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Big Data’s current ‘innovation cycle’ leading the DevOps curve #theCUBE #BigDataSV
Andre M. Bosivert recently spoke in theCUBE with Dave Vellante and John Furrier about innovations springing up in the Big Data circuit and industry. Much of the discussion centered around the culture, technology, and leadership as seen surrounding big data on a high level, but there’s a lot of spaces that this innovation has affected ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 February 12: Bitcoin-wide transaction malleability attack, Apple blocks bitcoin wallets, Fiverr accepts BTC, and more
Mad drama has once again hit the Bitcoin community as news—both good and bad—continues to stack up. This week’s attention saw Apple drop Blockchain.info’s web-wallet from their app store citing “an unresolved issue” sparking a massive controversy and even destroyed iPhones (including one shot with a rifle at long range.) Fiverr partnered with BitPay to ...
Transaction ID malleability attack spreads to Bitcoin-wide DDoS attempt
It all started with such humble beginnings: when MtGox blamed the Bitcoin protocol for their own woes of poorly implemented code. Then someone decided to use what had been harassing MtGox network-wide and exchanges across the Bitcoin industry itself started checking their own code. The attack takes advantage of a characteristic of the Bitcoin protocol ...
MtGox blames troubles on the Bitcoin protocol, Core developers beg to differ
Over the weekend MtGox went offline for several hours and it took the noted bitcoin exchange almost a day and a half to reach out to customers with a press release explaining what happened. This has followed an announcement from MtGox that it had halted all bitcoin withdrawals from the site. This news has since ...
The fall of MtGox: MtGox down for hours may herald the end of an era
Reports are flooding in that MtGox has been down for several hours. This comes on the heels of an announcement by the Bitcoin exchange that bitcoin transfers out of the exchange had been frozen. As this news hit the market, BTC market price began to plummet, falling from $810 and down to $684. People unable ...
Ask DevOps: The game industry is turning to the IBM SoftLayer cloud environment
Since the launch of the first Atari game Pong in 1972, video game industry has experienced tremendous transformation. Today, the cloud is the origin of a new revolution in the virtual battlefield. Millions of players around the world is playing games via cloud in real time on a multitude of devices. Due to the nature ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 February 5th: BitTag for retail, BTC China back in the game, USPS looks into cryptocurrency exchange
The Bitcoin community is still processing the New York Department of Financial Services hearings from last week but there’s a still a lot of other news running around the media that’s worth mentioning. Right now, an interesting use of wireless technology for retail to allow mobile payments in bitcoins is on display in London that ...
The plight of gaming networks and the threat of DDoS on the modern Internet
It’s the evening and numerous video game players are getting home from work and school–but when they try to log into their favorite game but in this scenario they can’t because the servers are down. Not because of a configuration error, or an employee accidentally flipping the wrong switch, it’s because some jerk on the ...
Bitcoin Weekly, January 29, 2014: TigerDirect on board, CEO of BitInstant arrested, Antonopoulos joins Blockchain.info
As far as weeks go, this one held a great deal of drama and interest for the Bitcoin community. TigerDirect.com became the first major retailer to use BitPay to process bitcoins (in the wake of Overstock.com going with Coinbase); Blockchain.info nabbed Andreas Antonopoulos as Cheif Security Officer, increasing their stake and presence in the Bitcoin ...
Google just might be exploring Bitcoin integration plans
As the de facto largest search engine and one of the juggernauts of Internet service innovation, when Google speaks everyone tends to listen. And for the Bitcoin community when Google execs and project even suggest the possibility of Google looking into Bitcoin it’s a very big thing. Thus, when Jarar Malik made a post on ...