This eleven-year-old’s guide to Bitcoin teaches you all you need to know about Bitcoin
Last year, in pursuit of his goal to make twenty million dollars by the age of fourteen, Andrew Courey (who is currently eleven) began researching Bitcoin. After devoting some serious hours to… Read more »
Cryptocurrencies might solve an ad revenue problem for Salon, and book publishers should take note
All of the computer hardware in the world combined can do about 1.5 x 10^21 FLOPS per second (translation: roughly a fuckton). It reflects a huge uptrend in our ability to perform… Read more »
A new, $500,000 grant will help the University of Arizona Poetry Center fight mass incarceration
Final Jeopardy time: The clue is, “This tool of white supremacy is the greatest evil in American society today.” Savvy contestants will likely respond, “What is mass incarceration, Alex?” Perhaps it would have to be run… Read more »
Criminal justice reform can now get a boost from tech users, i.e. all of us
The criminal justice system in the United States has been targeting and suppressing minorities and poor people for decades, and reforms to combat institutional racism have been stalled or ignored by legislators. But if there’s anything we’ve… Read more »