I see that several governments are charging or thinking of charging tax on Bitcoin gains. I know that in the domain name industry several registrars and domain name sellers accept Bitcoin as a payment method. I am one one of them, and I am far from unique. I'm thinking of quoting domain name prices in Bitcoin to remove the currency equivalent. So that raises two questions. Will this help the buyer to save tax? Is this an incentive to buyers to switch investments from one appreciating asset into another?

You probably have to pay tax based on the value of the car.

It's more interesting if you buy a Britannia gold coin. There is no VAT or CGT on that, and it has a nominal value of £100, but you will probably have to pay around £1,000 for one.
https://www.royalmintbullion.com/Products/Britannia/Gold/UKB18GOS

It is really time that the US realised that all these embargoes and bans hurt the US, and build the competition. The US is becoming a fairly minor player in world affairs, and it is obvious the the Deep State plans are to move major world influence away from the west, and towards China and Asia. They have virtually lost the Petro-Dollar, which is being replaced by the Petro-Yuan and the Petro-Ruble. Banking embargoes created a new Asian money transfer system, and a new "world" bank. ACH is probably dead now, but it was never really any use to those of us outside the US anyway.

An unopened boxed item can still be "new", even if it was created years ago.

Increasing blocksize is the wrong thng to do in my opinion.

Alternative coins are beneficial for Bitcoin, hopefully they will remove all the dust services like faucets, micro-gambling and scammy/spammy sig campaigns. This will allow Bitcoin to get on with its real purpose, whch is a store of wealth.

Really bad news. With a futures market set up to distort prices, and the globalist organisations talking about accepting Bitcoin, and probably not paying it out. It looks as if the Deep State is hoping to render Bitcoin unusable by removing most of the coins from the market. However, it will leave the way open for other cryptos to become trading coins, whlst Bitcoin will be the gold standard and a store of wealth.

Thanks for the comment. It's all a fair bit of work for very little benefit. I'm coming to the conclusion that it's better to just post my own comments from alter egos. I installed OS ticket to centralise my email contacts. I've got about a dozen domain name sales sites that I'm putting together, and it has made it easier to monitor and to avoid spam. I'm tempted to do the same thing with site registrations. I guessit depends on whether surfers will bother to sign up via a ticket site.

All this doom and gloom about public WiFi makes me laugh. If you use Windows with Cortana, you have a much greater risk of having your data recorded.
Do you use a contactless credit card?  - people can steal your money while they stand next to you in a queue if you do. Got bluetooth or WiFi on your mobile, then thaty's another way in, and how about near field communications. If you run a core node, and you manage your wallet(s) sensibly, then there is no way that you are more at risk on public WiFi, unless you use cloud services of course.

Maybe we should produce a guide for business people on the move.

It isn't only this forum that is being hit by ref link spammers looking for Bitcoin rewards. If I put a forum or a site with a guestbook onto a new domain with "bit" "bitcoin" or "crypto" in the name, then it only seems to take a few hours for the spammers to start to try to register. They never include any details in their application, and I end up having to suspend them on sight. In fact in most cases, I have disabled registration. I'm thinking of having one central registration domain, and insist that details are provided. Captcha doesn't help as the applications seem to be manual, and usually with foreign names or spammer's country based email addresses.

It must be soul destroying work submitting these applications, and following them with spam posts. The returns must be really low, as the generated traffic must be rubbish.

Thanks, I didn't realise that, and it seems most of the sig spammers don't either. Is there a chance that speculation can be moved from the discussion board then? Especially the over bloated threads with big bumpers.

Most of the threads on the discussion board seem to be newbie speculation threads.  How about creating a speculation board, and all those mega-reply spamming threads could be moved onto that. This may provide room for some decent discussions about Bitcoin.

The real problem with these threads is not just the possibility of mindless alt-english replies, but the fact that the poster can start a similar thread by copying one of the previous replies, and everybody can pitch into that with their same tired old meaningless replies. You can end up with 9 or 10 real threads on page 1, and a load of bumped clone threads.

Alterntively, you could use the existing software to run a pruned node.

