New York Times
Nathaniel Popper covers finance and technology from San Francisco for The New York Times. He is the author of Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money.
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Trafficking opioids via the dark web Two 13-year-old boys in Park city, Utah, are among the dead from the synthetic opioid fentanyl — now the fastest-growing cause of overdoses nationwide. Authorities say another local teenager bought the drugs on the dark web using Bitcoin. That's according to Nathaniel Popper of the New York Times , who reports that the online drug trade is on track to be "even more formidable than the cartels."
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