This past week, I had the dubious fortune of confronting the combined force of the Funny, the Bizarre and the Plain Idiotic. And all culled from one daily newspaper in Dar.
First, the Funny: A gang of South African kidnappers holding a teenager hostage state their ransom, and it is in bitcoin worth some $123,000. Now, the bitcoin has been called a “protocoin,” a mystical currency that only the really initiated can appreciate, and one wonders whether the bandits had some knowledge about the kid’s parents and their savvy around the bitcoin.
