conkerspoon

Americans may be shocked to discover that given the downward trajectory of the US at the moment, for many international travellers this is yet one more reason to choose somewhere else over the US. It's hardly extreme to avoid a country that keeps providing reason after reason to avoid it.

Especially for people who have been outspoken about the US' illegal wars and various war crimes.

Love the downvotes. The current US administration is racist through and through. This kind of very broad net will be used to target undesirables... which means brown people in the eyes of the human garbage who comprise current US leadership.

The truth hurts, right America?

You forgot brown people. That's who will be targeted the most.

This kind of condescending smugness helps nobody. You'll start caring when you lose your convention industry, and American corporations find it difficult to bring the best international staff to the US (which has already begun).

Nope. In reality, the tax office comes along, demands to see the seller’s records, and if they haven’t kept comprehensive records of all transactions and the fair market value of the coins at transaction time in local currency, then they get fined, or if they’ve been actively evading tax, jailed. Plus, even if they’ve kept records perfectly, they need to get local currency at tax time in order to pay their tax bill.

Bitcoin is useless for any legitimate business. The costs of using it vastly exceed any benefits.

A lot of dopes who think they’re smarter than the tax-man because they’ve been evading taxes by using bitcoin are going to have a ‘Martin Shkreli’ moment in the next few years.

Ignoring conspiracy theory gibberish (in this case the fluoridated water rubbish) is MUCH worse than calling it out. You want HN to eventually be populated solely by ‘science proves immunization causes autism’ fruit-cakes? Then keep doing what you’re doing, which is ignoring their lunatic conspiracies and attacking anyone who calls them out with petty sanctimonious appeals to the rules.