Early Bitcoin Investor Charged with Tax Fraud
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An indictment was unsealed charging Roger Ver, an early investor in bitcoins, with mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns. Ver was arrested this weekend in Spain based on the U.S. criminal charges. The United States will seek Ver’s extradition to stand trial in the United States.

Fun times!

HN discussion, including poo-poohing his conviction (with 10 month prison sentence) for improperly storing and selling explosives as “just selling firecrackers”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40219555

Also Mike Hearn shows up and is topical regarding Nix:

Note that the same tactics that were used to wreck Bitcoin are now being deployed against Nix, as the open source community has struggled to learn the right lessons from Bitcoin.

  • Sailor Sega SaturnEnglish
    9•5 months ago

    Every time Roger Ver is quoted in this document is sheer comedy, but this is perhaps my favorite:

    [bitcoin wallets] were not registered to any name or associated with a tax id, and that no one, including the IRS, can freeze ones [sic] bitcoin accounts or seize ones [sic] bitcoins.

    This is in an email to his tax lawyer.

    • David GerardMAEnglish
      4•5 months ago

      “Bitcoins cannot be confiscated by the govermment!”
      (point to the millions of bitcoins confiscated by governments)
      “Bitcoins are censorship resistant”