- Bitcoin’s price floor and hoarding dynamics: participants debated whether ~USD $450 auto-sell triggers caused the recent drop and noted that >50 % of BTC is held by speculators, while real utility may lie in micro-payments and circumventing expensive international wires for “under-the-table” hardware purchases.  
- Multisig adoption: kanzure shared a live chart (http://p2sh.info/multisig) showing steady growth in Bitcoin multisignature transaction usage.  
- Cyborg policy futures: rkos linked a Brookings Institution report, “The Cyborg Future: Law and Policy Implications of Emerging Technologies,” as required reading on governance challenges ahead.  
- Sony’s monochrome-green e-paper prototype (press release at http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201409/14-090E/) sparked nostalgia for classic amber displays and discussion of low-power reflective screens for wearables.  
- ContainerCamp London (http://container.camp/) was flagged as a forthcoming event for container/Docker enthusiasts.  
- Sonic Pi (http://sonic-pi.net/#examples) was introduced as an educational live-coding environment that lets novices create music by writing code in real time.