german government acknowledges bitcoin as "private money"

[600watt]

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/finanzen/devisen-rohstoffe/digitale-waehrung-deutschland-erkennt-bitcoins-als-privates-geld-an-12535059.html

http://www.welt.de/finanzen/geldanlage/article119086297/Deutschland-erkennt-Bitcoin-als-privates-Geld-an.html

edit: "Digitalwährung rechtlich und steuerlich gebilligt"

"digital currency legally and fiscally accepted"


interesting !

buy german bitcoins   !

edit 2: in germany you have to pay no taxes on bitcoin price gains if you hold them longer than a year. when you are holding shares or bonds a 25 % tax has to be paid on gains.

[ElectricMucus]

It has always been that way though. (No new laws have been made.)

[600watt]

It has always been that way though. (No new laws have been made.)

yeah, we all remember the reichscoin, the rentencoin and the markcoin...

[ElectricMucus]

It has always been that way though. (No new laws have been made.)

yeah, we all remember the reichscoin, the rentencoin and the markcoin...

what?
You haven't godwinned your own thread just now?

[600watt]

It has always been that way though. (No new laws have been made.)

yeah, we all remember the reichscoin, the rentencoin and the markcoin...

what?
You haven't godwinned your own thread just now?

no, reichsmark were in place since 1924.

[ElectricMucus]

now you completely lost me.

[seldon]

Awesome news! Seems that the current election campaigns bring some good spirit with them Let's see, how it is after the elections.