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it's Tuesday August twenty eight twenty twelve i'm david pierce 3 parts web for every two wobbles let's drop 90 seconds on the verge the reddit community is nothing if not passionate and today the website has partnered with a payment network dawala to turn that excitement to good reddit donate allows moderators to add unintrusive donation buttons for any issues they care about like Internet freedom Animal Care and of course narwhal bacon speaking of advocacy reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and company planned to embark on a campaign style bus tour from the debate in Denver all the way to the following week's debate in Kentucky the group will be campaigning for open internet something in hopes can be a non partisan issue that is until someone suggests levying taxes on kitten gifts and if you're not yet registered to vote in the upcoming election Google wants to help change that the company is partnered with turbo vote to help users register in their home state send reminders about voting and provide information about things like mail-in ballots Google will also provide a wealth of information through its politics and elections website and will stream key events on YouTube it's an election year and everyone from google to twitter to amazon evidently wants a piece of the action and finally you might have read about one occurrence e banker we speculated might be the Bernie Madoff of Bitcoin well that story just took a much darker turn user pirate at 40 has shut down his virtual hedge fund called Bitcoin savings and trust along with its reported 5.6 million u.s. dollars in virtual currency the suspected pyramid scheme has stopped paying its clientele and has essentially gone dark this isn't the first time in elaborate scheme has cost Bitcoin users real money but sadly the track record for justice so far it's pretty poor and that's it for today's top stories tune in tomorrow when we check out the White Castle that's just open halfway at the London space elevator