The Bitcoin Boom Reaches a Canadian Ghost Town

With fewer than 100 residents, Ocean Falls is looking for a revival after almost four decades of industrial false starts.

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Sep 4, 2018 · 12 min read
British Columbia, Canada. Photo: Julie Picardi/Barcroft Images/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

By Joshua Brustein

In 1971, an 11th grader named Greg Strebel wrote the introduction to a book about Ocean Falls, the tiny town in the British Columbian…

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