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Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by kneel on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:07PM (#13297657)
Both although it's hard to tell how much is success and how much is speculation.

Bitcoin's dirty little secret: Illegal drugs/services.

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Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by pmorici on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:24PM (#13298010)
If you can't buy drugs with it then I'd argue it isn't money. In Baltimore you can trade a bottle of name brand laundry detergent for drugs. I guess that is a clean secret though.
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Re:Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading by rebuilder on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:14PM (#13297690)
It's hardly a secret. It was designed to be a tool for circumventing states' financial control. Illicit transactions are an obvious application.
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