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The Bitcoin Gambling Diaspora

"Bitcoin gambling is growing to be much more than just SatoshiDice. Of couse, many old-time gambling sites like BitZino and Seals with Clubs have been providing alternatives to SatoshiDice all along, but in the opening months of 2013 the massive success of Erik Voorhees’ juggernaut has prompted dozens of people to come up with alternatives. We now have the roulette-style wheel games SatoshiCircle and most recently BitcoinSpin, the minefield Satoshi Karoshi, the SatoshiDice clone SuzukiDice offering half the fees of the original, and the lottery BitMillions, and new sites are opening practically every week." Continue reading →

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Bitcoin suitcase eats your pocket change, spits out digital currency

"A hacker called Garbage was milling around outside of the Rio convention center showing off the invention to fellow Bitcoin enthusiasts. 'Most people know about Bitcoin, but they don't have it,' he said, hailing from Kalamazoo, Michigan with his group TwoSixNine, which built the device for around $250 using a Raspberry Pi microcomputer and a portable 4G modem. It takes in your spare change through a metal coin slot, checks the current exchange rate on Bitcoin trading post Mt. Gox, and prints out a QR code on receipt paper, which contains the cryptographic hash you can use to redeem your digital gold nugget." Continue reading →

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Jim Rogers: “Nothing Good In India”

"If you know Jim's story, you probably know that this man was born to be one of the greatest investors of all time. Selling peanuts at the age of five to getting a job in Wall Street at the age of 22 to starting his first index fund with George Soros at the age of 31, Jim has had a meteoric rise in the investing world. And what's even more interesting about him is that he likes to break rules as an investor. He is famous for his contrarian calls and controversial ideas. In fact, he proved it again in our interview, when he went ahead with his latest commentary on the Indian economy, and said: 'I am short India.'" Continue reading →

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Jim Rogers: Higher Education And Finance Are Getting The Ax

"We finally caught up with Jim Rogers to discuss his new book Street Smarts. In it he discusses not only the shift of wealth from West to East, but also the complete restructuring of society. Higher education will be totally revamped. Ivy league schools will be revised and will be a shadow of their former selves. Same thing with Wall Street. That’s why younger people need to quickly re-evaluate their options and seek training in the right specialties, such as mining, petroleum and other scientific and agricultural specialties." Continue reading →

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Defiant nuns and monks refuse to give up Kentucky land for gas pipeline

"Two Kentucky Catholic religious orders that collectively own more than 3,000 acres of historic farmland are refusing to give up portions of their lands for a proposed natural-gas pipeline that would channel millions of gallons of pressurized, highly flammable natural-gas liquids through the area. The nuns of the Sisters of Loretto and the monks of the Abbey of Gethsemani have denied surveyors permission to survey the land ahead of the pipeline project and say that they have no interest in helping it along. 'We’ve been on this property since 1824,' said Sister Maria Visse. 'We feel entrusted with this (land). It’s a gift. It’s not a commodity.'" Continue reading →

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The Future of Weed: HIGH COUNTRY

"In HIGH COUNTRY, Motherboard heads to Denver--ground zero for cannabis legalization, and home to a booming tech sector in what could be called the SIlicon Valley of weed--to inhale the newest high-tech highs. We visit the key players scaling up this new green tech, wrap our heads around all the money to be made, crack open the confusing science of America's No. 1 cash crop, and smoke dabs." Continue reading →

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Free State Project Demands Apology For “Domestic Terrorism” Claims In Tank Grant Application

"As president of the Free State Project ('FSP'), a NH-based non-profit organization with the sole mission of attracting 20,000 pro-freedom people to the Granite State, I am alarmed and appalled at the cleverly worded insinuation that the FSP is a domestic terrorist threat, or that 'Free Staters' are 'active and present daily challenges' to the Concord Police Department. Individuals who sign up for the FSP generally subscribe to an ethical stance which asserts that 'aggression' is inherently illegitimate. Sadly, the DHS grant application only came to light through an ACLU public records request, and not as a result of transparent governance." Continue reading →

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The First Commercial 3D Printed Metal Gun Part

"Neal Brace, founder of Sintercore LLC and a former US Marine infantryman, has developed the world’s first commercially available 3D printed firearm accessory. What sets Sintercore’s component apart from previous 3D printed firearm designs is that it was manufactured using direct metal laser sintering technology, rather than a plastic 3D printer. To ensure that their product is safe, Sintercore has designed their muzzle brake to be printed in Inconel, a nickel-chromium super alloy that’s traditionally reserved for use in extreme environments like gas turbine blades, supercharger rotors, and F1 and NASCAR exhaust systems." Continue reading →

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