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new momentum after the
banking crisis in Cyprus pushed depositors there to find creative ways to
move money. Fink, the Argentine, favors bitcoins because he believes they
will insulate him from his country's high inflation. Others -- from Iranian
musicians to American auto dealers -- use the currency to dodge international
sanctions or reach new markets.But the anything-goes nature of Bitcoin has
also made it attractive to denizens of the Internet's dark side.One of
the most prominent destinations for bitcoins remains Silk Road, a black
market website where drug dealers advertise their wares in a consumer-friendly
atmosphere redolent of Amazon or eBay -- complete with a shopping cart
icon, a five-point rating system and voluminous user reviews. The site uses
Tor, an online anonymity network, to mask the location of its servers,
while bitcoin payments ensure there's no paper trail.One British user told
the AP he first got interested in Silk Road while he was
working in China, where he used the site to order banned books.
After moving to Japan, he turned to the site for an occasional
high."Buying recreational drugs in Japan is difficult, especially if you
don't know people from growing up there," said the user, who asked
for anonymity because he did not want his connection to Silk Road
to be publicly known.He warned that one of the site's drawbacks is
that the drugs can take weeks to arrive "so there's no spontaneity."Drug
dealers aren'
swings would
be too jarring -- but an increasing number are accepting it for
payment. Gallippi's company, BitPay, handles Bitcoin transactions for some
4,500 companies, taking payments in bitcoins and forwarding the cash equivalent
to the vendor involved, which means that his clients are insulated from
the cybercurrency's volatility.Gallippi said many of the businesses are
e-commerce websites, but he said an increasing number of traditional retailers
were looking to get into the game as well."We just had an
auto dealership in Kansas City apply," he said.In March, BitPay said its
vendors had done a record $5.2 million in bitcoin sales -- well
ahead of the $1.2 million's worth of monthly revenue estimated to have
coursed through Silk Road last year.Even artists accept bitcoins. Tehran-based
music producer Mohammad Rafigh said the currency had allowed him to sell
his albums "all over the world and not only in Iran."Gallippi said
the cybercurrency's ease of access was its biggest selling point.With Bitcoin,
"I can access my money from any computing device at any time
and do whatever the heck I want with it," he said. "Once
you move your money into the cloud why would you ever go
back to putting your money in the bank?"Many Wall Street veterans are
skeptical -- and they may feel vindicated after Bitcoin's latest tumble."Trading
tulips in real time," is how longtime UBS stockbroker Art Cashin described
Bitcoin's vertiginous rise, comparing
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">lso killed.Manchin, a red-state Democrat working with
blue-state Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, is trying to broker
a deal that would expand criminal and mental health background checks by
pressuring states to share data on prohibited purchasers and to include
sales that take place through a commercial enterprise.An individual could
sell another individual a gun without a background check, but if a
commercial entity is involved hosting a gun show or an Internet
site mandatory checks would be required. Even as gun control proponents
bemoan the deal as watered down, gun rights groups remain worried that
the legislation could be altered to create a federal firearms registry.
The Manchin-Toomey plan forbids the creation of such a list, but conservatives
hold little trust when it is the Obama Justice Department that is
doing the enforcement.But even if Manchin-Toomey somehow survives the Senate
and passes the House, it would not prevent the next Newtown. Or
the next Aurora. Or the next Tucson. Or the next Blacksburg. All
of the weapons said to be involved in those mass killings were
legally purchased from gun merchants and subject to full federal background
checks.And while gun control advocates can be happy that the expanded system
may mean fewer gun sales, theres little reason to think that Manchin-Toomey
would do much to help the problem of greatest concern in the
Democratic Party: street crime. As the urban party, Democrat
A drawing of ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro with a bird on
his fist with an inflatable doll of the late Hugo Chavez in
the background is held up as supporters move to the site
of Maduro's closing campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, April
11, 2013. Maduro, Chavez's hand-picked successor, assured last week during
a campaign rally that Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez's spirit appeared
to him in the form of a little bird that flew around
his head inside a wooden chapel to give him his blessing. He
is running for president against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles
in the presidential election set for Sunday, April 14. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)The
Associated PressVALENCIA, Venezuela It's just after nightfall and the power
is out again in untold hundreds of thousands probably millions
of Venezuelan homes. If the government knows how many,
it's not saying. It hasn't issued reports on problems in the public
power grid since 2010.In Venezuela's third-largest city, Pedro Martinez
dons a shirt for visitors drawn by the flicker of candles inside
his one-story, cement-block house in a middle-class district. The Caribbean
heat is sticky thick inside. A mesh hammock hangs by the front
door."This happens nearly every day," Martinez says of the blackout, holding
a candle close so a reporter can take notes. It's the day's
second outage. The first struck just after noon.It's been like this for
five years, pretty mu
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