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Bit of the action Bitcoin’s value surging, but local acceptance of the currency remains sluggish By Rob Miech | Special to VEGAS INC
Outside a 76 station on West Charleston Boulevard on a recent Friday afternoon, John Syntax takes a drag off of a Parliament cigarette and waits … and waits ... for five $100 bills to emerge at the bitcoin ATM, or BTM, inside. He’s been here nearly an hour. ¶ A network that supposedly cranked up its processing speed in 2015, when it was seven b itcoin, Continued on page 15
$200M Amount AT&T has invested in Las Vegas networks over the past three years. In 2016, AT&T made more than 775 wireless network upgrades in the area, the company said.
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Number of Jeep Wranglers stolen in Southern California by the Dirty 30, a gang that would relay vehicle identification numbers to a Jeep dealer in Mexico, which would send key replacements.