 It's Tuesday, August 28th, 2012. I'm David Pierce, three parts WUB 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 ePayment 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 plan 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 it hopes can be a nonpartisan 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 has partnered with TurboVote 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 e-currency banker we speculated might be the Bernie Madoff of Bitcoin. Well, that story just took a much darker turn. User Pirate at Forty has shut down his virtual hedge fund, called Bitcoin Savings and Trust, along with its reported $5.6 million US dollars in virtual currency. The suspected pyramid scheme has stopped paying its clients hell and has essentially gone dark. This isn't the first time an elaborate scheme has cost Bitcoin users real money, but sadly the track record for justice so far is pretty poor. And that's it for today's top stories. Tune in tomorrow when we check out the White Castle that's just opened halfway up the London Space Elevator.
 It's Tuesday, August 28th, 2012. I'm David Pierce, three parts WUB 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 ePayment
 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 plan 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 it hopes can be a nonpartisan 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 has partnered with TurboVote 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 e-currency banker we speculated might be the
 Bernie Madoff of Bitcoin. Well, that story just took a much darker turn. User Pirate
 at Forty has shut down his virtual hedge fund, called Bitcoin Savings and Trust, along with
 its reported $5.6 million US dollars in virtual currency. The suspected pyramid scheme has
 stopped paying its clients hell and has essentially gone dark. This isn't the first time an elaborate
 scheme has cost Bitcoin users real money, but sadly the track record for justice so
 far is pretty poor.
 And that's it for today's top stories. Tune in tomorrow when we check out the White Castle
 that's just opened halfway up the London Space Elevator.