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Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 6: Dish to accept Bitcoin, Coinsetter adds features, Voorhees settles with SEC over securities trading
Dish Network announced its intention to become the biggest company to start accepting bitcoins. Andreas Antonopoulos published a Bitcoin beginner’s guide on Boing Boing. Coinsetter is adding new features for customers and app developers. And Erik Voorhees of SatoshiDice has settled with the SEC over unregistered securities trading. Welcome to this Bitcoin Weekly. Read on ...
Apple turns up developer appeal with Swift programming language
On Monday, Apple announced a new programming language called Swift for iOS and OS X app development. As a language, it’s extremely similar to C and Objective-C with a couple exceptions. Apple’s mission with Swift is to provide easy coding, combined with security and efficiency as an iteration to Objective-C without straying too far from the ...
Betterment DevOps Profile: Development and the mobile vs. web experience
Betterment, developer of an online investment app, launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 with a web and mobile product directed towards consumers interested in managing their own money. Their road from a startup with an interesting idea to a powerful app set that includes DevOps, automated testing, and end-user support has been fraught with challenges. According ...
Google uses machine learning as data center efficiency workhorse
Google is putting machine learning to use to make its already mighty data centers even more efficient. With the help of neural networks and data analytics, Google hopes that a new datacenter project will allow the search giant to push power consumption down. The company outlined the project in a whitepaper (PDF) released Wednesday and ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 May 28: Bitstamp proof of reserves audit, major law firm accepting bitcoin, Overstock bitcoin sales reach $1.6m
The number of exchanges submitting to public proof of reserves audits increased this week with Bitstamp joining the trend. A major New York law firm, McLaughlin & Stern, LLP, has started accepting bitcoins. Ben Davenport of Facebook is joining Bitcoin security platform BitGo as co-founder. And Overstock has reached $1.6m in bitcoin sales. Bitstamp runs ...
Google Ingress soaring to new heights after over a year running
Google’s augmented reality game, Ingress, started small in November 2012 with a closed beta and went into open beta October 2013. And, since December 2013, Ingress has been fully available to the public. Much of 2013 and now part of 2014, has seen the game grow in complexity and popularity. With its initial announcement, Ingress ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 May 21: Circle debuts consumer product, Kryptokit returned to Chrome, UK Pirate Party, and Dogecoin NASCAR
After a long time waiting, enigmatic Bitcoin company Circle has showcased a consumer product and it’s an easy-to-use wallet. KryptoKit vanished from the Chrome Extension Store for 30 minutes on Tuesday–proving to be a glitch on Google’s part. The UK Pirate Party may get a chance for another member of Parliament with the help of ...
San Jose Earthquakes will accept Bitcoin starting May 25th
The San Jose Earthquakes Major League Soccer team made a quake of their own today in the media as mainstream outlets caught onto the team’s Bitcoin news. First reported by SiliconANGLE, the San Jose Quakes intend to start accepting Bitcoin for tickets, concessions, and merchandise on May 25th. Bloomberg ran a story this morning quoting ...
Red Hat OpenShift 2.1 announcement shows dedication to DevOps paradigm
Application delivery and platform is a very important component of any DevOps-enabling infrastructure and Red Hat is looking to make their OpenShift Enterprise PaaS platform the go-to for enterprise with the release of version 2.1. Announced today during the OpenStack Summit conference, Red Hat is making OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 publicly available for developers with a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 May 14: Doge Vault hacked, BFL and 300 FTC complaints, BitPay’s ground-breaking $30m investment
This week’s Bitcoin Weekly brings us news of Doge Vault being hacked with the bandits making away with potentially 111 million coins–the service has been offline since the heist. eBay’s CEO has shown some interest in Bitcoin’s future. Butterfly Labs is on the outs with almost 300 customers, if not more, who sent complaints to ...