You know who’s not loving Bitcoin’s rise? Speed freaks.

Bitcoin is having a moment. In addition to becoming the talk of the town, its staggering price rise over the last 12 months has made some early holders of the cryptocurrency exorbitantly wealthy. 

But not everyone is riding that high. In fact, it’s directly contributed to frustrated would-be Bitcoin transactors chasing a high of a different sort: specifically, the one provided by their drug of choice. 

It seems that the growth of Bitcoin’s popularity has brought with it some challenges to the dark-web marketplaces that exchange cryptocurrency for illicit goods and services, and people are pissed. The transfer fees, you see, have gotten too damn high. Read more…

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