Erm, if you're signed up to the big exchanges then your details will be there for the tax man to tap in future if they decide to look a little closer. You may get away with it. You may not. Either way you've already marked yourself and it's not as if they're going to get more relaxed as the years go on.

Pay the tax and save yourself ball ache and risk.

If you're determined then the only real way is a cash in hand trade in person. I can't see many posting cash in the mail.

What would be the deal with provenance and liability? I presume that would be their number one reason for turning something like this down. It's not as if they'll have a Casascius desk. The entire valuation hinges on what's behind the sticker so it looks a little too hot to handle for them.

All QR codes? How long has it been doing that?

I've never experienced that.

Mycelium has a clipboard feature on the sending page so you could copy and paste the address using that. Obviously double check it's the right address.

I've never seen anything like this for sale in such places. I would've thought something would've popped up somewhere by now. Perhaps it doesn't occur to owners.

Fees could turn out to be a beast too.

It's going to be a long time before established auction houses want to touch stuff like this. If you turned up with one now they'd pat you on the head and tell you to leave. Too many unknowns for them and they wouldn't know how to market it either.

If I owned something like this I'd be pretty stumped. I'd probably only sell in person to someone VERY established on here and even then peeling would look like a lot less trouble. I'm more interested in my own well being than preserving Casascius heritage.

I would not use Wirex for any type of bank transfer ever.

Every single complaint I've read about them regards moving fiat in and out and nothing else. Their banking is clearly of a lower tier.

The difference between that guy and the one above is that he's one of the first to correctly call out why The Man should be getting hot and bothered by this.

As for the other one, surely 'it will go to zero... and CRIMINALS' is so quaintly retro I can't believe the publisher bothered to entertain it. Do people actually get paid for that level of content?

They were recently asking for the passport number of the person one of their customers bought their BTC from several years ago, and it was an ATM. That pretty much says it all. I have zero idea why anyone would touch them with someone else's barge pole.

If I remember rightly BTC-e used to do this. Obviously they're quite hard to recommend these days. Other than that I've never heard of an exchange that did this. Your credit or debit card has no balance to send to. A debit card needs a bank account. A credit card bills you.

If you don't want to use Wirex then wait for a Coinbase debit card unless you're in the UK where they're available now.

Another possibility is a Paypal debit card. It allows you to spend your Paypal balance and you can withdraw to that through Coinbase. I don't know if Paypal still do them but I had one for a little while.

I have no idea why Ebay spent money on those banners. What an utter waste of time and expenditure.

At heart Ebay is an escrow service. There's no way crypto can fit comfortably into that without some very weird compromises. I don't think it's ever going to be possible for it to be a thing.

That's as maybe, but Circle.com was a superb service and support was near instant the couple of times I had a problem. It looks like they're leaving Poloniex to rot. I presume they have a grand plan that they're not rolling out until far in the future and it's effectively placeholding for now.

It looks like withdrawals were not possible yet they reopened deposits with new addresses a short time before they shut down properly. That's either incompetence or deception. Either way they've moved from innocent victim on the surface to being anuses and I hope they get nailed for it.

I'm not familiar with most of those coins, but NXT's sole purpose for the past few years seems to have been to distribute other coins and have an empty pump while they're at it. That sounds rather security-esque to me.

Am pretty amazed Poloniex is still so shit and appears to be largely unchanged since its acquisition. It doesn't reflect well on its new owners.

Was this your first complete cycle?

My second and though it's been boring there was nothing remotely worrying to me. If I had been ludicrous enough to arrive and buy $3 XRP then I'd feel very differently and I'm sure many people do. If you've seen it once the second time around seems more obvious and less alarming.

It would take sub $500 BTC to really get me hot under the collar. A monster poo is possible but the inability to believe it won't happen is also a thing.

Fact of the matter is that no matter what, this time around many, many, many more people will be watching closely for signs of life. In 2015 most had buggered off and moved on. Not so this time.

There's the non entities who signed up for Xapo because they paid the fees once upon a time, and there are Wences's mates who parked their money in his magic laptop that lives in a Swiss mountain. That's who Fidelity and Coinbase are after.

If Coinbase buy them I guess the non entities will carry on as before and be absorbed. If Fidelity buy them I presume the nobodies will be told to withdraw and not come back.

No one gives a shit about ETFs at present and no one's hanging on any decision. None of this price action has anything to do with that. At this point denials are inevitable. They'll come and go with barely a squeak. That's old hat.

An approval will be many years away, if ever.

ETH had higher fees than bitcoin for s decent stretch of time. Most of the chains that boast about capacity and low cost are empty so that will never be properly put to the test.

The wallet for peons and their custody service will be very, very different beasts. You probably get to share a hot tub with Wences when you sign up for the blue riband service.

The Gox trustee needs, like, a reason to dump.

As it stands their previous dumpage met all of their fiat liabilities. If there's to be future dumpage it'll only be for the requirements of victims who want fiat. That could still be a couple of years away before it's fully settled by the sounds of it.

Though I'm all for affordable on chain usage I do wish the coffee thing would bog off forever. It should never have popped up in the first place.

I would hope the people who were around in 2009/10/11 who came up with it recognised that the empty and effectively free chain they had was because of the luxury of their obscurity rather than the final intention.