We at Forbes should know: We tried, and we got caught. To be clear, we weren't caught by law enforcement--so far at least, our experiment last month in ordering small amounts of marijuana from three different Bitcoin-based online black markets hasn't resulted in anyone getting arrested. But a few weeks after those purchases, I asked Sarah Meiklejohn, a Bitcoin-focused computer science researcher a
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