But what if Satoshi dies and the estate has to pay taxes. There can be deemed capital gains on death and / or estate taxes depending on the jurisdiction.
If he dies in the US then he would need to pay estate taxes on the entire value of the estate (including the bitcoin). It would not pay any taxes on the capital gains. His heirs would then have a cost basis of the value of the coins at the time he died. 
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Can you pay a capital gain tax if you didn't originally invest capital? I mean Satoshi literally invented bitcoins so you couldn't say that he invested X and calculate a gain from X. If X is 0, you get "undefined".
Yes, your cost basis would be 0 so 100% of your gains would be taxed at the appropriate rate.I don't know nothing about tax laws but allow me to ask you to confirm this: if I dig a piece of capital out of my mind and then sell it I have to pay capital gains taxes on the earnings?
In any case, the poster above who pointed out that Satoshi hasn't liquidated his bitcoin seems to have a good point.
Satoshi probably has a job
I think he/she/they are smarter than that.
But what if Satoshi dies and the estate has to pay taxes. There can be deemed capital gains on death and / or estate taxes depending on the jurisdiction.
Only if he sells them, in which case we'll have a lot more to worry about than whether or not he's paying taxes.
Well, thats the implication.Drawing 70 or even 140M dollars out of the exchanges is gonna bring the price down to low double or even single digits.
So he won't sell before the market is much, much larger.
But why would he sell in any case? If you are the creator of a currency, you want your currency to be worldwide accepted so you can buy things, the final goal and fundamental use of a successful currency. So why the hell would you sell (and selling is exchanging for other currency) BTC if the rest of currencies are basically enemies to your own currency? (in this term, your creation). It's by definition stupid. If I was Satoshi, I would never sell, and do all my buying and so on with BTC, live with 100% BTC off the FIAT system. If he sells a single BTC, it means he doesn't trust BTC himself, simple as that.
In future, he could mortgage those coins and get a loan and tax deduction for interest 
He would not need to pay taxes on his bitcoin until he either sells the bitcoin or trades them for some goods or services. Until either of these happen he will not owe anything.
Also his cost basis is likely very close to zero as this was the value of bitcoin when he mined the coins he mined
Also his cost basis is likely very close to zero as this was the value of bitcoin when he mined the coins he mined
Pretty much impossible for him to unload ALL his btc, at a good price currently. If he did that now, the price would plummet, not enough funds to fulfill all his orders, he couldn't get it out. He has bigger problems than taxes, how much would the taxes be anyways?
Satoshi will never mass dump his coins, just like central banks will never mass dump their gold reserve (which will most likely crash the gold price to double digits). It never hurts to hold lots of asset which do not have any use, as long as the life can be enjoyed
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What happens if Satoshi has to pay taxes?
Satoshi probably has a job and pays taxes like everyone else? duh?lol 
Can you pay a capital gain tax if you didn't originally invest capital? I mean Satoshi literally invented bitcoins so you couldn't say that he invested X and calculate a gain from X. If X is 0, you get "undefined".
Yes, your cost basis would be 0 so 100% of your gains would be taxed at the appropriate rate.now we know the reason why satoshi wants to stay anon.
100% of nearly 1 million btc is alot of tax money.
Can you pay a capital gain tax if you didn't originally invest capital? I mean Satoshi literally invented bitcoins so you couldn't say that he invested X and calculate a gain from X. If X is 0, you get "undefined".
Yes, your cost basis would be 0 so 100% of your gains would be taxed at the appropriate rate. 
I always thought you only have to pay after you sell the property for cash.
It is obvious you cannot pay tax from unrealized gain. What if you forgot or lost password. ... maybe you will remember it some time, maybe not ... maybe hacker will stole it.
Can you pay a capital gain tax if you didn't originally invest capital? I mean Satoshi literally invented bitcoins so you couldn't say that he invested X and calculate a gain from X. If X is 0, you get "undefined".
I always thought you only have to pay after you sell the property for cash.
1) if you exchange 1000 Zimbabwe dollars(ZD) for $10 USD and then suddenly ZD crash to 100,000 ZD = $10 USD
Do you have to pay tax from capital gain 99,000 ZD ?
2) you buy a plot for $100 and then you find out there is oil / gold ...
Now this plot is worth $1,000,000
Do you have to pay tax from capital gain if you did not sell oil, gold nor property ?
Do you have to pay tax from capital gain 99,000 ZD ?
2) you buy a plot for $100 and then you find out there is oil / gold ...
Now this plot is worth $1,000,000
Do you have to pay tax from capital gain if you did not sell oil, gold nor property ?
What I know, you don't need to give long term Capital Gain Taxes till you sell.
So it's notional profit for him, till he is holding, when he will going to sell then he need to give long term Capital Gain Taxes.
So it's notional profit for him, till he is holding, when he will going to sell then he need to give long term Capital Gain Taxes.
Chuck Norris is Satoshi. any questions?
Nope ...
You might want to double check that. Bitcoin is treated as a currency in quite a couple of countries.
Any of those countries also do have US IRS? Right, they do not. If Satoshi is a very unlucky person to live in such an imaginary country where both bitcoin is treated as a currency and tax laws are as idiotic as in US, then well, he could easily move, paying well under a million dollars for a citizenship of one of numerous tax haven countries. Problem solved.
And ok, you seem to assume it cant be a problem, so yes, you can ignore the "if" if you want to.
And yes, you can also assume you can retroactivly ignore taxes by switching citizenship if you want to. In that case you dont even have to further contribute to this thread.
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