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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by ggm on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:17PM (#23148470)
I put $200 in, and pulled $600 out, and bought my Pixel XL on it. The entire time (6-12 months) I regarded it as a learning exercise in gambling, post-hoc reasoning about value, addictive behaviour, speculation.

I was unable to buy the pixel in bitcoin, I wish I had been able to. The fragments left behind I donated to charities online (the FreeBSD foundation)

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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by person_of_color on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:00AM (#23151558)
You forgot to pay tax on your profit.
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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by ggm on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @06:14AM (#23152391)
No I didn't. I declared it and showed all transactions and my accountant factored it into my tax return. I kept a diary of all transactions. Casual Bitcoin with no intent to derive a long-term investment income and for sums below 1,000 do not necessarily incur capital gains tax. If you used 'know your customer' aware FinTech it's next to impossible to hide income from the ATO these days in australia and that's not a bad thing either.
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