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You'd need to be pretty confident you haven't made a mistake in laundering your money through a privacy coin. And that the logic is sound enough that they haven't been compromised without your knowing (or ever will be in the future).

Better you than me..

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Yes, it's interesting how so many people are now willing to just "do crime" because crypto. Certainly speculate about doing crime. At the end of the day, if you're willing to commit crime there's a lot of options.

It worked for AirBnB and Uber.

I think there are a lot of armchair Heisenbergs on the Internet whose comments should be viewed as a form of ancap fanfiction. Ransomware and adjacent stuff is the only notable exception.

Look, all I want to do is avoid paying capital gains taxes on internet money that I earned with no effort. Is that so wrong?

Why wouldn't you want to avoid paying taxes if at all possible? Do you enjoy paying taxes?

There's avoid and evade. One's legal, one's not. One should not break the law - it is the foundation of a civil society.

But.. this thread is literally about taxation of crypto and the post was responding to someone suggesting privacy coins instead.

Tax evasion is a crime unless I’ve lost my marbles.

Just because it's a crime doesn't mean it's wrong. If your government is corrupt, paying taxes means you're funding that corruption.

You are finding that corruption, but at some point “render unto Caesar” is just about the only viable option. I personally view the government as amoral, it is not supposed to be the source of morality that is your own personal responsibility.

I think governments should be held to the highest possible standard. They are granted powers the rest of us don't enjoy, including the use of force and coercion. Any citizen faced with evidence of corruption has a moral duty to take back those powers any way they can.

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