<div><div dir="auto">The second degree of irony (of which I'm still parsing through) is that in the US all Bitcoin transactions are taxable events.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So does that mean that paying taxes in BTC would also engender yet another taxable event? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Outside of the infinite feedback loop of paying your crypto taxes, I think Ohio has done this more in regards of optimism/adoption ("bullish") and hoping to attract small businesses. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Midwest, in general, indeed seems pretty curious to attract crypto talent. There are more than a few politicians from the region announcing their crypto support. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Final note: Bitcoin will eventually get absorbed by the state or die. I feel pretty confident about that despite holding a bit of this magic Internet money...</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Tom Geller <<a href="mailto:tom@tomgeller.com">tom@tomgeller.com</a>> schrieb am Di. 27. Nov. 2018 um 18:25:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">This strikes me as strange because of something taught to me in an economics class 15 years ago: Taxes are one of the only pinchpoints where government can insist on payment in dollars. <div><br></div><div>Even if the rest of society starts trading in chicken feet, by insisting on dollars the government ensures that they continue to have value. (No dollars? We're putting you in jail.) When the Hungarian pengő bills became near-worthless in 1945, what replaced them? Tax certificates ("adópengő").<div><br></div><div>Perhaps I was mistaught, or that economic model is no longer valid. Or perhaps the state is sticking it to the federal government. (In the latter case, I'd expect some lawsuits and public statements.) In either case, I don't get it.</div><div><div>
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