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BY LEAH MCGRATH GOODMAN

@truth_eater

MONEY PROBLEMS: Some fear virtual currencies could hinder America’s ability to disrupt the financial networks of its foes and even upend parts of the global financial system.
GEORGE FREY/GETTY

ON A MOUNTAINOUS stretch along the Orange River between South Africa and Namibia lies a small town called Orania, a homeland founded in the 1990s by white nationalists who introduced their own currency, the ora—probably the only tender in the world created exclusively for whites.

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