One day his friend thought of using Bitcoin to make the transfers. Griff loved the idea of currency that wasn’t issued by any government and exchanged his real gold for digital gold. He went back to the United States to live with a girlfriend in West Hollywood, where he worked as a massage therapist—he was using the skills he picked up in Thailand—but he couldn’t stop thinking about Bitcoin. One day he decided to break up with his girlfriend, take the gains from his crypto investments, which at that point were worth several thousand dollars, and move to Ecuador. His plan was to become a
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