Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 18: Bitcoin exchanges get hacked and close, Porn.com 5% BTC sales, Bitcoin Core 0.10.0

By Kyt Dotson Feb 18, 2015

This week starts with grim news for the Bitcoin exchange market space with 2015 seeing over five exchanges suspending or shuttering services, and several of them after suffering security compromises. Amid the exchanges suspending…

Lizard Squad is back: Xbox Live and Daybreak Games Company face DDoS battering

By Kyt Dotson Feb 17, 2015

The great Christmas Day siege of Xbox and PlayStation doesn’t seem to be enough for notorious Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad who have continued their campaign of denial of service attacks against gaming companies.…

Multiple Bitcoin exchanges go offline over weekend, several hacked: BTER.com, Exco.in, HitBTC

By Kyt Dotson Feb 16, 2015

Over the past week several Bitcoin exchange services suffered time offline. BTER.com reported a loss of 7170 BTC due to a hack, complaints report that HitBTC is experiencing a service interruption, and Exco.in suspended…

Blizzard’s virtual pet goat raises $1.9 million for Ebola charity

By Kyt Dotson Feb 12, 2015

During December 2014, World of Warcraft players raised $1.9 million by buying a special charity pet in game. Agri, a $10 blue goat stylized after the draenei race from the game, went on sale December…

Meet Spot: Boston Dynamics’s kickable robot dog

By Kyt Dotson Feb 11, 2015

The ongoing work by Boston Dynamics, a leading engineering and robotics design company owned by Google Inc., on our future robot overlords continues apace. In a video released by the company, robots mimicking uncanny,…

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 11: How did The Silk Road Trial change perception of Bitcoin?

By Kyt Dotson Feb 11, 2015

Last week saw the end of the trial of Ross Ulbricht, accused of being the proprietor of The Silk Road under the romantic moniker of the Dread Pirate Roberts. Bitcoin featured in the trial…

Screenshots coming soon to Xbox One, says Xbox head honcho

By Kyt Dotson Feb 10, 2015

Xbox head Phil Spencer at Microsoft teased a new capability for Xbox One yesterday on Twitter, announcing “Nice to finally be doing this on my Xbox One dev kit.” The tweet came along with…

After closure Massively respawns as MassivelyOP and heads to Kickstarter

By Kyt Dotson Feb 6, 2015

The news that AOL Inc. was closing down the gaming blog Joystiq and with it shuttering Massively hit the online gaming community hard. The placement of enthusiast gaming press has been a go-to for…

Neverwinter Online beta for Xbox One begins today

By Kyt Dotson Feb 5, 2015

Today owners of the Xbox One will be able to visit the besieged stronghold city of Neverwinter in Cryptic Studio’s free-to-play massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) Neverwinter Online. The beta for the…

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 4: Jagex Games Studio gets bitcoin, Google Now Coinbase integration, ZenMiner shutdown

By Kyt Dotson Feb 4, 2015

This week say another interesting development in the gaming and bitcoin relationship sector when BitPay partnered with a MMO game developer’s payment processor. RuneScape players who use bitcoin will have an interesting morning. Google…

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Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 18: Bitcoin exchanges get hacked and close, Porn.com 5% BTC sales, Bitcoin Core 0.10.0

Lizard Squad is back: Xbox Live and Daybreak Games Company face DDoS battering

Multiple Bitcoin exchanges go offline over weekend, several hacked: BTER.com, Exco.in, HitBTC

Blizzard’s virtual pet goat raises $1.9 million for Ebola charity

Meet Spot: Boston Dynamics’s kickable robot dog

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 11: How did The Silk Road Trial change perception of Bitcoin?

After closure Massively respawns as MassivelyOP and heads to Kickstarter

Neverwinter Online beta for Xbox One begins today

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 4: Jagex Games Studio gets bitcoin, Google Now Coinbase integration, ZenMiner shutdown

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