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Bitcoin Weekly 2016 February 10: Steam getting Bitcoin payments, Simplex $7M Series A, Coin Center raises $1M, Hyperledger expands membership
Bitcoin may be getting a boost with a potential unfolding partnership between Valve Corp. and BitPay, Inc.! Redditors have discovered payment code in Valve’s video game distribution platform Steam that will allow bitcoin payments for US customers. In Bitcoin finance, credit card processing company SimplexCC, Ltd. announced $7 million in Series A funding to assist Bitcoin ...
The Pirate Bay launches broadside at copyright cartels with in-browser streaming
Notorious torrent search website, The Pirate Bay, has put a shot across the bow of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and other copyright groups with the addition of Torrents-Time, a browser plug-in that allows video streaming directly from the site. When searching video torrents a “Stream It! (BETA)” link now appears that launches ...
Flaws in ‘secure’ browsers from Avast, Comodo and Malwarebytes can’t hide from Google
Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy has uncovered and disclosed flaws in anti-virus products based on Google’s Chromium browser offered by Avast, Comodo and Malwarebytes. Each of these flaws either permits attackers to run code on the computers of unsuspecting users or opens customers up to being spied upon. Chromium is an open-source browser ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 February 3: Wargaming joins forces with Bitpay, Spells of Genesis beta, Blockstream raises $55m, Japanese VC invests in Kraken
This week gamers get a boost from Wargaming as they’ll be able to buy their tanks, planes and warships in World of Tanks/Warplanes/Warships with bitcoin, thanks to a deal with BitPay. The blockchain-based tradable card game Spells of Genesis published by EverdreamSoft has also announced its beta (with web, Android and iOS mobile apps). And ...
Blockchain-based tradable card game Spells of Genesis enters beta
Today Spells of Genesis (SoG), an interesting blockchain-based tradable card game (TCG), went into beta with the game available on iOS and Android. The publisher of SoG, EverdreamSoft SA, uses a blockchain (the same technology that underlies bitcoin) to allow players to own and trade the virtual cards used in the game, along with its ...
Tom Clancy’s The Division beta is almost over, what have we learned?
I played during Tom Clancy’s The Division closed beta to get a hands-on look at what players can expect from this next-gen third person hybrid-MMO multiplayer shooter. While the beta felt rather small and sparse, it provided an excellent view of things to come in the game, but it was not without its flaws. The Division ...
How can Twitch users prepare for Facebook live streaming?
Facebook’s new live streaming service won’t compete with Twitch, but it is a new way for Twitch streamers to interact with fans. Here’s how. Last August, Facebook, Inc. announced the upcoming launch of Live—a mobile-centric streaming service that would connect celebrities with their fans through live-streaming video—today the social media giant released the service in ...
Wercker raises $4.5 million to open-source CLI container development tool
When it comes to automating the containerization, configuration and deployment of services the right tools for the job go a long way, which is what Wercker BV’s business is all about. Today the company announced that it has raised $4.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Inkef Capital with participation from existing ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 27: Kraken and CloudFlare Twitter tiff, BitPay adds full nodes to the Azure BaaS cloud, EU will wait to regulate virtual currency
In this week’s Bitcoin Weekly, a kerfuffle caught the Bitcoin community by surprise when Kraken started to have connectivity problems and then a Twitter exchange with CloudFlare, Inc. arose. Keep reading for the blow-by-blow of information traded — which appears to revolve around an expired credit card and then an unexpectedly changed SSL certificate. BitPay, ...
World’s first Raspberry Pi drag-and-drop IoT project builder Cayenne launches today
Internet of Things (IoT) middleware applications developer myDevices (Avanquest North America Inc.) announced today the release of the first drag-and-drop app that will clear the way for development of IoT projects on the Raspberry Pi. As an IoT developer platform Adafruit Industries’ Raspberry Pi is a popular low-cost go-to Linux tool useful for rapidly prototyping small, ...