A couple of years ago, Jason Murphy typed “how to buy Bitcoin” into Google. The mistake he made next cost him. MY laziness has cost me nearly $200,000. I feel faintly sick about it. Let me tell you my story of woe, starting from the beginning. It was early in 2013 and I was a young financial journalist when I first heard about bitcoin, the digital currency. I wrote a story about bitcoin and interviewed a kid who described himself as a “geek and a programmer.” He bought his bitcoin for just 10 cents each. At that time the bitcoin price was busy shooting up to $US265 and falling back to $US105. Both of which seemed ... (full story)