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Bitcoin Weekly 2015 August 5: Mark Karpeles arrested in Japan, Blockchain.info tricked over Satoshi bitcoins, and more
Mt. Gox is again in the news with the arrest of its CEO Mark Karpeles by Japanese police–no charges have been filed yet, but allegations of serious misconduct have been leveled by authorities. Yesterday, Blockchain.info caused a bit of a row by displaying what looked like Satoshi Nakamoto moving some of the earliest minded bitcoins–which ...
City of Paradigm: A game of drones and autonomous machines
Below is an excerpt from Kyt Dotson’s novel City of Paradigm, a science fiction tale about a fictional 21st century city situated somewhere in California. Each City of Paradigm column is two parts: an excerpt from the novel and an editorial describing the real-world context of the technologies described in the story. Readers may find ...
No, Satoshi did not move any bitcoins today; Blockchain.info was spoofed
Today an excited user on Reddit rushed to talk about a series of five transactions totaling around 250 BTC (approx. $71 thousand) moving from extremely early Bitcoin blocks thought to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto, the enigmatic inventor (or inventors) of Bitcoin. The transactions have quickly been revealed to be spoofed, affecting only Bitcoin wallet and ...
Where did Bashiok go after leaving World of Warcraft? Probably Wildstar [UPDATED]
Last week, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. employee and Community Manager for the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game World of Warcraft Micah “Bashiok” Whipple tendered his resignation to hundreds of replies on the WoW forums. There he announced that he would be leaving his employer to pursue other opportunities. Today, Bashiok tweeted under his personal, non-Blizzard, Twitter account ...
Ethereum officially launches smart-contracts for the world
Ethereum (Ethereum Switzerland GmbH) is a long awaited blockchain technology that supports smart contracts, which are user-generated programs designed to execute a predetermined set of commands (agreed to by all parties) using a Turing-complete programming language. Smart contracts are a concept that can be used to securely execute a variety of services including domain name ...
An updated list of the best Android developer tools for your amazing mobile game
Developers seeking to develop games for Android are presented with a constellation of tools, SDKs, and APIs to assist them along the way. Below is not a definitive list, but should work as a starting point for anyone looking for what is currently available. In early 2015, SiliconANGLE published a similar list, and we’re now ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 29: Mike Tyson, OneBit goes alpha, HP and Bitcoin, investments and blockchain to soar in 2015
This week, an interesting NFC Bitcoin payment system that uses NFC and works at any place that accepts credit cards has gone into alpha testing. Read up on OneBit below. HP posted an interesting article that outlines the power of the Bitcoin blockchain as a basis for contracts (and replacing lawyers?) It also looks like ...
Valve closes major security hole in Steam that enabled account takeover
Digital game distribution platform Steam had a massive security hole that allowed hackers to steal any user blind and the thief only needed a username to do it. That hole is now filled in, according to parent company Valve Corporation. The hijack exploit took advantage of the lost password function. As with most websites, this feature ...
OneBit alpha testing NFC Bitcoin payments at credit card accepting merchants
A Bitcoin app that allows for payments via NFC at credit card accepting merchants has just gone into its alpha stage of testing. OneBit, which started out as an app developed during a MasterCard PayPass hackathon, is now expanding its horizons and embarking on a journey out into the world to test its capabilities. The ...
Gameplay recording platform Kamcord launches easy mobile game livestreaming
Kamcord Inc. already allows users to record and share videos of their mobile gameplay, but now the company is announcing the launch of full mobile game livestreaming capabilities. As recording software, Kamcord boasts more than 1 million registered user profiles and over 50 million videos shared. In total, the service can record and share video ...