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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Brent Allsop <<a href="mailto:brent.allsop@canonizer.com">brent.allsop@canonizer.com</a>> wrote:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>></span><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='color:black'> Is there any way the Bitcoin network could be altered to allow for more than currently allotted 21 million Bitcoins?<</span><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='color:black'>No. That is one of the beauties of Bitcoin. Scarcity is built into the system. Think of it as a precious metal in this respect. There is only so much gold in the world. In a similar way, will be only so much Bitcoin in the world</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:black'>Gordon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This is a post primarily for Americans, apologies Europeans. We still love you guys, but this one is our problem, and does involve bitcoins even if indirectly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fellow Americans, if you are watching and listening at all, you know that we are seeing a rather terrifying development. The former director of the IRS has been caught targeting political enemies, and has been allowed to skate for two reasons: there are apparently no laws against using the threat of an IRS audit to target political enemies, and even if anyone objects, the director merely invokes her fifth amendment rights. So she can audit your brains out, she can essentially destroy you invoking the 16<sup>th</sup> amendment, all while invoking the fifth. If you get called in for an audit, you cannot invoke the fifth. If you will try, they will remind you that 16 is bigger than 5, and you are toast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So now we know how the hell they figured anyone would buy health insurance. ObamaCare requires that everyone must buy health insurance, or pay a penalty, which is about 10% the price of the insurance. Obviously the young-and-healthies will just pay the penalty, wait until they get sick to buy health insurance. The Supreme Court declared it not a penalty, but rather a tax. So, the enforcement quite logically goes to the IRS. So now you can buy insurance, or you can choose to pay the penalty *<b>and get an IRS audit</b>* your choice, do you feel lucky?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We have an IRS which is completely protected in doing whatever the hell it wants, in forcing you to do whatever it wants, and oh by the way, you still have first and second amendment rights, in theory smirk. Of course if you actually USE either, you risk an IRS audit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So if I use bitcoins, am I not inviting an IRS audit?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Since I mention first amendment rights, what about this news reporter who is being investigated by the Justice Department under the Espionage Act? Since this is wartime (Afghanistan) then anyone convicted under that act could theoretically face a firing squad. Anyone who is on the call list of that reporter is also at risk, as are his parents. Even if he doesn’t end up facing a firing squad, it looks like he has an even greater risk of facing the IRS, and if so the firing squad would be a blessed relief from his problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>