I think in some US states, if a person earns less than $600 a year, they aren't required to pay income taxes. This could be an extension of that where low sums of bitcoin exchanged for fiat would not be subject to taxation.
The bill being introduced by senators from arizona and colarado could imply arizonans could have a use for this which might correlate with arizona being a state ranked with a low average cost of living within the USA. Colorado having legalized marijuana could be a motive for this push as well with their end goal possibly being weed purchasable via bitcoin/crypto. The cannabis industry is becoming a big tax revenue earner for states which makes sense for them to expand options enabling purchase of it.
Still waiting for an update on senate bill 1241 which will have an effect on bitcoin & crypto if it is passed.
"If a person earns less than $600 a year..."Really?Can anyone live one year in the USA with such a low income?Anyway,the US government will finally accept cryptocurrencies as normal currencies and this is the only good news here. People buying marijuana with cryptocurrencies-dude,this is really progressive.
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How can bitcoin mining decentralization help the average bitcoin user? Will it lower the transaction fees and increase confirmation time? I appreciate all the new ideas and efforts for improving bitcoin and the blockchain,but i don`t trust Lighning Network.There are many LN haters here and i`m one of them.
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Hi, just wondering what you guys think the november split will do to the price of BTC Core? If it's going to rise I'm going to buy in again (already own 0.933 BTC) and if not then I'll sell before long once I'm breaking even (if it gets to that point) and buy back in at the dip. Also, do you guys think BTC Cash is a good long term investment? Seeing rises of around 25% in just 2 days, quite impressive.
What happened with bitcoin core price after the bitcoin unlimited and bitcoin cash forks?Nothing. It increased.I think it will increase again after another hard fork. The bitcoin cash supply is very limited,but the BCH market is very small.A small change in BCH demand would lead to big change in BCH price.This is an obvious pump&dump,and maybe BCH miners are manipulating the price.
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So, the Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act was introduced in Congress today (September 7th, 2017). The proposed bill will make it much easier to use Bitcoin to pay for every day goods and services. https://coincenter.org/entry/reps-polis-schweikert-introduce-cryptocurrency-tax-fairness-act-in-congress"...the Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act would.... require the Treasury Department to issue guidelines for informational reporting on digital currency transactions for which capital gains is due..." This is the first time a bill has been introduced in Congress to encourage cryptocurrency’s use and, if successful, would mark a huge stepping stone for the widespread adoption of Bitcoin in businesses all over the United States. I don`t think this will make it easier to use bitcoin for day to day purchases,all they want to make it easier is to force bitcoin users and merchants to pay taxes.The US dollar is going down,and they want to reduce capital export,just like China.This isn`t encouraging cryptocurrency`s use,it`s regulating it.They should call it Tax Unfairness act,not tax fairness act.
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Perhaps this has something to do with North Korea and all the drama between USA and Kim. The US dollar value will decrease and that`s why China wants to do something to change the worlds reserve currency system.China was the biggest US debt holder and the country with the biggest US dollar reserves.The US dollar is not best option for a reserve currency anymore.
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This thread is all over the place.I see you that you are not a Segwit supporter,but what can you do to stop it? Who is Jeff Garzik?I`m sure that there will be other hard forks,but this is actually good for btc ,because all the "anti-bitcoin core" supporters will go away and the community will stay united. So you think that Segwit is just a way to destroy btc anonymouty and catch all the bitcoin owners? This is pretty interesting.
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Would you think that coinbase wallet is more secure for stock for bitcoin?
And is there any possibility to lost my btc from coinbase wallet?
There`s no possibility to lose your bitcoins,but there is a possibility that the Coinbase customer support will block your account,if you use your bitcoins for gambling and other illegal activities. I`m not a Coinbase fan,becasue i had issues with logging into my wallet around 2 years ago. Their customer support was slow,but everything was fine in the end.
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I was reading somewhere that the Tor network isn`t recommended for dealing with financial transactions and crytocurrencies,because you use other peoples IPs and they use yours(for illegal activities,maybe). Is this true?Anyway,your idea looks good and there is demand for cryptocurrency mixers(i don`t know why). Good luck with this project.
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ICO has always been a shady thing and in many jurisdictions it has always been illegal to do. China is now just catching up with the rest of the world.... like always....
you are reading up too much into a normal thing and making in big in your head.
I totally aggree with you. ICOs are an awesome idea for project developers,but from investors point of view,it`s kinda shady. What is an ICO? Project devs say,"Dive us your coins to fund our AWESOME project,and we will give you tokens." But what if there are no crypto exchange platforms that would want to accept those tokens. Their value would be zero,or close to zero.
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There are already 10 threads about this info around the forum.People should stop posting about this. This is not a reason for panic.It`s an opportunity to start buying and get some cheap bitcoins and altcoins. Anyway,it might be a disaster,if other big countries follow China and decide to ban ICOs.
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hi guys anyone here who knows why all altcoins are down?
anyone expecting bitcoin to hit 4k again?
