Re: [NetBehaviour] Bitcoin arrest Australia

[Rob Myers]

On 2015-12-10 06:34, Martin Zeilinger wrote:

Hi Dave,
I wasn't aware that Steven Wright was arrested, just that his home was
raided. What I found interesting about that is that the raid seems to
in response to his position that cryptocurrency should be treated as a
proper currency for tax purposes, rather than as a taxable intangible
asset.


If they are looking for Satoshi then, like the doxxers at Gawker and 
Conde Nast, they are probably looking in the wrong place -


http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-probably-backdated-and-point-to-a-hoax

- Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Bitcoin arrest Australia

[Martin Zeilinger]

Hi Dave,
I wasn't aware that Steven Wright was arrested, just that his home was
raided. What I found interesting about that is that the raid seems to in
response to his position that cryptocurrency should be treated as a proper
currency for tax purposes, rather than as a taxable intangible asset.
Cheers,
Martin
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Bitcoin arrest Australia

[dave miller]

Even if he is the inventor of Bitcoin, actually raiding his home is
shocking.

It's not as though Bitcoin itself is something evil, it's another networked
technology, and raiding the home of the inventor is weird. Could you
imagine Tim Berners Lee's home being raided because of the content of
websites? Or Edison's house because his light bulbs illuminated criminals
houses?

Maybe there's something else about Steve Wright we don't hear about?

Or maybe it's about what Bitcoin represents? Perhaps the banks &
governments fear the rise of Bitcoin so much, that they intend to demonise/
outlaw it?

dave

On 10 December 2015 at 14:34, Martin Zeilinger  wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> I wasn't aware that Steven Wright was arrested, just that his home was
> raided. What I found interesting about that is that the raid seems to in
> response to his position that cryptocurrency should be treated as a proper
> currency for tax purposes, rather than as a taxable intangible asset.
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
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