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Re:Ohio will accept Bitcoin for corporate tax payments via B... by TekMol on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:45PM (#18528167) 

    The state is working with the cryptocurrency
    payment startup BitPay to handle its payments,
    which will convert the bitcoin to dollars.
Not sure if this really counts as 'accepting Bitcoin for tax payments'. You surely can pay in anything via a middleman, as long as the middleman sends dollars to the state?
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Re:Ohio will accept Bitcoin for corporate tax payments via B... by 27182818284 on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:59PM (#18528274)
That's a good point, and should be mentioned, but I think it is also important to remember that businesses "accept Visa for payments" via a middleman (e.g, Braintree or Stripe) and that is still considered the same as "accepting Visa" as far as the general public and shop owners are concerned.
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Re:Ohio will accept Bitcoin for corporate tax payments via B... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:04PM (#18528304)
> and that is still considered the same as "accepting Visa" as far as the general public and shop owners are concerned

Which is itself accepting a payment network’s promises to deliver bank deposits to you which are, themselves, a promise by a bank to redeem to you electronic or physical dollars. Ohio is replacing the Visa layer with a Bitcoin layer; all else is the same.

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