By Morgen E. Peck -
This Christmas season I bought my very first bitcoins. The idea was to give them as gifts to my family, thus setting the Pecks out on the adventure of figuring out how Bitcoin—the four-year-old decentralized, stateless cryptocurrency—works and why it might be important. I enjoy giving homework as a present.
The adventure, however, turned out to be my own, as I first had to find a way to get some bitcoins.
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