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Hackers are making bank

We know, we know—cryptocurrency is blowing up. We’re told it’s the next gold rush, that riches are lying around and you just have to be smart enough to know how to pluck them out.

But it’s not all scooping cash out of buckets. Companies are offering ideas so half-baked they border on criminal. Then they fold in months, despite any money they’ve received from early investors, which is the Bitcoin equivalent of your brother-in-law insisting, “I’m gonna start a food truck! I just need another thousand. Can you spot me?”

Before we dive in, here’s a super-quick cryptocurrency primer —…

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