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Stockholm hopes to become the first city to receive 5G in 2018 to boost IoT growth
The cities of Stockholm, Sweden and Tallinn, Estonia will become among the first two cities in the world to receive blazing fast 5G mobile networks provided by a partnership between Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera AB and Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson). According to The Local SE, the partners intend to deliver the network ...
A Counter-Strike virtual item marketplace is paving the way for bitcoin trades
Digital clothing is a staple of video game economies–in fact, many multiplayer games essentially fund themselves by selling funny hats (looking at you Team Fortress 2). So when Bitcoin payment processor BitPay, Inc. partnered with OPSkins, a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) skins trading site, it seemed like a match made for business. CS:GO is a first-person ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 20: Kraken aquires Coinsetter, Mike Hearn: “Bitcoin failed”, Cryptsy hacked, BitPay on Bitcoin 2015
Lots of big news this week for the Bitcoin community and it’s hard to keep on top of what should be put in the spotlight. In the end two major stories take the stage: Kraken’s acquisition of Coinsetter (which moves the European majority exchange onto the North American continent) and Mike Hearn’s desertion of the ...
Bitcoin exchange Kraken to aquire New York-based Coinsetter and Canada-based Cavirtex
Kraken (Payward, Inc.), a global Bitcoin exchange headquartered in San Francisco, is expanding its reach with the acquisition of New York-based Coinsetter Inc. and Cavirtex, a Canadian exchange based in Calgary was acquired by Coinsetter in 2015 after the former exchange suffered a hack that shut trading down. This move allows Kraken to expand trading into the United ...
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 ...