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My mind went back to 2013, when I had first taken an interest in Bitcoin. In a report for Radio 4’s PM programme, I had bought a pizza for 0.5 BTC, a tortuous process which had not seemed worth the \u00a330 it cost back then – of course, at today’s exchange rate, that was a \u00a314,000 pizza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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