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This holiday season you can do your holiday shopping using bitcoin while receiving great discounts and maintaining your bitcoin balance in the process. Earlier this year, we rolled out a feature that made it easy for consumers to instantly buyback bitcoin at checkout. From today until Sunday, we’re eliminating the 1% buyback fees for Coinbase merchant orders.
Many of our merchants are offering discounts on products and services that are purchased with bitcoin. Check out some of our merchants’ holiday deals below:
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Here is a list of candidates who filed to run for office in Chicago’s non-partisan February 2015 election. There are three citywide offices: Mayor, City Clerk, and Treasurer. For City Clerk, only two candidates filed; for Treasurer, only one candidate. Candidates for each citywide office needed 12,500. All petitions in Illinois are deemed valid, unless(More)… …read more

In 2014, the Utah legislature passed a bill providing that a candidate can get on a primary ballot even if he or she does not have much support at a party caucus. Prior the the 2014 bill’s passage, Utah was the only state in which it was impossible for anyone to get on a partisan(More)… …read more

“I know I did my job right,” says Darren Wilson in the first time he’s spoken in public since killing an unarmed teenager in August.
ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos is the first to interview officer Darren Wilson since he shot and killed unarmed Michael Brown in August.
Yahoo News Reports:
In television terms, the Wilson interview was one of the biggest “gets” of the year. Wilson sat down with Stephanopoulos, the “Good Morning America” co-host, less than 24 hours after a grand jury decided not to indict the 28-year-old officer in the shooting death of Michael Brown this summer.
According to ABC, despite …read more

St. Louis, MO — Dozens of emergency response vehicles flooded North Hanley Road Wednesday morning after two FBI agents were shot.
Turn on #ksdk. 2 FBI agents shot this morning in Hanley Hills. Non-life threatening injuries. Info from Stl Co police pic.twitter.com/o6qpo3BHeC
— Ryan Dean (@RyanDeanKSDK) November 26, 2014

The two special agents were shot while helping University City Police Department execute an arrest warrant at approximately 2:53 am, according to FBI spokeswoman Rebecca Wu.

According to USA today, police are looking into the possibility this could be related to an incident late Monday in University City where a police officer was shot in …read more

In 2013 Bitcoin Not Bombs distributed 324 hoodies to the homeless in San Francisco, and did outreach in a downtrodden demographic that could really benefit from this technology, funded and …

“They’re going to have to take him from my cold, dead hands before they get a hold of him“

Moreauville, Louisiana – A town in Louisiana has recently voted to ban all Pit Bulls and Rottweilers, calling them “vicious breeds” of dogs. Current owners of these specific breeds have just one more month to either move out of town, or hand their family pet over to the government to be killed.
While there has traditionally been heavy debate over larger breeds of dogs, in recent years the debate has began to die down, because an overwhelming majority of people now agree that …read more

Ferguson, Mo. – St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, after failing to indict officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown, has released Darren Wilson’s grand jury testimony in the shooting death of Brown.
In addition to Wilson’s testimony, the prosecutor has also released the full grand jury report, including witness interviews, forensic evidence, and medical reports that the grand jury took into evidence. The grand jury of seven men and five women met on 25 days over three months and heard more than 70 hours of testimony.
One of the most troubling aspects regarding Darren Wilson’s testimony comes from the …read more

On November 24, Florida Governor Rick Scott set dates for a special election to fill the vacant State House seat, district 64. The seat is only vacant because the legislature earlier rejected the results of the regular election of November 4 for this seat. See this story. …read more