Sounds like a good name for a restricted access board here on Bitcoin Talk.

I'm concerned about the world situation, and the dramatic changes that are going on at the moment. There is a growing awareness that the creeping globalism needs to be reversed. The damage done at local levels by people like Obama, Tony Blair, Maduro, Merkel and others, and the shift away from bankers and corporations should be discussed. Bitcoin is one of the central influences, and the forks and parallel coins are worthy of research. The proposed government copies like the Petro will obviously have an influence on Bitcoin. It would be great if we could discuss these things in an adult fashion somewhere.

There are various other techical issues that are emerging. The increase in the value of Bitcoin is putting temptation in the way of the exchanges and wallet providers, and this will probably result in more genuine and fake hacking thefts. I feel that at some time in the future a cross chain facility will be added to some of the primary blockchain based currencies, and this will remove the need for these exchanges. This type of topic is another that could be discussed productively on Bitcoin Talk.

Thanks for the kind words, and of course I'll look in, there are some great threads here. Unfortunately, it's a real struggle to find them, and often they are diluted with trivial replies. Merging all the threads such as "what is Bitcoin to you", " Bitcoin will replace banks/PayPal", "Bitcoin is a ponzi", " should I sell the dog to buy Bitcoin" would consolidate half of the first page.

It is with great sadness that I am having to look for another forum to discuss Bitcoin. This isn't an "I'm leaving bitcoin talk" thread, as Bitcoin Talk has been good to me, and there are some great and knowledgeable people here. It's just that it is impossible to maintain a decent discussion about Bitcoin and its uses. Any thread in the discussion forum is shoved down onto page 3+ within an hour or so by posters in the completely useless mega-thousand replies threads. Examples are the " will Bitcoin replace banks" threads - anyone with half a brain will know that they won't, banks will continue to evolve and will stay with us. So why does it take mega-thousands of replies to keep bumping these threads?

I was interested to hear other peoples views on the arrest threats for Bitcoin miners in Venezuela, but my thread has sunk into the mud of the sig spammers flotsam. Please can we have a board where members can discuss sensible issues, and not things like "would you sell your mother/dog/pram for Bitcoin.

 On Tuesday, December 13, officers from the Lara State Police Force raided a warehouse in Barquisimeto with 21 cryptocurrency mining machines.

According to information published by the journalist Marlyn Silva in El Impulso , each machine is valued at $ 7,000 and presumably belong to the lawyer Daniel Andrés Di Bartolomeo Viloria, who left the country before the execution of the procedure.

The director of security and public order Lara, Kleider Ferreiro, reported that the crimes committed in this case are "money laundering, illicit enrichment, cybercrime, financing of terrorism, exchange fraud and damage to the national electricity system."

https://maduradas.com/atencion-polilara-quien-mine-criptomonedas-comete-ilicitos-cambiarios-y-va-a-la-carcel/

Well I refuse to use Starbucks or their associated companies because of the open support for the Deep State. It seems a pretty stupid thing to do if it is Starbucks that is doing it.  They won't be doing it for the money if they are, they will be mining Bitcoin to remove it from the market to destabilise Bitcoin. This would appear to be the new game they are playing with Amazon, Ebay and other globalist organisations joining in the Bitcoin extraction.

Whilst it is true that they use a third party to manage their WiFi, all of these "free" WiFi providers start you off with a splash page, and that would be where the malware could be activated. I've installed Wireshark, and I really must start to explore the activities of the Internet majors. Microsoft Cortana is one major threat, and a lot of the cloud services appear to be suspect.

My cost for registering a new .website name is $1.09, and I don't think I would have picked it up if I had seen it. I'm cautious of it for 2 reasons - It is a plural, and I think that diminishes the value for Bitcoin, and I don't like the website extension - for me it is pretty meaningless. I'm backing away from virtually all extensions apart from .com at the moment. It took me a month to decide to renew english.gold, and "english gold" is quite a good search phrase. Google search trends has more or less flatlined "bitcoins website".

BitcoinUpgraded.com dropped last night, but somebody has already grabbed that, but it shows that there are still some reasonable Bitcoin .coms to be found.