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Bitcoin was the “digital money” demanded by the South African kidnappers as a ransom but it had to be paid electronically behind an invisible wall and away from the peering eyes of the police. Bitcoin is, at the risk of villianizing it, the sum of money converted from a fiat currency into a digital form, and stored digitally in an electronic wallet. Despite its sophistication, Bitcoin can be deemed a threat because it facilitates the exchange of value between peers across a labyrinth of computer networks.