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From Twitter: Ethereum Comes Out As Commie
2017-11-15



This is why I'm not a techno-utopian like so many spergatarians are.

The people who are bringing "paradise" to us can't be trusted.
Posted by:charger

#7  That means every transaction (say, to pay for lunch) is a taxable event, with a capital gain or loss to be declared on your tax return.

That's the way I've been treating it on tax returns, even though I don't get a 1099-B like you would with a normal stock transaction. That may have changed since 2015, though.
Posted by: Raj   2017-11-15 11:39  

#6  Worse, the feds have decided that Ethereum, Bitcoin, and other crypto “currencies” are actually securities. That means every transaction (say, to pay for lunch) is a taxable event, with a capital gain or loss to be declared on your tax return.
Posted by: KBK   2017-11-15 10:06  

#5  I've never trusted cryto-currency but then I don't trust the Federal Reserve either. I do like the idea of bypassing the Fed with cryto-currency but the kinks don't seem to have been worked out. Speculative swings and hacking among other things.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-11-15 09:16  

#4  I wonder will investors...
Lose faith in Blockchain for a bit
OR
Rotate out of Etherium (forever it won't recover from this) and into Bitcoin
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-11-15 06:45  

#3  From Infogalactic

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality.

It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes.

Ethereum also provides a cryptocurrency token called "ether", which can be transferred between accounts and used to compensate participant nodes for computations performed.


The founder, Vitalik Buterin, is no prize , either.
Posted by: charger   2017-11-15 01:13  

#2  According to the pretty picture at their website, Herb McCoy7309, they're a blockchain app. Blockchain seems to be the hot new thing, which is no doubt why I have no idea what it is.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-11-15 00:48  

#1  If only anyone had bothered to define etherum, or explain why I should care.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309   2017-11-15 00:08  

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