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Playboy Reports on the Free State Project

by Ian | Jul 15, 2015 | 4 comments

Playboy Magazine’s Joe Donatelli reports from Freedom Fest 2015, where over 2,000 people gathered this year, including many libertarians.

The Free State Project had a large contingent there, working the crowd, and was able to garner at least twenty new signers, bringing us ever closer to the goal of 20,000 people pledging to move their lives to New Hampshire!

Here’s the full piece from Playboy.

“Victimless Crime Spree”, “101 Reasons” Torrents Updated With New Trackers

by Ian | Jul 13, 2015 | 0 comments

If you are seeding (or willing to seed) Derrick J’s Victimless Crime Spree or 101 Reasons Liberty Lives in New Hampshire, please download the updated torrent files below and open them with your torrent program to import the new trackers:

Derrick J’s Victimless Crime Spree 720p
101 Reasons Liberty Lives in New Hampshire
FSP Grindhouse ISO (DJVCS and 101 Reasons on one burnable DVD ISO)
Derrick J’s Victimless Crime Spree PEG 4×3 Version (for public access TV airing)

Free State Project Featured in “FREEDOM! The Movie” on CMT

by Ian | Jul 12, 2015 | 2 comments

Morgan Spurlock’s “FREEDOM! The Movie” premiered last night on CMT. The documentary film features comedian Billy Wayne Davis on a search for freedom in America. Along the way, he meets a bunch of interesting characters including Free State Project early movers Silver Dave, Carla Gericke, Keene’s Robin Hooders, and more.

Here’s the full movie: (more…)

Region’s Only Bitcoin Vending Machine Upgraded!

by Ian | Jul 11, 2015 | 0 comments

The Keene Bitcoin Vending Machine @ 101 Deals

The region’s only Bitcoin Vending Machine (located at 101 Deals Thrift Store) still looks the same on the outside. It’s got the same, bright, quick, easy-to-use interface. Internally, though. a major upgrade has been made. The machine is no longer relying on blockchain.info for sending customers’ bitcoin and instead is using its own full bitcoin node. Though it nearly always worked previously, it’s now going to be rock-solid-reliable.

As of this writing, the Keene Bitcoin Vending Machine has served more than 30 BTC to various buyers in the last two months. Now, with the price of a full bitcoin rising to nearly $300 USD in recent weeks, there is renewed interest in the reliable, decentralized internet currency. You can learn more about bitcoin at WeUseCoins.com

You can try the Keene Bitcoin Vending Machine for as little as $1. Just get a bitcoin wallet for your smartphone like Airbitz and drop into 101 Deals Thrift Store at 661 Marlboro St. in Keene from Tue-Fri 11a-5p and Saturday 10a-6p.

FSP Early Movers Launch Nanobrewery in Concord: Area 23

by Ian | Jul 11, 2015 | 1 comment

Area 23’s Founders Kevin Bloom, Kirk McNeil, (and Chris Lopez and others)

Free State Project early movers Kirk McNeil and Kevin Bloom are busy guys. Among other lobbying efforts in Concord, they worked to legalize nanobreweries. Their efforts paid off and nanobreweries are now legal in New Hampshire! Bloom even drafted the original law for the state rep who submitted it.

Now, the two, who are also founders of the Church of the Sword, have opened the doors on “Area 23“, Concord’s first nanobrewery (and they accept bitcoin!). Their grand opening was yesterday and appears to have been packed.

The Concord Monitor’s Nick Reid filed a follow up piece on the opening of Area 23, after originally reporting on it long before it opened its doors.

Here’s Area 23’s website and facebook page. Area 23 is located in Concord at 254 N. State St. in the Smokestack Center’s Unit H. Congrats to Kirk and Kevin on their tremendous continuing efforts to move freedom forward in New Hampshire.