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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
Iwan Stone & Graeme Murray

Cryptocurrency pals accidentally spend £2.2MILLION on a book

A blundering crypto-currency group spent £2.2million on a book thinking they were buying the copyright.

Spice DAO believed buying the rare copy of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune would mean that they could make an animated series from it.

The digital currency firm boasted: "We won the auction. Now our mission is to make the book public, to the extent permitted by law.

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