The US Marshals Service is auctioning off 50,000 stolen bitcoin that they looted from Ross Ulbricht. http://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2014/dpr-bitcoins/ Here’s a screenshot of the web page where
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US Marshal Shuts Down Cynic.me for Security Theatre
So Deputy United States Marshal Criminal Investigator Maxime Vales (or one of his criminal cohorts) violated the TERM & CONDITIONS for the use of this
Poison in Alternative Media: The Real News and Reason TV
The alternative media delivers a far more accurate and better picture about what is going on in the world, but there are times when they
Foreign Policy’s Power Map
It is far from rare to see total BS in the media, but the following is a spectacularly skewed list. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/29/the_500_most_powerful_people_in_the_world For the sake of
Dear Mr. Paul Krugman, About Bitcoin…
Dear Mr. Paul Krugman, I read your recent piece about Adam Smith and bitcoin. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/adam-smith-hates-bitcoin/ Once again, it seems all roads in economics come down
Frackin’ Reserve! – A Fractional Reserve Banking Simulator
To help explain what the effects of fractional reserve banking are, and to illustrate just how evil it is, I’ve written a simple program that
SOPA & PIPA are Anti-Free Speech
Let’s get things straight. SOPA and PIPA are NOT about piracy. They are against suppressing free speech. They are tools for a totalitarian/authoritarian government to
1 Reason to Hate the Web
Maybe 10 reasons would sound sexier, but I’ve just got 1 today. Stupidly high memory usage. That’s it. Just that. Here’s an example: All
