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Topic: Is it legal to earn and hold bitcoin ? (Read 5912 times)

hero member
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July 26, 2016, 10:14:00 PM
I am not sure what is the exact scenario in my country as I have never heard that it is banned or illegal but people are using it and I am using it too as there is no official announcement yet.
I think you're free to do anything with your bitcoin although states prohibit the use cryptocurrency. bitcoin is anonymous so if you're smart and clean government will not be able to see you. and you can use bitcoin freely. I was using bitcoin despite my country banned bitcoin
full member
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I am not sure what is the exact scenario in my country as I have never heard that it is banned or illegal but people are using it and I am using it too as there is no official announcement yet.
yeah i think it's okay to hold and use bitcoin although the country prohibit. they will not be able to do anything to you. they have no evidence
yes that is a fact.that if your country allow you hold or do trade in bitcoin then there no problem and if they do not allow you i think then it will be not good in your favour. so be careful then.
legendary
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I am not sure what is the exact scenario in my country as I have never heard that it is banned or illegal but people are using it and I am using it too as there is no official announcement yet.

that's right. many countries have not yet had any stance about bitcoin. and i think it is mostly because bitcoin is not being used that much in many countries.

but one thing is for sure, if you are earning bitcoin through an illegal channel and holding it that is still illegal any place in the world and it doesn't matter what rules they have.
sr. member
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I am not sure what is the exact scenario in my country as I have never heard that it is banned or illegal but people are using it and I am using it too as there is no official announcement yet.
yeah i think it's okay to hold and use bitcoin although the country prohibit. they will not be able to do anything to you. they have no evidence
newbie
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As i am from country where bitcoin is stated to be a illegal currency so, its ok to earn form small services and signature campaign here and hold my bitcoins ?
I need some suggestions ?
I love bitcoin and i can't leave it !
You can do everything you want. Governments can't hold bitcoin and its system.. bitcoin is completely anonymous and no one can trace you.
so in short words yes you can earn and you can hold your bitcoin for long time . and your bitcoins will be safe until you protect the private keys. and don't leak them.
Even I am sure that You can't only hold bitcoin and store bitcoin. but you can easily exchange it and convert it to fiat and use it to buy everything you want. just create a paypal or Perfectmoney and contact a trader who can buy your bitcoin.
but stay anonymous for be safe.
hero member
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I am not sure what is the exact scenario in my country as I have never heard that it is banned or illegal but people are using it and I am using it too as there is no official announcement yet.
copper member
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I think it depends on what country if it is legal to earn and hold bitcoin.  In my country Bitcoin is legal but not regulated.  It means earning and holding it will not result in any issue or problem.  Some country plainly ban bitcoin. Other is more strict with  bitcoin.
legendary
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Here it's not accepted as a currency but some big businesses that grew out of bitcoin are taking that decision to court and try to get it accepted.
But there is nothing illegal about holding and earning bitcoins here, it's just that our government doesn't add value to it.

Not sure where you live but the government here does care about you and your Bitcoin holdings. They want you to declare every single Satoshi that you have, and also every single bit of profit that you make. All this to make you pay tax in order to create a new revenue stream for the government.
sr. member
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Here it's not accepted as a currency but some big businesses that grew out of bitcoin are taking that decision to court and try to get it accepted.
But there is nothing illegal about holding and earning bitcoins here, it's just that our government doesn't add value to it.
full member
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It is 100% legit and safe to earn and hold your coins unless you are yourself involved in something fishy which your governments won't allow, like selling black market things.

it's not like that, in a few countrys is illegal.
OP need to search about his country's laws, or just hold some coins in some place without identification.
ya and i am thinking that yet most of the countries have not such statement about bitcoin that either it is legal there or not. therefore it may be legal there to earn or use bitcion. or even to hold it.
sr. member
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It is 100% legit and safe to earn and hold your coins unless you are yourself involved in something fishy which your governments won't allow, like selling black market things.

it's not like that, in a few countrys is illegal.
OP need to search about his country's laws, or just hold some coins in some place without identification.
legendary
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It is 100% legit and safe to earn and hold your coins unless you are yourself involved in something fishy which your governments won't allow, like selling black market things.
newbie
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Government in my country has no rules for regulating bitcoins yet. Until and unless you convert bitcoins into fiat, nobody cares what you are doing with them. Though use of bitcoin is criticized by it.
hero member
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off course it is and also how could any one know unless you told them that you own bitcoin?
hero member
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Earn, hold and exchange the BTC to your currency and send that to your bank account you have in your country. A lot can be done. Using BTC is not an illegal act as like other currencies. Exchange the BTC to your currency and use them.

Yeah, we can do anything with our bitcoins which we want, with bitcoin we are completely free ,we have to use them with freedom, we are the owners of our bitcoins and no one can restrict its use on us.
sr. member
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Bitcoin is totally legal in more than 90% of the countries of the whole world. Even if its not legal in your specific country OP you can always hold the coins in a desktop wallet and you can use a VPN to use a different IP every time you are sending the coins. I think its ok to use the IP of your country when receiving the bitcoin as I think its hard to track the IP of the receiving person. I know that the starting point IP of the transaction can be tracked thats why I say to use a VPN when sending bitcoins. You should be safe. No country should give us limitations, bitcoin is created for this thing in the first place, decentralized p2p currency.
hero member
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For OP, yes, it is legal to earn and hold Bitcoin in most countries, however I'm not sure whether or not it is legal in your specific country. Some countries don't allow for Bitcoin to move value out of the country (Iceland is one notable example) but they allow for Bitcoin to exist within its borders, with some restrictions.

Earn, hold and exchange the BTC to your currency and send that to your bank account you have in your country. A lot can be done. Using BTC alone can be illegal. But using your own currency is not. Exchange the BTC to your currency and use them.
I can't think of any instances where the user of Bitcoin at its core is illegal, but I guess it could be a thing.
According to coindesk, the only countries that seem to have bitcoins banned are Bolivia, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam and just what you said, Iceland.
Other than that, bitcoins are legal to be used and held unless of course your state/region/place has it's own rules or laws about it.
legendary
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bitcoin is not under government, and does not have a legal entity. so you are legal to hold bitcoin as much as possible, and on the state you consider that bitcoin is illegal, it's not a big problem, because you are not using bitcoin to transactions in real.
sr. member
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It's illegal to hold it & earn it if it's BTC is illegal in your country, what question is that? If it's stated that it's illegal to have BTC, then it is. I have absolutely no idea how they can find those using BTC, but you better not risk doing it.
yes that is a fact. that such countries where bitcoin is banned and consider as illegal. so there earning and holding of bitocin is illegal. but we can see alo of people who are still using it.
legendary
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It's illegal to hold it & earn it if it's BTC is illegal in your country, what question is that? If it's stated that it's illegal to have BTC, then it is. I have absolutely no idea how they can find those using BTC, but you better not risk doing it.
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