Never go to any of the US-allied countries if you owe tax money to the US. The outcome wouldn't have been any different if he had visited Portugal or Germany instead of Spain. They caught the btc-e CEO in which country? Greece? They can get you anywhere unless you are in Russia/China.
The better solution is: don't get indebted to the US.
Al Capone couldn't get away, McAfee couldn't get away. You won't get away too.
It was a joke when I said don't go to spain. You are right, any US-allied country is dangerous if you owe tax money to the US but at the same time, non-US ally countries are as dangerous if not the most dangerous. For example, in Russia, rich people often end up dead, mostly those who go against Putin's will. Rich people's business isn't as easy as people make it sound to be, if you don't pay taxes, you have to have very good connections with top elites or you are in trouble.
Going to China is probably the safest route but there is a completely different culture, work ethic, language and people visually. Btw like you said, don't get indebted to the US and you are fine.
The problem is, people didn’t know what to do with their gains on bitcoin back in the day. We are talking about the 2013-2014 era if I am not mistaken. During those years, what was the US’ position on bitcoin? Most legal authorities didn’t know what to do with it. Coinbase (the exchange) was only 1 year old. Bitcoin itself was 5 years old. Let alone the taxman, nobody really knew shit.
This is absolutely right, my lecturer was a woman who was in charge on these things and she told me that they simply didn't know what to do with Bitcoin and in my country, for that reason, she told me that she (and her team) lets people to not pay taxes because first of all, they don't know what to do with it and second of all, if people make money, let them make money without taxing only in this case, for a while.
