As we know, Buysellbitco.in has halted trade after ED's raid and so did Unocoin. After week or two Unocoin taking things in hand decided to go live and buysellbitco.in not. Why is the difference amount Bitcoin enthusiast? Isn't there unity among people here? Seems like fork has already formed when BAI came into existence. What is the status of Indian community according to you?
Why do u ask such controversial questions ? See what is going on here =>
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=369278.60Has not buysellbitco.in resumed operation yet ? I can see Mahin Gupta is back to the forum for.............
Hi,
I am on forums, but generally do not speak a lot nowdays... If you have any specific questions you can always PM me or send an email to
[email protected]We have not resumed operations for the same reason where we suspended it, its still not clear if transacting Bitcoin and allowing people to buy and sell bitcoins requires any registrations or approvals. RBI stand is still not changed and so ours.
Also to the OP : We have not suspended business after raids. We suspended it before raids and it was due to RBI circular and not raids
As far as I understand holding Bitcoin, mining Bitcoin does not have any issue at this moment as long as you are declaring it in your assets and filling your tax papers clearly.
Person to person ( peer to peer personal trades ) buy and sell should be fine if you know the person personally, have meet him and and can produce KYC and source of your Bitcoin/INR and have sufficient knowledge of their source of Bitcoin/INR, and your transaction is completed using bank accounts. Why you need to do so much if its just barter ? Well you don't know yet if this is classified as barter or regulated transaction. So better be prepared with everything you can produce. The best thing in peer to peer will be you will exactly knowing what you are doing and with whom you are doing and your transaction volume most probably will be very small.
Running a business where you allow buy and sell is altogether different thing. You dont even know that you are being classified as commodity exchanger and you must have registration and approval from FMC or may be you need AD or FFMC or ME registration. Even if you are doing everything correct, you dont even know that your compliance officer must file STR with FIU. The issue is that without clear guidelines you dont even know that you are supposed to file STR.
Please dont give arguments like there is no law for Bitcoin and they can not charge you with anything. You can say that their classification of Bitcoin and its transactions with existing laws will not hold in court, and you may be very right. But you have to understand a very important thing.
Be sure you understand the risk and utter unfairness though. If regulators are "wrong" they don't lose anything (except some taxpayer money). They either write some new guidance, amendment, circular or they ask parliament/ministry to pass some new laws/ruling because current ones don't cover virtual currencies. If you are "wrong" then you potentially could lose everything, your savings, your livelihood, your good name, even your freedom. Eventually most of these issues will end up in court but there is no real case law on Bitcoin or virtual currencies yet. In thirty or forty years this will be old news (like all the regulatory and legal issues related to non-bank entities and credit cards are now). Bitcoin isn't just cutting edge technology it is cutting edge application of law and that means risk, complexity, and uncertainty.
DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A LAWYER. THE ABOVE POST IS INFORMATIONAL ONLY AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS LEGAL ADVISE. IF YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC QUESTION ABOUT YOUR ACTIVITY YOU SHOULD RETAIN INDEPENDENT LEGAL ADVISER.
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