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Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 29: Bitcoin sidechains, the Bits debate, identify scams and frauds, G+ Bitcoin community
This week in Bitcoin is still overshadowed by last week’s Bitcoin sidechains AMA by the authors of a vastly popular whitepaper on this technology that might fundamentally change how the Bitcoin protocol can be used. Scams can be fairly prevalent in the wild, wild west of BTC–even as it slowly gains mainstream adoption (or perhaps ...
CBT Nuggets cooks up Chef training videos to serve DevOps to IT pros
The world of DevOps is slowly filling to the brim with tools, each of which takes on a particular vertical of the whole DevOps experience—but as has been reported before, DevOps is a culture more than it is a single technology. As a result, to have a working DevOps team—much like any other team—the members ...
Bitcoin pegged sidechains whitepaper reveals new horizons for cryptocurrency
This last summer Adam Back, developer of the Bitcoin algorithm HashCash, and Austin Hill, founder anonymous networking and privacy technology company Zero-Knowledge Systems, teased the idea of Bitcoin sidechains: a mechanism for transferring Bitcoins to a separate-but-connected blockchain that can be used like an alt-currency but has its Proof of Work and value entangled with ...
Sumo Logic unveils Transaction Analysis component for its analytics platform
Sumo Logic, a machine data intelligence company based in California, today announced the general availability of Transaction Analytics as part of its analytics platform. This technology applies the concept of mining connections between transactions to take complex systems and provide patterns with context. As a data intelligence company, Sumo Logic hopes to provide customers a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 22: Gavin Andresen Reddit AMA, Bitcoin community vs. NYDFS BitLicense, and more
The current trends in the Bitcoin show that while progress is slow, it’s constantly building momentum. Last week, Andreas Antonopoulos went before the Canadian Senate and gave an amazing 2 hour talk, this week Gavin Andresen went to Reddit and gave amazing answers. The public comments period for the New York Department of Financial Services ...
The rise and fall of the Anonabox Kickstarter highlights demand for simple privacy
In a world where TV shows make it obvious that most personal communications on the Internet are hardly anonymous—anyone who watches Scorpion or Person of Interest probably has this sense. Many users may desire to return to a sense of simple security and privacy. But privacy often proves far from simple and most Internet users ...
OpenStack breaks open the floodgates for big data in the cloud with Juno
The OpenStack Foundation unveiled the Juno release of its popular open source cloud stack on October 16 marking its 10th major release. The project features a number of new improvements and advances including the Sahara Data Processing Service, full integration of Swift storage, Neutron networking IPv6 support, improved rescue mode for Nova, and multi-cloud federation ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 15: Bitcoin breaks $400, Antonopoulos speaks to Canadian Senate, Butterfly Labs vs. FTC
The Bitcoin market had an exciting week with the market value breaking over the $400 mark again–but it’s been hovering above and below the $400 band since that happened. Canada received an amazing talk from Andreas Antonopoulos, previous Chief Security Officer at Blockchain.info and author of “Mastering Bitcoin,” who spoke to the Canadian senate with ...
Apple Watch vs. Dick Tracy, The Jetsons & Pip-Boy 3000
The Apple Watch is out and there’s already comparisons being run against other products of a similar vein such as Galaxy Gear S, Sony Smartwatch 3, and the ASUS ZenWatch. It’s certainly been a few years of wearable watches—but how does the Apple Watch compare to its fictional precursors? Science fiction writers have had a ...
Big data is the smart tool for the evolving future of cyberdefense | #Splunkconf
There’s an old adage about technology that goes something like, “If you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door.” The flipside to this, especially in the world of cyberdefense, viruses, malware, and worms is that somewhere out there someone is building a superior mouse. The past decade of networked ...