Alaska governor Sean Parnell has officially conceded defeat to Independent challenger Bill Walker, concluding that there are not
enough uncounted or disputed ballots to change the outcome of the election.
Future email systems and social networks could refuse to accept incoming messages unless they were accompanied with tiny amounts of Bitcoin — tiny
enough to not matter to the sender, but large
enough to deter spammers, who today can send
uncounted billions of spam messages for free with impunity.