The bitcoin price decreased with around 300 USD to 4340 USD.Why are you asking will btc hit 4k again? BTC is over 4K right now.The ICO related news from China will hit the altcoins,most likely ethereum. I don`t understand why the ICO ban causes panic selling.
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If you have such project,you should post it in the "Project development" board. I don`t think that many traders will trust enough a newbie user to give him their API keys. It doesn`t matter if it`s safe or no.You should post more detailed info about your website service and then ask for secret API keys.
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Don`t mine bitcoins,just mine altcoins and find another way to earn bitcoins. Perhaps there might be some cartell between the big miners and mining hardware companies. This is the biggest downfall of the blockchain.What if mining becomes so centralized,than only one big mining company remains and controls all the transactions?They can say "Pay 25% fees ,or we will stop mining and confirming transactions."What happens with bitcoin,if there are no transactions?
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I have been asked to join a group that does specialized real estate and is expanding fast with profits and looking at an ICO, is this a waste of my time or might there be interest? Paying about 20-30% dividend. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
20-30% dividend from real estate trading?I won`t trust such project.You should perform more research and be carefull with this.Cryptocurrenices are still far away from the real estate business because real estates are more regulated and require fiat money to pay different taxes and fees. By the way,where are you from?
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The Bitcoin Cash chain is only handling a trivial amount of transactions per day, which you can see from this chart comparing the two transaction volumes. Typical Bitcoin Cash transaction volume is about 5,000 to 20,000 transactions per day (apart from a brief spike on August 16th). Typical BTC transaction volume is about 190,000 to 320,000 transactions per day. So Bitcoin Cash's transaction volume is entirely trivial in comparison and should not be used to talk about the BTC fees, especially when there doesn't seem to be any correlation between an increase in Bitcoin Cash transaction volume and a decrease in BTC fees. Yes,but if more miners join Bitcoin cash, the BCH chain will handle more transactions. I`m not a bitcoin cash supporter,but in theory this will happen. Obviously someone is manipulating the bitcoin transaction fees with those spam attacks. Who is the manipulator?Miners ,core devs,big whales or someone else?I don`t know.
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Hurricane Harvey may solve the auto industry’s inventory problem. But right now, it's about to create a giant headache for the federal government. Based on the latest estimates from Irvine, California-based CoreLogic, insured flood losses for homes in the affected areas of Texas and Louisiana could total between $6.5 billion to $9.5 billion. Since private insurers typically don’t provide personal flood insurance, all but $500 million of that will fall to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program, or NFIP. According to the Street, if insured damages reach the high end of this range, it would totally deplete the $7.5 billion of cash and available credit available to the 49-year-old government program, which provides about 98% of residential flood insurance.
The Federal foold insurance program will get some funding from the government and the government will get some printed fiat money from the Federal reserve system.I don`t think the Flood insurance program will bankrupt.This won`t have any impact over the bitcoin price.Those disasters are a really big problem and all the countries should do something about climate change.By the way,is there any bitcoin charity fundraiser about the damages caused by Harvey?
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I've heard before of cloud mining and by the time i want to invest/buy contracts in genesismining (seems to me genesis mining is the best cloud mining there is) it turned out nothing appears but ethereum and monero contracts, are they out of stocks? why is it happening? and what other cloud mining can you suggest?
Cloud mining contracts are completely different that ethereum smart contracts. There`s no such thing as a "Bitcoin contract".I guess that you are a complete newbie here and you have to research and learn more,before you start investing into cryptocurrencies. Why do you think genesis mining is the best cloud mining?Did you read some customer reviews? Most of the online reviews are fake.
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In this phrase is how I explain Bitcoin in all senses.
"Bitcoin is the most free and pure form of a crowd-economy, free from the oppression of governments."
Free from government oppression-yes,but not free from miners,"hard fork supporters",big holders trying to manipulate the market price and "off-chain" supporters.I think the term "crowd-economy" is meaningless,what are you trying to say with this?Every economy is a "crowd economy".Obviously we need people (crowd) to have an economy.
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Over the past months/years there have being numerous statements and speculations on the digital currency “bitcoin” ,deciding its fate and on how a money that you cannot see or touch can be used for every day transaction, many countries have being calling the cryptocurrency a “Scam Coin” and that it is meaningless and pointless. Continue Reading=> https://zycrypto.com/bitcoin-scam-bitcoin-future/Between scam and "the future" ,i believe the truth is somewhere in the middle. Bitcoin is not a scam,but some greedy devs and miners might want to change bitcoin and increase their own profits scamming the millions of ordinary bitcoin users. I don`t see governments as such a big threat for btc.
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Bitcoin has never been presented as a "solution for poverty".Who is presenting it like that? Your model is wrong because there are no local currencies (crypto or fiat).Local currencies and local adoption will fail.We need nationwide or worldwide adoption,in order to be successfull. The btc price volatility will be reduced as long as there is mass adoption.
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