- Octopart’s “Common Parts Library” (http://octopart.com/common-parts-library) was highlighted as a curated open-source collection of frequently-used electronic components, intended to accelerate open-hardware prototyping.  
- Participants condemned Scribd after the EFF reported that a Colombian student faced prison for sharing an academic paper on the platform; the case was cited as evidence that Scribd’s paywall shift endangers open-access scholarship.  
- A Google Groups thread on “bulletproof” biological containment was referenced (pastebin mirror: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=VZVaHEN7), but access restrictions prevented full discussion.  
- A data-driven post-mortem of Silk Road 2.0 (http://lau.im/articles/analyzing-silk-road-2-0-part-1/) was shared, offering empirical insights into dark-market economics relevant to decentralized trade technologies.  
- A detailed critique of Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism was circulated from “alts.pdf” (https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/alts.pdf), arguing that Bitcoin replaces cryptographic certainty with economic incentives, leaving the protocol vulnerable to 51 % attacks and complicating formal security analysis.  
- Paperbot delivered two paywalled research articles via LibGen: a Nature paper on an unspecified topic (doi:10.1038/nature13769) and a Science early-view article (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2014/08/20/science.1252945), demonstrating continued reliance on shadow libraries for open scientific discourse.