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 August 20: BTC-e market price ‘flash crash’, blockchain API news from Coinbase, Block.io, and Chain

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week, Monday saw the bitcoin market value experience an odd dip known as a “flash crash” when market price fell almost 12 percent. Coinbase has acquired the talent behind blockchain explorer Blockr.io; and, entirely separately, Block.io just launched a new developer-centric …

EnterpriseDB seeks to bridge structured and unstructured data with free PostgreSQL AWS dev kit

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

EnterpriseDB Corporation has announced the release of a new suite of developer tools for Amazon Web Services that will enable the next generation of Web 2.0 applications built atop the NoSQL capabilities with the open-source database PostgreSQL. This new dev environment, the …

Coinbase grows Bitcoin talent and tools with acquisition of Blockr.io

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Coinbase, Bitcoin wallet and merchant payment processing company, just publicized another talent acquisition today with the announcement of the buy of blockchain explorer Blockr.io. As part of the acquisition two talented engineers from Blockr.io will join the Coinbase team: software engineer Sašo Matejina …

Performance trends thrive in Big Data DevOps | HP Vertica event highlights

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Modern business produces data from everything it does, and a great deal of that data arises in forms that normal, everyday databases do not handle very well. The result is that much of that data is dismissed or lost into the ether …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 13: Blockchain exceeds 2 million users, ChangeTip expands social networks, Britain and regulation, and a Chinese mining operation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Blockchain’s wallet service exceeded two million users this week, showing a clear continuing interest in Bitcoin. Tipping in bitcoin has extended beyond Reddit bots and into social media in general as ChangeTip expands out into YouTube, G+, and Twitter. Britain could be …

Splunk adds real-time streaming capture of over-the-wire data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Splunk, Inc. today announced the general availability of the Splunk App for Stream—a new software-based approach to capturing real-time streaming wire data directly from the network. Wire data is information captured by the network as sent by applications. Splunk App for Stream …

Blockchain bitcoin wallet two millionth user signals ever-increasing adoption

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Today, Blockchain.info proudly announced it has surpassed two million wallet users. This makes Blockchain the first in the industry to pass this milestone. In late October 2013, Blockchain.info hit 500,000 users; then January this year Blockchain.info announced one million wallet users. A …

Google Hangouts will get a lot smarter with the aquisition of Emu

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Google just enhanced its AI stable with the acquisition of Emu, a texting app with a built in artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant allows users to schedule lunches, share location, and set reminders without needing to go through the usual rigmarole of …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 6th: Thomson Reuters Eikon adds Bitcoin to index, Overstock.com to pay bonuses in BTC, Wikipedia and Twitch to accept bitcoin payments

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Step aside Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters Eikon is adding Bitcoin to its market index—and citing popular customer demand as well as expanded interest in the cryptocurrency as reasons why. This last week, Overstock.com also consolidated its Bitcoin-friendly position when its CEO mentioned expanding …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 20: BTC-e market price ‘flash crash’, blockchain API news from Coinbase, Block.io, and Chain

EnterpriseDB seeks to bridge structured and unstructured data with free PostgreSQL AWS dev kit

Coinbase grows Bitcoin talent and tools with acquisition of Blockr.io

Performance trends thrive in Big Data DevOps | HP Vertica event highlights

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 13: Blockchain exceeds 2 million users, ChangeTip expands social networks, Britain and regulation, and a Chinese mining operation

Splunk adds real-time streaming capture of over-the-wire data

Blockchain bitcoin wallet two millionth user signals ever-increasing adoption

Google Hangouts will get a lot smarter with the aquisition of Emu

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 6th: Thomson Reuters Eikon adds Bitcoin to index, Overstock.com to pay bonuses in BTC, Wikipedia and Twitch to accept bitcoin payments

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