Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 20: Kraken aquires Coinsetter, Mike Hearn: “Bitcoin failed”, Cryptsy hacked, BitPay on Bitcoin 2015

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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 …

Bitcoin exchange Kraken to aquire New York-based Coinsetter and Canada-based Cavirtex

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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 …

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 14: DD4BC arrests, CoinDesk aquired by DCG, Eternity Wall for Blockchain messages and visualizing 2015 Core development

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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 Yearly 2015: A retrospective on an entire year of cryptocurrency (Part II)

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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 …

Bitcoin Yearly 2015: A retrospective on an entire year of cryptocurrency (Part I)

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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 …

Sony confirms more than 100 VR titles in development for PlayStation VR | #CES2016

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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 …

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 6: Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service additions, Isle of Man cryptocurrency, BTCC ignores DDoS ransom, Cryptsy trading shut down

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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 …

PlayStation Network offline, Sony is investigating

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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. …

Akamai: DDoS will expand attack scope on gaming and technology companies in 2016

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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 …

Nexusguard: 2016 will be the year of proactive, shared defense against DDoS

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

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 …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 20: Kraken aquires Coinsetter, Mike Hearn: “Bitcoin failed”, Cryptsy hacked, BitPay on Bitcoin 2015

Bitcoin exchange Kraken to aquire New York-based Coinsetter and Canada-based Cavirtex

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 14: DD4BC arrests, CoinDesk aquired by DCG, Eternity Wall for Blockchain messages and visualizing 2015 Core development

Bitcoin Yearly 2015: A retrospective on an entire year of cryptocurrency (Part II)

Bitcoin Yearly 2015: A retrospective on an entire year of cryptocurrency (Part I)

Sony confirms more than 100 VR titles in development for PlayStation VR | #CES2016

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 6: Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service additions, Isle of Man cryptocurrency, BTCC ignores DDoS ransom, Cryptsy trading shut down

PlayStation Network offline, Sony is investigating

Akamai: DDoS will expand attack scope on gaming and technology companies in 2016

Nexusguard: 2016 will be the year of proactive, shared defense against DDoS

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