Deep in the suburbs of Newjersey, just around the corner from a tax office, is a Russian bathhouse - a banya, Inside, you don a bathing suit and join a handful of gruff Russians to brave the searing heat, There's a bundle of birch twigs with a duct-taped handle that you can soak in icy water and thrash yourself with, All for just 0.03 bitcoins. Bear and Birch is run by ex-Goldman Sachs equities trader Peter Kizenko, It accepts Bitcoin, and is the luxury stop on a 24-hour Bitcoin road trip from Somerville, Massachusetts, to Wall Street, I start in Starbucks, A third-degree Facebook friend, Michael Giovinco, agrees to sell me $150 of Bitcoin to make the journey to New York, I tell him that I plan to use it to drive there, stop at the bathhouse on the way then head into the city to buy some groceries to stock up my girlfriend's apartment, Giovinco, who has held about 600 bitcoins since 2012, chuckles. "How do you plan to do that?"
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机译：在新泽西州郊区的深处，一个税务局就在拐角处，那里是一间俄罗斯澡堂-一家banya，在里面，你穿上泳衣，和几名粗鲁的俄罗斯人一起冒着灼热，还有一堆桦树枝。仅需0.03比特币，即可使用带导管的手柄将其浸入冰冷的水中并搅打自己。 Bear and Birch由前高盛股票交易员Peter Kizenko经营，它接受比特币，是从马萨诸塞州萨默维尔到华尔街的24小时比特币公路旅行的豪华站，我从星巴克开始学习Facebook的朋友Michael Giovinco同意向我出售150美元的比特币以前往纽约，我告诉他我打算用它开车去那儿，在澡堂停下来，然后前往市区购买一些杂货为我女朋友的公寓Giovinco积蓄，自2012年以来，他一直持有约600枚比特币。 “你打算怎么做？”
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