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 2014 September 10: eBay’s Braintree partners with Coinbase, Satoshi Nakamoto email hack, and Gem.co API early access

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week the stand-out news for Bitcoin is still eBay Inc. subsidiary Braintree opening up its service to allow merchants to take BTC payments via Coinbase. The move presents a significant new milestone in Bitcoin mainstream adoption and a great deal of …

EBay payments unit will drive mainstream acceptance for Bitcoin

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

EBay Inc., owner of famous payment processing platform PayPal, is finally getting into Bitcoin. Monday at TechCrunch Disrupt, eBay announced that Braintree, the company’s developer-centric payment processing subsidiary, would be experimenting with accepting the digital currency over the “coming months.” According to …

Chef 12 goes freemium with single open source codebase and premium enterprise features

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Chef, the company behind the powerful IT automation software for DevOps with the same name, has announced a new freemium business model that merges the software’s existing open source codebase with premium services built for enterprise clients. This change comes in conjunction …

BitPay partners with Alternet Payment Systems for global reach of payment processing

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

BitPay today announced a strategic partnership with Alternet Payment Systems, Inc. to facilitate worldwide business processing of bitcoin. Alternet Payment Solutions, a subsidiary of APS, Inc., will be working with BitPay to launch its global payment processing business. As Alternet has a …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 September 3: Coin Academy launches, Apache Foundation accepts Bitcoin donations, Charlie Shrem pleads guilty, Celebgate, and more

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin news this week has taken a turn for the strange with connections to a high profile leak of nude photos of celebrities (albeit obliquely). Charlie Shrem, former CEO of BitInstant, will be pleading guilty to a lesser charge on Thursday stemming …

Meet the new HTML5 browser for Raspberry Pi: Epiphany

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The hobbyist small-factor computer Raspberry Pi is getting a new web browser based on Epiphany (aka GNOME Web.) This development delivers a modern HTML5-capable browser and it is already available and easily installed. The Raspberry Pi is a hobby-board useful for rapidly …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 28: Bitcoin trade group forms digital currency PAC, Coinbase gets insured, and merchants see promise in Bitcoin’s future

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week, the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a relative newcomer on the scene, announced registration to form a PAC to increase the lobbying power of Bitcoin-related interests in the US political space. Reuters is running an article talking about big merchants such …

Twitch Twilight Zone: How Google vs Amazon would use Twitch data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The news just came down that Amazon.com, Inc. will be buying Twitch for $970 million. This news comes right after rumors of a one billion dollar deal from Google to buy the video game live streaming website. Google’s offer led to a …

DevOps synchronizing files without the cloud with BitTorrent Sync 1.4

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Today BitTorrent, Inc. announced BitTorrent Sync 1.4, a distributed peer-to-peer file synchronization platform that allows for large scale file sharing without the need for a central or cloud server. The file sharing platform is still in beta, but is free to download …

Sony PlayStation Network, other gaming networks blasted with DDoS attacks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Over the weekend the PlayStation Network, Microsoft’s Xbox Live, Blizzard’s Battle.net, and Grinding Gears Games reported massive network disruptions caused by large scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks occurred around the same time that a bomb threat was made …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 September 10: eBay’s Braintree partners with Coinbase, Satoshi Nakamoto email hack, and Gem.co API early access

EBay payments unit will drive mainstream acceptance for Bitcoin

Chef 12 goes freemium with single open source codebase and premium enterprise features

BitPay partners with Alternet Payment Systems for global reach of payment processing

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 September 3: Coin Academy launches, Apache Foundation accepts Bitcoin donations, Charlie Shrem pleads guilty, Celebgate, and more

Meet the new HTML5 browser for Raspberry Pi: Epiphany

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 28: Bitcoin trade group forms digital currency PAC, Coinbase gets insured, and merchants see promise in Bitcoin’s future

Twitch Twilight Zone: How Google vs Amazon would use Twitch data

DevOps synchronizing files without the cloud with BitTorrent Sync 1.4

Sony PlayStation Network, other gaming networks blasted with DDoS attacks

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