Kieckhefer likes 'big ideas,' will look at Blockchains 'smart city'
Next year, Jeffrey Berns, CEO of Nevada-based Blockchains LLC, hopes to break ground on his proposed "smart city" in Storey County, which eventually would include 15,000 homes, 33 million square feet of commercial/industrial space and use an economy based on blockchain cryptocurrency. His utopian idea has already drawn vocal opposition because Berns proposes to govern the new city with its own government. Conservationists, too, are opposed, because Berns' purchased water-rights are 100-miles away and would need a pipeline across vast stretches of Northern Nevada to reach his city. Yet state S...