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

City of Paradigm: The business of artificial intelligence

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Below is an excerpt from Kyt Dotson’s novel City of Paradigm, a science fiction tale about a fictional 21st century city situated somewhere in California. Each City of Paradigm column is two parts: an excerpt from the novel and an editorial describing …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 23: Vault of Satoshi proof-of-solvency audit, TEDx virtual currencies are the future, Bitcoin side-chains, and happy Easter BTC

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

More exchanges are hitching their wagon to the trust of the community in the wake of the insolvency of MtGox. Now Vault of Satoshi has submitted to a proof-of-solvency audit program to show users that the wallets hold what they say they …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 16: Upgrade to fix Heartbleed bug, Bitcoin value exceeds $500, Amazon not interested in BTC, Reddit’s /r/technology rejecting ‘Bitcoin’ headlines

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

With last week’s Heartbleed bug still bright in the minds of Internet users, if you run a Bitcoin client it is a good time for you to immediately upgrade to 0.9.1 if you have not already. As fears of a crackdown from …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 9: The Heartbleed bug edition

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

For the web this week has been a huge gust of security news after an exploit discovered in a popular SSL encryption library–responsible for encrypting much of the web’s traffic–became well known. Due to the security-conscious nature of the Bitcoin community (and …

‘Heartbleed’ SSL vulnerability causing heartburn for Bitcoin web services

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

A major security flaw recently discovered in a popular library for the SSL protocol—the cryptographic underpinning of a bulk of all web transactions—has been discovered that could affect a large number of bitcoin services. The two year old flaw, named “Heartbleed” affects …

The San Jose Quakes to become the next sports team to accept Bitcoin

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The San Jose Earthquakes will be accepting bitcoin with the upcoming soccer season. This makes the Quakes the second professional sports team to take bitcoin as a payment option—following the Sacremento Kings (an NBA team) who announced that March 1st would mark …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 2: Square Market opens up to Bitcoin, Circle.com $17m investment and service announcement, Ulbright’s lawyer seeks reprieve, Chinese regulation rumors

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Square, noted ecommerce processor and service, has begun giving merchants the options to accept bitcoins with their Square Market service. Circle.com just announced a $17 million funding round alongside the launch of their first two products, an exchange and a wallet service, …

Amazon races into desktop virtualization with general availability of WorkSpaces

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Amazon WorkSpaces, announced in November 2013 and only accessible to a small group of selected users, is now available to the public. The AWS customers can purchase a subscription at a price between 35 and 75 dollars a month to create and …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 March 26: IRS to tax bitcoins as property, Kraken exchange implements reserves audit, MtGox found 200k missing coins

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

“Bitcoins will be taxed as property, not currency,” the IRS has made official in a policy statement when it comes to bitcoins and Federal taxes. No doubt this change will generate a very interesting media storm. Bitcoin exchange Kraken has submitted to …

City of Paradigm: The Big Data DevOps of customers and user experience

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

City of Paradigm: The business of artificial intelligence

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 23: Vault of Satoshi proof-of-solvency audit, TEDx virtual currencies are the future, Bitcoin side-chains, and happy Easter BTC

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 16: Upgrade to fix Heartbleed bug, Bitcoin value exceeds $500, Amazon not interested in BTC, Reddit’s /r/technology rejecting ‘Bitcoin’ headlines

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 9: The Heartbleed bug edition

‘Heartbleed’ SSL vulnerability causing heartburn for Bitcoin web services

The San Jose Quakes to become the next sports team to accept Bitcoin

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 2: Square Market opens up to Bitcoin, Circle.com $17m investment and service announcement, Ulbright’s lawyer seeks reprieve, Chinese regulation rumors

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 March 26: IRS to tax bitcoins as property, Kraken exchange implements reserves audit, MtGox found 200k missing coins

City of Paradigm: The Big Data DevOps of customers and user experience

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