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This past summer I noticed a thrilling, new object animating conversation at every meeting of family and friends. Bitcoin! From the academical outskirts of Durham, to the foothills of the Blue Ridge, to prosperous professional suburbs in New Jersey, people engaged you in talk with this distant but intense look in their eyes: do you have . . .
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