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Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ... by diego on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:17PM (#14591367)
You can buy gift cards for lots of major retailers with bitcoin. You can even buy from amazon via purse.io.
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Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ... by ufo on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:32PM (#14591427)
Everything I have ever read about purse.io indicates that the gift cards there are purchased with stolen credit card details.
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Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ... by gnodar on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:22PM (#14591382)
A lot of people use cash to buy giftcards, in order to pay for bitcoin anonymously. So now it's cash -> giftcard -> bitcoin -> giftcard -> physical thing. The future is odd.
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Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ... by Analemma_ on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:31PM (#14591419)
purse.io is a money laundering operation for stolen credit card numbers. If it hasn't been shut down yet and its operators arrested, it will be soon.
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