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Coinsetter opens up Bitcoin for margin trades and shorting to all users
New York City-based Bitcoin exchange Coinsetter Inc. just announced margin trading capability for all its users. This functionality was previously available to only select business users and allowed those users to trade or short on the deliverable bitcoin market with up to 5.0x leverage. This service is now open to all users. “Coinsetter has made ...
Lizard Squad throws DDoS tantrum over taunts from CEO of Daybreak Games
“So I’m coming for you Julius.” These were the words of John Smedley, CEO of Daybreak Game Company (previously Sony Online Entertainment), when berating 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki on Twitter. The Finnish teen, who has apparent ties to Lizard Squad, was convicted over 50,000 counts of computer crime related charges, but given a 2-year commuted ...
Square Enix announces a new Dragon Quest and it looks like Minecraft
Yesterday video game developer and publisher Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. announced the most recent spin-off game from the long-running Dragon Quest series and it looks surprisingly like a block-placing game we all know. The game is named Dragon Quest Builders and, readers may already have guessed, it has an aesthetic that’s uncannily similar to ...
BitFury grabs another $20m to build 100 MW data center for blockchain infrastructure
BitFury Group, a well-established Bitcoin blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, just announced it raised $20 million in funding with participation from DRW Venture Capital, iTech Capital and Georgian Co-Investment Fund. “The success of yet another funding round validates our business strategy and brings us closer to our ambitious goals,” said Valery Vavilov, CEO ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 8: Bitcoin network woes, ArcBit launch, Bitcurex offers no fees to Greece, and MIT’s Project Enigma
This past weekend and week saw a spike in the number of invalid blocks being mined by Bitcoin miners and a few forks of the Bitcoin blockchain started as result. To avoid this, the Bitcoin Core developers have alerted everyone who is running on software older than 0.9.5 to upgrade to 0.10.2. See below for ...
ZeroTurnaround lands $5 million in Series B funding to ease development and testing woes
Developer productivity tool vendor ZeroTurnaround USA, Inc. announced today that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures alongside Western Technology Investment. This brings the total amount of funding since the company’s founding in 2007 to $15 million. “We are passionate about taking away the frustrations and time draining ...
Spyware vendor Hacking Team hacked, 400GB of nefarious data leaked
Hacking Team is an Italian company specializing in surveillance software who have just learned the hard way what it’s like when the tables are turned. Sunday, the company became the victims of a hack from unknown attackers who have released 400GB of data via a Torrent claimed to be from Hacking Team’s dark, private vaults. ...
FullDive VR headset for the masses turns your smartphone into a virtual viewport
The world of Virtual Reality (VR) development is currently dominated by headsets that run their own hardware such as Oculus Rift and Sony Corporation’s Project Morpheus. This makes headsets powerful, but expensive. The alternative is to use already-existing hardware such as smartphones. California-based startup FullDive Inc. hopes add a cheaper everyday alternative to the VR ...
Twitch E3 viewership stats: Star Wars Battlefront brings in the viewers
Earlier this week, Twitch released an infographic showing that the recent Twitch E3 coverage more than doubled the peak concurrent viewership to 840,000 from 400,000 last year. Part of this potentially in part because Twitch began allowing livestreamers on its platform to co-stream E3 press events. To get a better insight into what the viewership ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 1: Kraken opens in Canada, Coinbase looks to Australia, itBit and Call Levels, BitTorrent loves BTC
This week brings a lot of fintech news to the Bitcoin space with exchanges expanding, getting venture capital, and linking up with financial services. Kraken is growing and has officially launched in Canada; Coinbase announced an investment from Reventure, a major Australian VC firm; and itBit Trust Company LLC partnered with Call Levels Pte. Ltd., ...