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We’re pleased to announce the second Coinbase Bitcoin Hackathon, with $70,000 worth of prizes and judged by leading Bitcoin experts and investors. Developers from around the world are invited to build a bitcoin-integrated application and to submit it for consideration by May 19th, 2015. The Coinbase API suite supports a wide variety of Bitcoin capabilities, to include creating bitcoin wallets, sending/receiving and buying/selling bitcoin, building bitcoin trading tools, and exploring raw blockchain data.

This hackathon is a distributed, six-week competition, open to anyone with an Internet connection. You are not required to be physically present. Entries will be accepted today …read more

Ogden, UT — An imaginative and young-hearted father is getting a taste of police state USA after he received a threat of extortion from his local government — for building a cardboard fort.
Jeremy Trentelman is a professional floral designer which gives him access to large cardboard boxes that hold botanical trees. Like any creative and imaginative father would do, Trentelman saw potential in these huge boxes, so he acted on it.
“I had warm, positive memories from my childhood about forts, and thought it was a great way to spark imagination, away from the TV,” Trentelman said.
His two children, Max 3 …read more

Illinois police have fatally shot a 17-year-old by firing twice at his back after chasing him for two blocks. A gun was recovered from the scene, but two witnesses said the teenager wasn’t armed at the time of the shooting.
RT.com
Family members identified the victim as Justus Howell, a 17-year-old from Waukegan, Illinois.
The Zion Police Department was responding to a call about a fight in the northern suburb of Chicago on Saturday afternoon. They said a man with a gun fled from the officers when they arrived. After chasing the man for two blocks, a cop shot the suspect, Zion police …read more

On the evening of April 6, the Greenville, South Carolina, city council tentatively voted to switch to partisan elections for city office. See this story. Assuming the change is finalized, the Greenville County Republican Party will be free to again sue the state over the law that forces county parties to pay for the administration of partisan primaries in cities within that county. The party does not object to paying for the primary but it objects to being told that the party must let non-members vote in its city primaries.
Just a few weeks ago, the Fourth Circuit …read more

Nevada SB 434 has a hearing in the Senate Legislative Operations & Elections Committee on Monday afternoon, April 6. Here is a copy of the bill. It makes it more difficult for initiative circulators to work, by requiring them to orally tell everyone they approach whether they are being paid or not. It also requires initiative proponents to file a list of the names and contact information of all paid circulators before the petition can circulate, and requires updated information on a monthly basis. The latter provision is almost identical to a Washington state law that …read more

Washington D.C. — A married couple claims they were assaulted by Metropolitan police last week, and they have the video and their two small children as witnesses to prove it.
Forrest and Chadon Boggs were near their home, with their children when police showed up on the scene.
Officers arrived at the 1500 block of E Street NE last Wednesday after saying they heard reports of people fighting. When officers arrived, they saw that there was no fighting.
As Forrest Boggs was walking by the officers, he says spat on the ground. But Officer Blier, with the Metropolitan police department claimed Boggs spat …read more

Kentucky and Mississippi are the only two states that elect Governors this year. According to this story, an independent candidate will try to collect the 5,000 signatures needed to get on the ballot for Governor of Kentucky. The signatures are due August 11.
The candidate’s name was Terrill Newman, but on March 31 he legally changed his name to Gatewood Galbraith. The original Gatewood Galbraith died in 2012, but he had quite a following when he ran for Governor outside the two major parties in recent past Kentucky elections. In 2011 he polled 74,860 votes (9.0%) as …read more

On April 1, the Vermont Senate passed SB 29, which allows unregistered individuals to register to vote on election day. The bill now goes to the House. Thanks to Mike Drucker for this news. …read more

A new report by ThinkProgress.com unearthed disturbing figures when it came to the number of police-related deaths that occurred in America in the month of March alone.
Just last month, in the 31 days of March, police in the United States killed more people than the UK did in the entire 20th century. In fact, it was twice as many; police in the UK only killed 52 people during that 100 year period.
According to the report by ThinkProgess, in March alone, 111 people died during police encounters — 36 more than the previous month. As in the past, numerous incidents were …read more