Where you coming from? If you're in Cali, you might catch a free ride on the hackbus!

Here is a suggestion as to how one might be able to artificially create "collectable" coins (well addresses actually) that could have their BTC value (well most of it in order to preserve the address from being pruned I guess) transferred and yet allow the receiving address to become even more valuable.

How would such a thing be possible?

Step 1) Create a vanity address that starts with 12coo1 (for example).

Step 2) For a premium over an agreed amount then owner of the "original" l12coo1 address will send the agreed amount to yours (making sure a small amount is retained in the original address to prevent it later being pruned).

Although your 12coo1 address is not the original it could be now considered "cooler" as it was the first 12coo1 address to receive coins from the original 12coo1 address (of course verifiable via the blockchain).

So now another user generates a 12coo1 address and (for a premium of course) you send coins from your 12coo1 address to theirs. Now the 3rd persons coins can be considered even more valuable as they are the 3rd in an unbroken chain of "cool" transactions to unique "cool" addresses (tracing back to the original usage of a 12coo1 address).

 

(P.S. I really do own the first and so far only used 12coo1 address - added another 0.02 BTC to show it - so am now waiting for offers from other 12coo1 creators)

Show us on the doll where the pedo police man touched you..

Unless the classification of UC⁰ --> UC¹ retains its collector value. Same would be true for UC¹ --> UC² --> UC³ --> UC⁴ iff said collector coins have not been used for any other purpose(s)--only collector to collector.

Also mint coins: M⁰ --> M¹

Then you have the taint coins: T(MBC)⁰ --> T(MBC)¹

The greatest taint set one could own now would be the BHT (Bicoinica Hat Trick): T(B1)¹, T(B2)¹ and T(B3)¹

T(MG)¹ would be a nice coin to own.

Rating the purity of tainted coins may look like this: T(87)¹ or T(92)²

~Bruno~

EDIT: The only problem I see is when the book comes out, there won't be many pictures in it. Just plain looking charts and price guides.

I appreciate the thought but I am not taking new tax clients.

My experience has been that people don't want to pay a lot of money for bad news - it's fun to argue on forums about fantasies about how getting paid in bananas or PonziCoins means that one isn't earning income, but the simple facts suggest otherwise (e.g, would you do the work if you weren't getting the bananas? are the people handing out the bananas giving them to people in proportion to the work that's done?).

Similarly, there's always some goofball who's ready to pipe up with "I've been evading taxes for years and I haven't gotten caught yet, this proves that all taxes are a giant scam!".

So I can try to get those people to pay me a reasonable hourly rate to educate them about how the tax system works - but the end result is double unhappiness on their part, once because they have to pay me and once because I tell them things they don't like (e.g, they have to pay some tax on their income). This doesn't work out so well, even though in a rational world you'd think people would prefer to pay 1X to learn how to do things right, rather than 20X to get bailed out of trouble later.

Or, they can continue living in a fantasy world until one day they get a scary letter from the IRS or their bank account is empty, and then they will call me, and they will be happy to pay me what now looks like a comparatively small fraction of the wealth that they think they're about to lose or have already lost; and when I tell them that they can keep some of their money instead of the IRS keeping all of it, that looks like good news to them, not bad news.

So, people can knock themselves out organizing their economic lives around information provided by lunatics (which are usually fantasies) or the tax authorities, which is a little like a criminal defendant getting legal advice from the prosecutor. Have a great time.

hes bipolar too

I long ago spent/sold/mixed my few 50-coin blocks unfortunately

Apparently though - the Eligius pool pays out in a special transaction type so that you can get fractional 'virginal' coins.
I don't really understand how that works - but in the armory client at least, the eligius payouts show up with a 'pick' icon to indicate this.

1) It is written in law - Ruble (fiat currency) is the only legal mean of exchange. Coinage of another currencies is prohibited.
2) There is special law about electronic money. It allows only money which are issued by some centralized authority. This way that law ties electronic money to fiat money.

Mining is coinage of alternative international currency.
And bitcoin doesn't fit to electronic money law because it doesn't have an organization responsible for emission.
This is why it is prohibited in the territory of Russia.

And we have antiterror laws which can be used against any unauthorised activity.

And we have court system, which judge 98% of cases to jailing decision (The rest of 2% is exceptions for the members of bureaucracy strata). So if you get to court you will be jailed for sure.

The only reason, why bitcoins are used in Russia - is ignorance of laws.
"If you are not catched - you are not a criminal"

That is why I am asking for i2p version of bitcoin.

Is mining illegal in Russia? why is that?

Same problem - AGAIN.

I'd like to use these guys more but every time I give them a shot they just screw up my arbitrage.

I was thinking it could be sent by courier to you.  My only concern would be cash going across border, even by courier not sure if it can be trusted.  It would be much better to send it to you from within the states, which I cannot do.  But if you can find a Canadian that lives close to the border they could cross over and send it from a courier within your country.

Another way is to get 50x of your annual expenses saved in bitcoin form. Then just sell 2% of al your bitcoins slowly every year.

Enjoy your life while you are at it. You mileage (50x and 2%) may vary.

I am not CPA, but if in the form of BTC is can't be tax cause it isn't in any formal concurrency recognized by the USA, yet transferring the funds to USD can be consider a currency exchange, or income. Yet I have yet to have any problem with this, and I have transfered a considerable amount.