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Bitcoin Weekly 2014 Oct 8: Gavin Anderesen on Bitcoin scalability, Blockchain receives $30m, Bill Gates, the BearWhale is dead
The news from this week contains a mixture of the usual Bitcoin expectations from developers speaking up, to technologists speaking out, and funding rounds coming to important outfits. Gavin Anderseen, best known as a Bitcoin core developer, has spoken up about needed changes to the Bitcoin block chain to address issues of scalability in a ...
Splunk MINT makes a home for mobile data with enterprise and DevOps analytics
As more businesses extend reach into the mobile realm, it is becoming ever more important to be able to instrument and gather data from mobile applications. To ease this form of instrumentation, Splunk Inc. announced today the general availability of Splunk MINT Express and Splunk MINT Enterprise (beta). Splunk MINT Express is a cloud service ...
Splunk Enterprise 6.2 woos enterprise and business users with new version
Splunk Inc. announced today the release of the newest version of its real-time operational intelligence platform Splunk Enterprise 6.2, which comes with a number improvements that enhance enterprise-level capabilities. Splunk Enterprise 6.2 focuses on scalability and stability, with marked increases over previous versions, as well as greater accessibility for business users. This release shows a ...
How long would it take to mine Bitcoin by hand?
Ever wonder how long it would take to mine a block into the Bitcoin blockchain by hand? Well, wonder no longer because blogger Ken Shirriff has done the work for you with a pencil and paper. In an article entitled “Mining bitcoin with pencil and paper,” Shirriff provides a thorough explanation of what a lot of bitcoin ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 1: Circle exits beta, Square plans POS system for BTC, Reddit alt-coin IPO, OpenBazaar 2.0
This week Circle gets the center ring after coming out of its lengthy closed beta to throw open its doors to the unwashed masses. The company hopes to provide another portal for consumers to enter into the bitcoin economy and does so with easy purchase of bitcoins via bank account or credit card. Last week, ...
Circle out of beta, opens up to international audience
Circle, a Bitcoin wallet and payment service, has been a very long time in coming and has carried with it a great deal of hype. The seemingly secretive service went through a recent closed-beta round where invites where at a premium; now the service has come out of beta and is now available to the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 September 24: Enter the dragon—PayPal partners with BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin
This week, PayPal signing on with BitPay, Coinbase, and GoCoin really takes the cake as it paints an interesting future for the mass adoption of Bitcoin. While the PayPal partnership does not mean that PayPal users will receive or store bitcoins, it does mean that merchants who use PayPal can allow their customers to pay ...
BitPay announces groundbreaking Bitcoin payment partnership with PayPal
BitPay just sealed community rumors and speculation today with an announcement that the Bitcoin processing company is partnering with PayPal. BitPay posted about the first step of the partnership on its blog, and that step has been to integrate with PayPal’s Payments Hub. Merchants using the PayPal Payments Hub can now create a BitPay merchant account and ...
Puppet Labs gives the reins to DevOps with enhanced server and tools
This morning Puppet Labs unveiled a new features its DevOps automation software and a constellation of new company initiatives during PuppetConf 2014. The major updates to the Puppet open source and commercial platforms includes an all-new Puppet Apps platform, new management and reporting capabilities, and a major update to the Puppet language. Puppet Labs CEO ...
Is the Alibaba IPO why Bitcoin’s market price is dropping?
Today Alibaba Group Holding Limited went public with an IPO in the United States priced at $68, raising $21.8 billion for the company and investors. According to The Wall Street Journal, this makes Alibaba the biggest U.S. IPO in history. How is Alibaba related to Bitcoin? As a holding group, the Alibaba Group represents a ...