Future of Money TV Series
Our Heather "Vescent" Schlegel is launching a Future of Money TV Series. It's a 6 episode docu-series exploring the evolution of money in six
major aspects: Banking, Payment Transactions, Lending, Barter, Making
Money and the Global Economy. The series interviews experts in financial
innovation and shows futuristic re-enactments of plausible scenarios.
You can learn more at
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hea...v-series
News coverage includes
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7597/the-fut...preview/
and
https://www.wfs.org/futurist-interviews...re-money
World's First Bitcoin Endowment Fund Exceeds $125,000
Thanks to a large pledge of 500 BTC (bitcoins) by Brian Cartmell,
Lifeboat Foundation's bitcoin endowment fund at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/bitcoins has soared to over $125,000. Brian
will match the next 500 BTC donated to Lifeboat Foundation.
Also, to give back to the bitcoin community we have created the first
Windows version of oclvanitygen in the world that runs well on high-end
AMD cards. (Our version runs nearly four times as fast as the old
version!) We also added support for compressed keys as well. You can
download the program for free at http://lifeboat.com/oclvanitygen. This
is a program for generating vanity bitcoin addresses such as our bitcoin
address 1LifeboatZkDbuoHcLkE8TcY7JeqrCB4FB that begins with 1Lifeboat. PGP signature for program is at
https://lifeboat.com/oclvanitygen.zip.sig
Note that we are at 12.5% of our long-term goal to have a million dollar
bitcoin endowment fund which would greatly improve our ability to fund
exciting activities.
Blog
B.J. Murphy joins our blog team with the post "H+ Poetry: A Cosmist's
Tale" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/10/h-poet...sts-tale
Recent interesting blog posts include:
"100YSS: A Success" by Benjamin T. Solomon at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/10/100yss-a-success
"Havens over Hell — Ecosystems of the Venetian Tropopause" by Tom
Kerwick at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/10/havens...opopause
"Quantum Metamaterial and the Feasibility of Invisibility Cloaks" by Tom
Kerwick at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/10/quantu...y-cloaks
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Chris Haley: $1,000,
Donald Maclean: $600,
Anonymous: $225,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
J. Broadbent: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Ryan Charleston: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
Benjamin T. Solomon: $10,
Ryan Witt: $10,
and Dana Edwards: $7.95 (0.04 bitcoins).
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
