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Part One: Let's Talk About Cryptocurrency

Behind the Bastards

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E Gold

In 19 96, some weird libertarians invented an anonymous digital currency backed by actual gold. E gold was popular for more than a decade among people who wanted to buy drugs over the internet from shady canadian pharmaceutical web sites. But like modern crypto currency, it was waigh less anonymous than its founders claimed and handed over their records to law enforcement when requested.

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