02/10/2009
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"If Bitcoin continues to attract attention, mostly as a way to finance purchases on Web sites like Silk Road, it is going to find itself in the digital wasteland."
"Right. And I am sure you have thought about this, because you realize the danger Silk Road-type actors have to this appropriate new way of payment."
"It took long enough."
"It is imperative that its susceptibility to illicit uses be addressed."