All this time, and technology hasn't solved this issue? Wasn't bitcoin supposed to be applicable here - anonymous transactions? Wasn't the internet supposed to enable humans to interact at will without censorship?
Some do not, but they typically have issues interfacing with the traditional banking environment.
Host your own infrastructure (ftp/email/www/etc.) and use Btc, and you will have a lot more liberty but not "reach"... so you can't have your cake and eat it too.
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Accepting bitcoin is all well and good, but it doesn't help you much if your customers aren't able/willing to pay with it.
If you'll pardon me, I think cash deposite below $1,000 should be none of the government's business without a valid, specific warrant. If someone wants to sell drugs, sex, or graphics cards on the side for cash, it's none of the government's business.
Only if sex work is illegal. Which it isn't in significant parts of the developed world.
Prostitutes (male or female) here around are taxed like everybody else. In addition they need to be health checked to perform their work. Paying them in cash is really no problem neither for the client nor for the provider.
Of course, if you make ten deposits of $1000 to avoid this rule, that’s called “structuring” and is considered a federal offense.
This is a valid opinion. But it's clearly in the minority. (Counterfactual: there is broad support for drug policy reform [1].) Particularly when one considers the tax consequences.
[1] https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/50th-anniversary-war-dru...
I mean on a world when adding one extra step on your checkout will drop your conversion rate, getting people to buy btc before probably pushes you into being unprofitable.
this will be true when and IF bitcoin gets to be ubiquitous