I never got anyone else very interested in bitcoins, did I?
I find it hard to believe I first learned about them a year ago. I was reading an issue of Maclean's Magazine on my tablet in Sri Lanka at the time. I used a lot of data doing research from that island country. By the time I had returned home and actually owned any, it was months later.
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