My journey into the dark economy starts much as expected: in front of a computer screen, late at night. It ends somewhere quite unexpected, in a humdrum setting a world away from the stereotype of modernity, equality and sticking it to the man promised by digital currencies such as Bitcoin: it ends in a used DVD store, my purchase refused. The dark economy is moving into the light. In a few scattered places, 40 or
Can you buy anything real with Bitcoin? On the streets, it proves a hard sell
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