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We live in the future! (lemmy.world)

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

I too, ran across Bitcoin in the VERY early days, when it was pennies. I thought it was a scam and probably illegal, I mean "people can't just set up their own currency, can they?" It didn't help that I first found it when I was poking around in Tor, wondering what the "dark web" was all about.