#115 The Bitcoin Hunter

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Writer Jia Tolentino has a new case for Super Tech Support: where are all those bitcoin she bought six years ago? Further Reading Planet Money's bitcoin story Stories by Jia Tolentino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, this is Replyall. I'm Alex Goldman.
0:08.6	And I'm PJ Boat.
0:13.7	And this week PJ we have a Super Tech Support.
0:21.4	Super Tech Support is a segment on our show where listeners write in with extraordinary
0:26.8	unsolvable tech problems.
0:29.0	And we decide to do a great job solving them.
0:31.3	I think you're the person who will solve all of them.
0:34.2	Yeah. And I actually have kind of a doozy this week.
0:36.6	What have you got?
0:38.1	So this Super Tech Support comes to us from one of my favorite writers.
0:43.2	First things first. Can you just tell me who you are?
0:46.3	I'm Gea Tullantino. I'm staff writer at the New Yorker.
0:49.8	And you emailed us.
0:51.6	Yes I did. Can you tell me why you emailed us?
0:54.6	I emailed you guys because I bought Bitcoin in what I thought was 2011 but I think was
0:59.8	January 2012. I bought some Bitcoin because I had read Adrian Chens piece on Gaucker about
1:04.6	Silk Road. And I was like, I want to see if I could learn how to buy Bitcoin and figure
1:08.9	out what the dark web is.
1:10.2	Gea told me that at the time she just gotten back from a year in the Peace Corps. She was
1:14.6	in Kyrgyzstan. And she just had very little access to the internet.
1:18.2	And so I got reacquainted with the internet by buying some Bitcoin and then buying some
1:24.4	drugs off Silk Road and then being like, wow, the internet's tight. And I sampled a couple
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