<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 26 Nov 2022 at 11:04, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_2378456755696326035WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Giovanni Santostasi via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] bitcoin again<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Spike,<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">>…There is a ton of evidence that the US threatens crypto as an asset not necessarily money but definitely valuable assets…<br>>…So the lawyers in the case you created should not mention BTC as a money but as property that can be stolen and therefore accusing Bankman to be a thief. <br><br>Giovanni <br><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Ja thanks for the clarification Giovanni. Note that I am not saying what I think should happen, but rather what I think will happen. I think Bankman Fried is a thief but not necessarily a tax code violator. With that clarification, I stand with my prediction: Bankman Fried will not be prosecuted in criminal court but rather in tax court.</p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Is there any evidence FTX did not pay the taxes they legally had to pay?</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_2378456755696326035WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt" dir="auto"></p></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>