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Instant bitcoins — at a price - The Boston Globe

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A Liberty Teller bitcoin machine was placed in South Station in February 2014.

July 06, 2017

One of the two ATMs in the Dorchester check cashing shop was just what you'd expect -- one of those squat, grimy machines that charges you a fee for access to your own money, no matter where you bank.

But the other ATM was something else --...

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Betting on bitcoin - The Boston Globe

Read: Bigger than bitcoin: Here comes blockchain

The United States is taking tentative steps to follow Japan in regulating fintech, though the endgame is far from clear. Importantly, bitcoin does not need to win every battle to justify a sky-high price. Japan, the world's third largest economy, has an extraordinarily high currency-to-income ratio (roughly 20 percent), so bitcoin's success there...

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Brookline police warn against Bitcoin mail scam - The ...

Brookline police are warning against an ongoing mail scam involving letters that demand large sums of Bitcoin from area residents.

The letters instruct recipients to send the scammers the Bitcoin, or those responsible will leak victims' "secrets," police said.

In a sample scam letter posted online by Brookline police, the scammer said that while working in Brookline, they discovered a secret the victim is hiding from his or her wife, and demanded $4,500 to be transferred to their Bitcoin address. The payment would be a "confidentiality fee" to maintain the victim's secret, the...

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