Someone Just Bought $148 Million Worth Of Bitcoin
Someone just transacted $148 million worth of Bitcoin. That’s about 195,000 Bitcoins. We say transacted because there is no way of knowing whether any money actually changed hands. The Bitcoins were...
View ArticleBitcoin passes $1,000 mark for the first time, up over 62% in a week
Bitcoin hit a new milestone today, passing the $1,000 mark for the first time. The virtual currency is currently trading above the four-digit figure, with its highest at $1,030 on Mt. Gox, one of the...
View ArticleGet Ready to Pay More Online: Supremes Refuse to Hear Internet Tax Case
In another blow to the Constitution, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case by Amazon and Overstock.com challenging a law that requires online retailers to collect sales tax in states...
View ArticleNSA storing all your data for decades… on magnetic tape? Millions of years on...
… Tape is the oldest computer storage medium still in use. It was first put to work on a UNIVAC computer in 1951. But although tape sales have been falling since 2008 and dropped by 14% in 2012,...
View ArticleThe IRS And SEC Want To Snoop Through Your Email Without A Warrant; Don’t Let...
We’ve talked a lot about ECPA reform — which is the incredibly outdated “electronic communications privacy act” which actually makes sure that you have less privacy than other forms of communication....
View ArticleWell, Bitcoin is crashing
… It had to happen some time: Bitcoin is crashing. The price of the crypto-currency tumbled nearly 21 percent on Friday to $877.46 on trading site Mt. Gox and has fallen more than 29 percent since...
View ArticleWhy I just spent $170 on a few tubes of toothpaste
It is not commonly known that cavities in teeth can be healed. I figured it out ten years ago when I had ten cavities at one time. I haven’t had one since. One of my secret weapons lately has been a...
View ArticleThe FBI Seized All of TorMail’s Data and Is Using It to Catch Hackers
If you had any faith left in anonymous email services, now would be the time to let that go. New court documents show that in chasing down associates of Freedom Hosting, the FBI managed to download the...
View ArticleBlue Diamond ‘Worth Tens Of Millions’ Discovered
A massive diamond with a possible price tag of more than £36m has been discovered at a mine in South Africa. The 29.6 carat blue diamond, described as being “exceptional”, was dug up at the Cullinan...
View ArticleMonsanto’s Roundup: new deadly scam exposed
Roundup is the Monsanto herbicide that is touted as the cornerstone of GMO food crops. Monsanto claims these crops are genetically engineered to withstand heavy spraying of Roundup. There are several...
View ArticleEight Banker Suicides Mystery Deepens
… “RIP … What happened to all the promises and plans you made? What happened to your return to Toronto? I didn’t know you were that upset! I will miss you always,” remarked the friend. Junjie had...
View ArticleBitcoin near total collapse?
A major bitcoin exchange based in Japan has gone bust after secretly racking up catastrophic losses, a potentially fatal blow for the exotic new form of money. (Feb. 25, 2014) It was supposed to...
View ArticleSaddle Ridge Hoard: Buried gold coin stash worth $10,000,000
The coins were in uncirculated, mint condition, adding to their worth to collectors A California couple found a stash of gold coins buried on their property last year valued at as much as $10m (£6m),...
View ArticleObamacare Surcharge Appearing on Restaurant Bills Across the Country
The small business mandate doesn’t go into effect until 2015, but restaurants across the country are already passing the extra costs associated with having to offer healthcare to their employees on to...
View ArticleCanada to pull out of Afghanistan
Canada’s military efforts in Afghanistan will end this month, with the withdrawal of the last 100 soldiers from Kabul, where they had been wrapping up training of Afghan National Security Forces....
View ArticleAmericans spent $56 billion on pets in 2013
Americans spent a record $55.7 billion on their pets last year, an industry trade group said Thursday, a figure that could increase to a whopping $60 billion this year. The amount Americans shelled out...
View ArticleA map of human problems
I want something I can’t find on the net, something big and important. I want a visual interactive map of human problems and where we are along the various paths to solutions. I want everyone to be...
View ArticleBitcoin near total collapse?
A major bitcoin exchange based in Japan has gone bust after secretly racking up catastrophic losses, a potentially fatal blow for the exotic new form of money. (Feb. 25, 2014) It was supposed to...
View ArticleSaddle Ridge Hoard: Buried gold coin stash worth $10,000,000
The coins were in uncirculated, mint condition, adding to their worth to collectors A California couple found a stash of gold coins buried on their property last year valued at as much as $10m (£6m),...
View ArticleREWARD: 1st to answer this question earns cash money
I need a real answer, an answer that I believe does exist, but one that the company that makes the product about which I have the question could not or would not give me. The correct answer could save...
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