And if you mined then sold bitcoin face-to-face, the IRS wouldn't know.
You guys don't think.
Someone down the line of the coin's history won't be anonymous, then they are culpable for all activities on the coin unless they can provide the identities of whom they bought from and sold to. This will cascade right back to you the miner.
If they don't know your wallet, the information about someone down the chain won't help them.
You missed my point. The person whose identity they do know any where down the chain, is in deep shit until they can provide the upstream and downstream name who they bought from and sold to. Then when they help the IRS to identify those, then ditto for those people and so on, until it reaches back to you.
Now if you were careful in the past, you might remain anonymous, but don't forget the NSA is storing all the data and it is very likely you have leaked your identity in a cookie in a Google ad, in a VPN that is a honeypot, in Tor exit node that is a honeypot, in timing analysis in Tor, in a firefox exploit in Tor, etc...
And in the future, no one who can surely be 100% reliably anonymous will accept payment from you if you don't provide your identity.
I will accept them. I'll just spend them when I'm living in another country. All the IRS can do now is drive bitcoins out of the country. That is no benefit to them.
G20 is talking FATCA compliance. China has just chimed in with compliance measure to track all identities. The rest of the world will fall to its knees to the USA, because the QE has been ending up in the developing world as dollar bond issues. They have massive dollar debt now, and as the global debt implosion proceeds (circa 2016 for the next leg down, we are in a dead-cat bounce right now which is why gold and silver corrected) the world's capital will run into the reserve currency (the dollar) and to lesser extent the next reserve currency (the yuan). The developing countries will have a crisis with their FX rates plummeting, exodus of dollars, and huge loan servicing in dollars which are getting more expensive to them relative to their local currencies. India in August was experiencing this, and they have bought some respite by installing an IMF central bank head, but this is just part of the plan to destroy India. Next leg down coming 2016ish.
The NWO was planned very well by the elite.
You all are just not seeing the big picture.
Once the IRS starts attacking, no one will accept or sell coins without knowing the identity of the counter-party.
The government is sitting back letting the wildwest go on so as to let electronic money become popular. Then they will crack their whip and it will done. There will be no difference between Bitcoin and 666. Everything is on the public ledger. Much worse than cash.
Despite what you say, they weren't able to do anything to Edward Snowden, so I think it is not too late yet. Though I agree that anonymity of Bitcoin is a myth. Was trying to explain this to one of the converts here, but to no avail...
Don't you know what Russia does to anyone who exposes the corruption in Russia, see the poisoning of
Litvinenko.
Do you think we will have free markets if we depend on the mafia who run Russia? Also Russia is going bankrupt.
lol. Oh I do pay my taxes, I don't always like how it gets used, but I pay my share. And if I do turn some back into dollars I will pay capitol gains. At least I won't have to pay as mus as I do for the money I earn by working.
I promise I will not bring up your post at my trial either.
And when those tax rates become unreasonable, i.e. 90% or even 200%?
Revolution and war, except the unemployed masses won't be on your side. To be safe, you must also suck the tit of the government. And then we head for the Hitler outcome of culling the weak to pay for the Tragedy of the Commons.
Some interesting sh8t coming...prepare your popcorn...