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Topic: 2012-10-01 nbcnews.com - 3-D printed gun project derailed by legal woes (Read 787 times)

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Again Bitcoin only gets a passing mention in this story...but it's a good one.

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3-D printed gun project derailed by legal woes

Devin Coldewey
2012-10-01


http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/3-d-printed-gun-project-derailed-legal-woes-6213570

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The group originally tried to raise money to develop the Wiki Weapon, as they call it, on the crowd-funding website IndieGoGo. The site pulled the plug, however, before the $20,000 the group was hoping to collect was pledged. Undeterred, Defense Distributed solicited donations in the Bitcoin virtual currency, and soon achieved their funding goal.
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