Over the last year or so, we have covered many of the weirder places cryptocurrencies go, from sculpture to former Soviet missile bunkers, from Thai beach conferences to Siberian plumbing.
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But one can always count on Korea to take things a step further. In July, a South Korean company claimed it had discovered the wreck of a Russian warship, the Dmitrii Donskoi, containing $130 billion of gold.
No sooner had it done so than a website appeared promising a cryptocurrency exchange linked to the wreck and its cargo, supposedly to share profits from the wreck by giving the virtual currency to people who use the exchange.
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