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ANDREA BERNSTEIN: Back at the end of May, I went to a bar in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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MIKE GERMANO: Hi, pleasure to meet you.
BERNSTEIN: Wow.
GERMANO: Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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ALEXI HOROWITZ-GHAZI: It’s a Bitcoin bar where you can buy an actual beer with virtual currency.
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GERMANO: This is a dive bar.
BERNSTEIN: Yeah, but it looks really nice.
GERMANO: I would say we’re a luxury dive bar. So, you know, dive bars are approachable places for everybody, you know? That’s the–
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BERNSTEIN: The first person I meet is a guy named Mike Germano. He’s one of the people that runs this place. It’s called…
