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http://www.icij.org/offshore
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/04/03/offshore-data-leak.html

there will be a run on the banks                        and a run into bitcoins

a tremendous wave of fear sends shockwaves into those tax heavens which Switzerland once used to be.

THEY WILL ALL BUY BITCOIN, after they got taxed !!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

BTC is gonna hit    $5000    next week

They sought the utmost secrecy in offshore tax havens. But now some of the world's wealthiest citizens are having their undisclosed financial records laid bare.

An unprecedented leak of documents is revealing the closely guarded investment information of more than 100,000 people around the world, including hundreds of Canadians.

INTERACTIVE: How the rich hide their money
MAP: Where Canada's offshore account-holders live

In what is believed to be one of the largest ever leaks of financial data, the Washington, D.C.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has received nearly 30 years of data entries, emails and other confidential details from 10 offshore havens around the world.

CBC News has partnered with the ICIJ over the last seven months to gain exclusive Canadian access to the information. Thirty-seven media outlets in 35 other countries are also involved.

"This secret world has finally been revealed," said lawyer and international tax expert Art Cockfield, a professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.

You can tax my brainwallet when you pry it from my cold dead neurons

2008 Germany bribed €4.2 million to a bank employee for stolen data on clients from Liechtenstein bank LG so not surprised BVI would be any different.  Lol@ all the found dictator money Phillipines can finally get back their 3 decades worth of GDP marcos took with him when he left

fact is: Was Julian Assange involved in this?

I kinda believe he is...

I hope they will get what they deserve for their greed.
Unfornunately, I doubt it. Paying some millions wont hurt them at all.

Cheers.

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kinda liked the sound of that one too

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The first event, Cyprus, highlights the fact that Bitcoins cannot be seized.

Now this highlights the other main feature of Bitcoin: Anonymity.

Bitcoin is incredibly lucky to have two events directly after each other that prove its value.

The problem with brain wallet is..... your head might be less safe than a safe box.

Go to a party got dunk and do stupid games,... drop your head on floor and shiet.... you lose memory... all your saving is gone with it.

So you write it down on a piece of paper and hide it under the floorboards :)

(Just try to be sober when you do this :P)

this one spirals off real wide

http://www.picturehost.eu/uploads/81a0f9158d30cfd3877eff4a9a31beba_bk.jpg

portentuous dark clouds in tax heaven

Good thing that scientists are working on a way to read your mind, successfully I might add.

quelle surprise

Thats why i invented my own encrypted thoughts perfect for my bitcoin wallet

it goes like this:  #&¨^&£$*...................%^*!  good luck scientists  ;D

scientists... outta luck with YOUR wallet  ;)

stay tuned though - bunch of rich f*cks will be exposed any day now!

they oughta get ready for a "haircut"  ;) :D

It's almost like we have an angel in the ranks of the elite...

I haven't seen any explanation of where the leaked data came from.  All the ICIJ states is that "a computer hard drive packed with corporate data and personal information and e-mails arrived in the mail."  Arrived from whom?  How credible is this story?

I believe Julian Assange masterminded this.

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this guy by now knows how to handle this stuff

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Imagine if a "pro-bitcoin" individual was behind this. By revealing this information, he/she demonstrated that there is no safety/anonymity behind the walls of the policies/laws of nations.  The only true protection can be found in Bitcoin.

Bitcoin can't yet handle the est. $32 Trillion that is squirreled away in BVI. Due to mtgox trading lag it would also take you your entire life just trying to buy enough coins to convert a minor Russian oligarch's wealth to BTC

Maybe when BTC are worth a million each

if the oligarch bought real big positions that could be done in a day

Is it bad to not want your money to be stolen by a criminal protection racket?

When I first started paying taxes I knew I wasn't getting value for money.  Where do those taxes go for the most part?  Military adventures?  Mostly lazy public servants?  Lying politicians?  Stimulus programs?  Bank bailouts?

Who are the real criminals?  The ones who steal your money or the ones who don't want their money to be stolen?

Your heart is in the right place - but you're not thinking it through.


They're the same people.  If you think they aren't, you're next to the slaughterhouse...

government is replete with criminals

They're the same people.  
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The government and the tax evaders are all the same people?  How so?   


Government is by definition criminal in that it has no authority, it is all based on a lie if you go right to the bottom of it.

However, cheering when the government goes after people who haven't committed any crimes (there are no victims in tax evasion) is probably not a good idea.  One day someone will be cheering when they go after you for a non-crime.

And what does it matter anyway?  Do you think you'll come out better off if the government gets all that money?  That maybe you might end up paying less tax?  It will just mean the government will take on even more obligations, now that it has more to spend, which ultimately will be paid by the middle class through more tax and inflation. 

It might not seem fair that the rich have got away with not paying huge amounts of money, but really the focus should be on why the middle and lower class has to pay either and not on the ones who managed to escape the grasping claws.

I didn't say that, did I?

Responding to your: "The ones who steal your money or the ones who don't want their money to be stolen?", I said they were the same people.

Thinking that it is the government who steals your money is - forgive me - simplistic.  Who runs shit in this world?  Do you really believe that it's the governments?