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Twilight of the Innovation Zones
Editor’s note: The Smart City proposal is in ruins. In a letter to Gov. Steve Sisolak dated Sept. 30, Blockchains CEO Jeffrey Berns wrote that his firm was withdrawing the proposal because the concept “has […]
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Utopia on the Truckee
The road to building a high-tech, smart city in the desert east of Reno has so far been paved with cash and propaganda, and will soon reach a crossroads as the Nevada Legislature lurches past […]
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Blockchains’ city: The Next Bullfrog County?
In 1987, the Nevada Legislature fashioned a new county– called Bullfrog County– out of the 144 square miles of Nye County that surrounded the proposed nuclear waste site known as Yucca Mountain. The county had […]
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Smart city, company town
The company planning to build a gleaming, high-tech city of the future about 20 miles east of Reno wants to carve a new county out of the high desert hills and run the local government […]