TL;DR
The US Federal Government among others appear to own any and all development and coins held and which have been held by Dan Metcalf since January 28, 2014 according to public records.----------------------
Does a US Federal and State Tax Liens Threaten the Ownership of Blocknet and all its holdings?
I believe so and I am sure the Feds believe so as well. They tend to sieze all first and ask questions later. Just ask SR 1 & 2.
If all coins were seized, which I would believe bank accts have already been seized.
The lien clearly states:
As provided by section 6321, 6322, and 6323 if the Internal Revenue Service Code, we are giving a notice that taxes (including interest and penalties) have been assessed against the following-named taxpayer. We have made a demand for payment of this liability, but it remains unpaid. Therefore,
there is a lien in favor of the United States on all property and rights to property belonging to this taxpayer for the amount of taxes, and additional penalties, interest, and costs that may accrue.*I redacted out his spouse's name and address of the rental home it was sent to.
One might argue that the lien amount is not as much as the total value of the coins held currently.
True, but as history has shown they tend to seize everything until it is heard in court.
If that happens then by the time the court case was heard the coins value would have dropped to nil imo.
This also does not include the liens held by the state regarding state income taxes and property taxes along with other creditors.
And I am sure they are going to love the $20,000+ paid to coders on elance.com
This type of activity seems to be a constant issue in this individuals history for around 10 years at least.
Consistently not paying federal, state and property taxes.
The state seems to have seized his home before the feds could get to it.
If he does not believe in paying taxes (16th amendment, sovereign man) more power to him, but
when you know you have a federal tax lien and other liens issued against you knowing that they claim anything and everything until it is paid and you choose to take innocent peoples money and risk it all is revolting.
No paid services were used to glean this information. It took less than 10-15 minutes to find this info. And this was after seeing a 2nd dui arrest (which he was found not guilty for) through a simple google search. I have no idea about the first dui arrest or any other criminal arrests. The fact that he has gone public with his identity around 5 months ago, at which time all of this info was readily available.
And no one, out of all the pages within the threads of both xc and block, all the different coin communities involved with block, all the coin reviews and exchanges, saw this?
Regarding CoinsSource POD (proof of dung?), I saw where they were questioned about researching Dan after they made a comment regarding Dan being an reputable business owner. They said they stood by their comment. Reputable and having a reputation are two different things. The first business I see of his was shut down due to court order according to records. The latest business seems to have multiple family members as signatories. I'm not here to speculate why.
I guess I should start contracting out my services. To paraphrase Dan, "I need to feed my family".
I see no releases of the liens generated by the IRS and state on record. I can provide a much more detailed report with all pertinent documents, but I am not being paid to do so. I have no reason to lie. I was not invested in any of the coins in the network. I ran across the original prom chatlog and took an interest. Simple as that. This complete post is my opinion from reviewing the instruments found of record.
Will the exchanges lock accounts now? Are they required to by law? Or will their legal teams advise them to do so as a precaution?