I feel that we all have an obligation to report illegal activity
So, have you reported the vast majority of the bitcoin community for not paying Capital Gains tax when they cash out bitcoins for a profit, then?
Any time I see illegal activity on this forum I report it immediately. I personally prevented a user here named Dank from starting a business to sell illegal drug paraphernalia and just yesterday reported to the proper authorities a user here who was impersonating a federal enforcement officer.
Have you, in fact, reported the financial gains you've made through bitcoin?
Of course I have. What possible reason would I have to avoid doing so? I have a succesful business in the fiat world as well and I have no intention of risking everything I have built by evading taxes.
The legal risks of evasion are not even my chief concern. Paying taxes is our patriotic duty to our nation without which we could not have built our great successes.
I disagree with this statement wholeheartedly, BTW. Hence my "runaway slave" analogy. Securities laws are bad laws that enslave people by forcing them to take actions they do not desire. Assisting in jailing people who ignore bad laws is the immoral act, IMO.
But again, we are not dealing with runaway slaves. The law is against slavery just like it is against scamming people with unregulated exchanges.
Again, to whom did he blow the whistle? Where is any implication of whistle blowing on his part?
The whole dispute centers on his decision to contact legal authorities and his conflict with the other members of his criminal enterprise who did not want this to happen. The parties who had the whistle blown on them have been quite loud about how upset it made them that the whistleblowing prevented them from dumping the stock on the forum before everyone here knew it was worthless.
