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imglorp
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Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (20...
It's closer to a commodity than a currency: fixed supply. In fact, the IRS is treating BTC as a commodity, to be valued, for tax purposes.
Frogolocalypse
on Dec 9, 2017
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You should probably at some point recognize that everyone doesn't live in America
imglorp
on Dec 11, 2017
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Oh sure, US was just demonstrative: I think commodity is the right mindset, both as a user and as a community. Banning it's not going to happen, taxing it will be tricky, and it may be premature to rework anybody's tax system just for BTC.
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