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1  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Who is buying Bitcoin? Why do they buy it? on: May 26, 2011, 04:32:25 PM
The reasons to buy/use Bitcoins are many, but the opportunity to trade OUTSIDE the Federal Reserve system, and perhaps your country's central bank too (quite possibly hastening its demise), and its associated tax is probably one of the greatest reasons.  What I'm saying is, once you dig into it, you will discover the US Federal Income Tax is an excise on banking within the Federal Reserve System.  From a legal standpoint, bitcoins are not "income" under the Revenue Acts of the United States.  Unless of course you consent to consider them income; in this day of heavy conditioning (brainwashing), that's always an option.  I asked a tax attorney about bitcoin and he said they were "includible" in gross income.  I then said "oh, I can include them if I choose to."  And he just laughed at that.  My interpretation is... gotcha.

http://savingtosuitorsclub.net/showthread.php?145-Exactly-what-does-the-IRS-agent-think
http://losthorizons.com/CtCforFree.pdf

Of course, have 100 bitcoins in your account is meaningless, but the moment you sell those 100 bitcoins for $800 you have to report that.  Having bitcoins is like having 100 jpgs or 100 bookmarks, you don't report jpgs on your taxes even though they may have value, but if you sell them then you report that, same thing.

well, you can buy bit coins, to startup the system, bring the coins to your location ... once you have that, and enough local business and people are accepting them, you can start circulating it and avoiding taxes
2  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Who is buying Bitcoin? Why do they buy it? on: May 26, 2011, 02:41:39 PM
Well, i see some reasons:

1) people expect it to achieve greater value in the future
2) you might want to make it circulate so that it makes bitCoin an important coin, making it last forever
3) you might be from some other country and might want to by something from accross the sea ... instead of buyin dollars, you can buy bit coins (that's what i am gonna do)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~In that case when I sell them Bitcoin, I got their money, I will have to transfer to USD my self?

4) this might be your business, to buy bitcoins to sell them to other people who need/want them (for any reason)
Well, not exactly ... if i find someone in my country who deal with foreign bitcoin seller, he will buy, so he will transfer the USD, then i will buy from him using my countrie's money, then i can buy from any store across the sea without ever buying dollars.

If bit coin really catches on on every country, that store can buy something accross seas again from my country, therefore, there will be, again,  bitcoins here so that i can purchase (or trade for goods and services)
3  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Who is buying Bitcoin? Why do they buy it? on: May 26, 2011, 02:18:59 PM
Well, i see some reasons:

1) people expect it to achieve greater value in the future
2) you might want to make it circulate so that it makes bitCoin an important coin, making it last forever
3) you might be from some other country and might want to by something from accross the sea ... instead of buyin dollars, you can buy bit coins (that's what i am gonna do)
4) this might be your business, to buy bitcoins to sell them to other people who need/want them (for any reason)
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