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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by GizmoSwan on Monday February 08, 2021 @10:37AM (#26065894)
To an unbanked! person in Los Angeles? In a black market?

It is taxable in your hand as well as theirs. So any tax avoidance agenda makes the trade illegal.

Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by byerobh on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:05AM (#26066298)
Lol and who will punish it? Love this thing, might be the thing that saves the world from collectivists.
Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by GizmoSwan on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:14AM (#26066418)
Participating in illegal activities does not make the coin more valuable but rather makes illegal transactions possible and criminalized the bit coin trade and hence soon it will become regulated.

So it is not like a bank transfer which is legit.

Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by byerobh on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:28AM (#26066585)
Your first statement is flat out wrong. Illegality is actually a driver of prices in all sorts of activity. See drug prices now, alcohol during the Prohibition. (Also, and this is more of a style and culture matter, learn about run-on sentences. They're one of those things that got cut in us-landia colleges.)

Obviously, it is "not like a bank transfer". Then again, that you personally have never seen anything like it, makes no difference in its actual legitimacy or usefulness as a medium of transaction.