Doctor Bitcoin, Jailed For Selling P2P, Warns Others They’ll Be Next

Doctor Bitcoin, Jailed For Selling P2P, Warns Others They’ll Be Next

Bitcoin educational persona Doctor Bitcoin explains his recent arrest for selling BTC and warns that the government won’t stop with him.In 2011, journalist and tech entrepreneur Mark Hopkins shared dinner with a longtime friend who offered to pay for his half of the meal by sending Hopkins some newly-minted bitcoin, which the friend had mined himself on his laptop. In a recent telephone interview with Bitcoin Magazine, Hopkins quipped that he had never heard of the world’s first peer-to-peer cryptocurrency before, but “being a good nerd myself,” he had his laptop with him and downloaded....


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