[ExI] i miss intrade

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 24 November 2013 18:20, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>... On Behalf Of Stathis Papaioannou
>
>>> ... no bitcoins and don't want
>> to risk owning them unless I can see what it allows me to buy...
>> But we have a former IRS chief who invoked the fifth, and we STILL
>> don't know what felonies she committed.
>>
>> spike
>
>>...Why would bitcoins cause you any more problems with the IRS than cash?
> --
>>...Stathis Papaioannou
> _______________________________________________
>
> Stathis, privacy is under vicious attack in the USA.  Bitcoin offers both
> privacy and a possible means of a currency which is difficult to tax.  The
> government will surely see it as a threat.  The current US government has
> been caught spying on news reporters, leaking confidential taxpayer
> information, suppressing the Tea Party, using the IRS to go after political
> enemies, power grabs un an unprecedented scale.  From the first time I heard
> it, I thought BTC would attract IRS attention, and it is a government agency
> completely free of accountability for its power.  We have two directors who
> have been caught in wrongdoing.  One pled the fifth and walked away, with no
> repercussions.  The other is still on the job, or rather has been
> transferred to the branch of the IRS charged with enforcing the individual
> mandate of the healthcare reform.
>
> How could any American not see what his happening?  Apparently they never
> read or understood Hayek's Road to Serfdom.
>
> I think it is dangerous for Americans to own bitcoins.  There is no law
> against it specifically, but there is no effective law against the IRS
> destroying you without evidence either.
>
> spike

But cash is at least as anonymous as Bitcoin.


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Stathis Papaioannou