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

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 April 15: Bitcoin Foundation Reddit AMA, MIT and Bitcoin protocol development, LiveJournal accepts BTC payments

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

The Bitcoin Foundation’s past controversy involving money and transparency has grown into the appointment of a new Executive Director, Bruce Fenton, who went to Reddit to seek the community’s thoughts. In light of these past events, MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito …

Tether teams up with GoCoin to give merchants free Bitcoin payment processing

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Tether, a payment service that uses a bitcoin-backend to settle payments without having to use a bank, just announced integration with Bitcoin merchant processor GoCoin. Merchants using GoCoin who transact in Bitcoin, Litecoin, or Dogecoin can instead opt to use Tether’s system. GoCoin, …

Pre-ordering Guide for 2015: How and where to get the newest games

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Not willing to wait for that new game to come out and you want it day one or midnight of launch day? Pre-ordering can mean the difference between standing in line for hours or just sitting on the couch—especially in the case …

Xbox Live experiences downtime, hacker group claims responsibility

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Upon waking this morning many Xbox gamers found themselves unable to log-in, starting at approximately 6am EDT today. Microsoft is working on the problem and says that it has restored most of the systems, but account log-in issues may still pervade the …

DDoS attack on GitHub evidence for the Great Cannon of China

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

China is already well known for its nation-wide Internet filtering software dubbed The Great Firewall of China, but what is only coming to light is that China also may have a Great Cannon. According to a report posted on CitizenLab the Great …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 April 8: Bitcoin Foundation ‘effectively bankrupt’, Coinapult restores services, Rand Paul bitcoin donations, Buttercoin closure

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Over the weekend it became known that The Bitcoin Foundation, a well-known U.S.-based institution dedicated to evangelizing bitcoin and funding a few bitcoin core developers, is strapped for cash. This news came with part and parcel with some drama over the funding …

Bitcoin Foundation is out of cash, considers restructuring plans

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

The Bitcoin Foundation, a U.S. outfit consisting of bitcoin luminaries organized to help promote the cryptocurrency, has seen a great deal of controversy lately and the most recent rumors involve documents and statements floating around the Internet suggesting that the foundation is …

Microsoft halts production of Kinect for Windows, focuses on USB adapter

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corporation has announced that the company will discontinue the standalone developer’s kit Kinect for Windows v2 sensor and instead intends to consolidate with the sensor that ships with Xbox One and a USB-enabled Kinect Adapter for PC. According to Microsoft, the …

Align Commerce launches beta B2B global payments system using the Bitcoin blockchain

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

International payments cost companies a great deal of money and Bitcoin-related startup Align Commerce wants to change that. According to Marwan Forzley, CEO and Founder of Align Commerce, “businesses spend over $50 billion on wire and foreign exchange fees,” and his startup …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 April 15: Bitcoin Foundation Reddit AMA, MIT and Bitcoin protocol development, LiveJournal accepts BTC payments

Tether teams up with GoCoin to give merchants free Bitcoin payment processing

Pre-ordering Guide for 2015: How and where to get the newest games

Xbox Live experiences downtime, hacker group claims responsibility

DDoS attack on GitHub evidence for the Great Cannon of China

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 April 8: Bitcoin Foundation ‘effectively bankrupt’, Coinapult restores services, Rand Paul bitcoin donations, Buttercoin closure

Bitcoin Foundation is out of cash, considers restructuring plans

Microsoft halts production of Kinect for Windows, focuses on USB adapter

Align Commerce launches beta B2B global payments system using the Bitcoin blockchain

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