They are the modern day evolution of the gamblers, harlots, snake oil salesmen and con artists who followed the pioneers who settled the American west or the risk takers who search for gold in the hills.

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But is designed to support the evolution of this marketplace which may, one day, allow for some form of electronic exchange to emerge.

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Phil Bosua was thinking about this one day, and figured he could take the humble bulb a step forward in its evolution.

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Day takes the idea of returning to past experiments and exposes them to gamma radiation, speeding up the evolution process across 14 tracks.

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