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About bitcoin:

Introductions

How to use bitcoins

EFF and regulations about bitcoins

  • http://sixgun.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3686 - EFF stops accepting bitcoins
  • Are bitcoins taxable - http://www.intltaxcounselors.com/blog/?p=8354
    • Liberty dollar architect imprisoned for making his own coins
      Compare this to imprissioned Liberty Dollar architect and creator, Bernard von NotHaus. He wanted a new currency backed by gold and silver. So, he started to print the coins and currency. He never claimed that they were U.S dollars.

      Would payment in his paper currency backed by his promise to redeem the currency in gold be taxable? Or is promise just that an IOU (which are not considered income when you are a cash basis taxpayer)?

      The former head of an Evansville-based company that tried to introduce a currency that competed with the U.S. dollar just as the Bitcoin.

      He was found guilty of federal charges in North Carolina. Bernard von NotHaus was convicted by a federal jury of making, possessing and selling his own coins, said Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Yes, the Government attorney said “his own coins” not U.S coins.

      Oh, yes competing with the privately owned Federal Reserve (the private bank that has been printing our currency for the last century) scares the big boys….. so off to jail if you do.

      • Bernard, as I understand it, was primarily convicted of using privately minted silver coins as “currency money”. That is passing them off as US currency, ie, “here is the new $10 silver piece” but failing to mention that it was privately minted by some company and not the U.S. Mint. Pretty easy to do when you mint coins with a dollar sign on them. Now there are a dozen versions and varieties of why he was convicted and what he did, but we believe that it was mainly because of passing off LDs as “current money”. I’m not here to discuss that one.

        Bitcoins are a digital unit, not physical cash that you could pass as current money. The “value” of a Bitcoin changes quite often and can only be found from visiting one of just a handful of private exchange web sites. It is impossible that anyone could ever confuse a non bank digital bitcoin, accessed through client software, with a dollar found in an online bank account, that, I feel is simply not possible. Bitcoin does NOT try to replace the dollar as current money.

Ways to get free bitcoins:

Mining of bitcoins:

Theft of bitcoins

Bitcoin exchange trading

Bitcoin Transactions

Discussion forums about bitcoins

Possible government regulation of bitcoins

Articles:

Drivers:

About the bitcoin flashcrash

Games and bitcoins

DNS and Bitcoins: Namecoins

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