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

BitPay hacked for $1.8 million in bitcoin during December 2014

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Court documents filed on September 15 in a federal court in Atlanta, GA have revealed that Atlanta-based BitPay, Inc. was hacked to the tune of 5,000 bitcoins (approximately $1.8 million) in December of 2014. As a major financial services provider in the …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 16: Cryptocurrency academic journal Ledger, BlockTrail wallet, CardCash and BitPay, blockchain fintech

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

This week, Bitcoin and the blockchain, the underlying technology that runs Bitcoin, received some academic attention with the first Bitcoin-related scholarly journal from the University of Pittsburgh named the Ledger. The blockchain itself continues to keep the interest of financial institutions as an economic technology and …

Say goodbye to Project Morpheus and hello PlayStation VR

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Sony Corporation’s virtual reality headset Project Morpheus is no more. The global gaming and hardware company has rebranded its VR headset, set to launch sometime in 2016, to PlayStation VR. Sony announced the change at the Tokyo Game Show this morning in …

The University of Pittsburgh is now home to Ledger: the first Bitcoin-only academic journal

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

The world of Bitcoin is an extremely broad realm filled with interests that intersect mathematics, cryptography, engineering, computer programming, law, finance and economics. Any of these subjects alone could lead a doctoral thesis so it’s no surprise that eventually an academic journal …

Star Trek Online, Neverwinter Online struck by DDoS attacks twice in one day [UPDATED]

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Over the weekend video gamers who enjoy exploring the galaxy in Star Trek Online and fighting orcs with swords in Neverwinter Online found themselves briefly unable to do so. Some players described lag spiking so high that characters began “rubber banding”–or repeatedly …

BlockTrail launches secure multi-signature Bitcoin wallet service

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Amsterdam-based BlockTrail B.V. is stretching its virtual legs and launching a brand new multiplatform Bitcoin wallet service for iOS, Android, and the web. The service, which has been in the Bitcoin industry since 2014, started originally with a blockchain explorer — a service …

Tor anonymity network benefits from .onion added as special-use domain name

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

No, the .onion top level domain (TLD) is not about parody news, it’s a way of accessing websites that run on the Tor (the onion router) network. The Tor network is an Internet fixture that provides anonymity to users by bouncing …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 9: Paymium seed funding, BitPay proposes ‘Bitcoin Association,’ ZeroNet, Coinkite, and UBS

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Numerous startups and other Bitcoin businesses are making inroads and receiving capital funding this week. Amid them Bitcoin exchange and financial services company Paymium received $1.2 million (as 1 million EUR), and registration-less cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift revived $1.6 million in funding. Cloud …

Raspberry Pi 7-inch touch display on sale for $60

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

The official Raspberry Pi touch display is on sale now for $60 meaning that makers and developers with an interesting in hardware will have something to play with on the cheap today. The Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer made by the …

Pantheon announces enterprise solution for Drupal and WordPress web content management

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Pantheon (product of Pantheon Systems, Inc.) is one of the world’s largest website management platform for Drupal and WordPress and it provides this management with app delivery using containerization. Today, many developer and operations teams are aware of the usefulness of virtual …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

BitPay hacked for $1.8 million in bitcoin during December 2014

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 16: Cryptocurrency academic journal Ledger, BlockTrail wallet, CardCash and BitPay, blockchain fintech

Say goodbye to Project Morpheus and hello PlayStation VR

The University of Pittsburgh is now home to Ledger: the first Bitcoin-only academic journal

Star Trek Online, Neverwinter Online struck by DDoS attacks twice in one day [UPDATED]

BlockTrail launches secure multi-signature Bitcoin wallet service

Tor anonymity network benefits from .onion added as special-use domain name

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 9: Paymium seed funding, BitPay proposes ‘Bitcoin Association,’ ZeroNet, Coinkite, and UBS

Raspberry Pi 7-inch touch display on sale for $60

Pantheon announces enterprise solution for Drupal and WordPress web content management

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