Maybe they won’t be in the US, but they have to be somewhere. It would be an unusual government that wouldn’t want its cut.
]]>Since it’s a peer-to-peer protocol, there’s nothing stopping the IRS (and its equivalents) from sitting on the network and logging the IP addresses of miners. The use of out-of-country exchanges may make everything else hard for the IRS to track, but if they crack down on the miners, that’s going to seriously undermine the system.
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