Bitcoin Refuses to Die as Currency Draws Draper: Opening Line
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When last we ventured into the Wild West of finance to check on bitcoin, we learned how difficult it is to find places to spend money you can’t see or touch.
Nothing, it seemed, had emerged to rival the underground marketplace known as Silk Road, shut down by U.S. law enforcement in 2013 for dealing in drugs, phony passports and services that might make Craigslist blush.