a content provider, Akamai is on the forefront of protecting its clients (who have ...
Nexusguard: 2016 will be the year of proactive, shared defense against DDoS
In 2015, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were estimated to represent a significant portion of the $15.4 million per year cybercrime cost to average American firms (taken in a study from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP). Looking to 2016, and acknowledging the trends of previous years, it’s apparent that DDoS has gone through many ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 30: Happy New Year, Factom Honduras project stalled, 2016 predictions and the 15 millionth bitcoin
It’s almost the New Year and 2016 is just a few days away. A good time to look back at where Bitcoin has been and where it’s still going. To that end, read below to see predictions on the Bitcoin market from Business Insider and Bitcoin luminary (and exchange owner) Erik Voorhees. News has also ...
21, Inc. releases comprehensive 21 Bitcoin Library for developers
Today 21, Inc. producer of the 21 Bitcoin Computer, a tiny programmable Linux machine with a Bitcoin miner attached, announced the release of a comprehensive library for use with the machine. This is expected to be the first step on a roadmap towards a portable open-source release. This continues 21’s strong show for its developer ...