cryptolonography

Some guy in Argentina got a QR code tattooed to his arm. When scanned the QR code would open a YouTube URL which had videos of his favorite team scoring goals.

This had daunting implications for a governmental office, Westbrook realized. The task force might buy $1,000 worth of the volatile currency, only to wake up the next day and find their wallet’s value down to $900 or up to $1,100. Agency bigwigs didn’t love schemes deviating from tradition, investigators say. They certainly were reluctant to become bitcoin speculators. “It was a headache,” Westbrook says. (But not unheard of: As part of a parallel investigation into AlphaBay, DEA agents in 2016 bought drugs using bitcoin. Before that, they purchased crypto as they sought to shut down Silk Road.)

Bitcoin is going haywire at the same time the world is.

Bitcoin is going haywire at the same time the world is.