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Re:Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP ... by energybar on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:38AM (#15980243)
Many exchanges that are crypto only don't have any KYC
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Re:Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP ... by arcticfox on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:50AM (#15980394)
The owners will get some interesting housecalls at some point, I'm sure
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Re:Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP ... by drdaeman on Thursday December 21, 2017 @03:06PM (#15982335)
What if there are no owners? AFAIK, there are protocols for atomic cross-chain trading, and there are dapps that are hosted on the blockchain itself (and are part of the chain). I think dapps have ownership, but I won't be particularly surprised to see if bazaar would be able to try something about consensus-updated codebase without explicit ownership. That could go very wrong, but nonetheless that would be interesting experiment to witness (if anyone would dare, heh). I mean, not for tax evasion purposes, but solely as a "ownerless" software development model.

Node software developers could be at risk, though.

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Re:Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP ... by toomuchtodo on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:51AM (#15980396)
They will be required to, or nation state force will be used.

An example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-15/the-final...

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