I am going to have fun reading this one!! Thank you for the post once again kafkan, we appreciate it!!

Spiritual and humanity side

Really fascinating post. Thank you!

"To those pursuing business. Fix before you some pure and lofty aim. Build a notion of what you seek, something viable and worthy. Monetary accumulation need not be a primary pursuit here, for the dollar is a subordinate means to a greater end, and we must not mistake this means for the end. Wealth must be kept moving, changing forms, places, and hands. It must find new channels in which to flow, new markets to supply and create new demands where no demands exist."

Love, @yourself.

Such freedom gradually becomes a tyrannical "freedom of the 'the strong' against the weak, who have no choice but to submit.” “It can be accepted that there is a price for man's work, time spent or service done, but never for human dignity.” “Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.” you have my vote sir

Thank you so much for providing information about this

I am on the humanity and spiritual side of this coin!

This all freaks me out.
"Compliance" is key I suppose but to what end?
As you said taxation is theft
Tax evasion is also "theft" 
I'm not happy about any of this. 
I don't think crypto earnings should be taxed

Of course the state is afraid of generosity, since it does not play the middleman and get its cut of the generous act in a p2p generous transaction. 
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When absurdity rises, creative solutions become imminent. It is no surprise that blockchain technology emerged, it is the invention of the age and will hopefully take us to an era where people are responsible for themselves and get out of the grip of the father figure "a state" that manages your life for you in a non-consensual exchange of a nice juicy cut.

I am on the side of the person in the center of everything. Very nice article congratulations.

You know how I feel about kafkanarchy84!!  This is sick, just about as sick as California now being a sanctuary state and the fact that CA is now taking away the only tax deduction we had, our home interest .. nothing surprises me but I can just hope that 2017 filings create so much havic for the IRS that they just give up :)  SICK!!!!!  SICK!!!!!

A few weeks ago, here in Croatia the government introduced taxes for Bitcoin. Scumbags, they are trying everything they can to take some money from us. Hopefully, them and banks don't ruin cryptoworld. I think one of them is going to wipe out the other, but I'm not sure which side will win.

Wow, this was definitely a rally good post and interesting, this is a topic that everyone should  know about.

I like your post, even though I kura little understand.yang but your posting good friends, do not forget to upvote and resteem my blog buddy ya

Great post @kafkanarchy84. I absolutely agree. Taxation is theft. If we don't pay tax it will be taken by force. This tax money is then used to fund atrocities. It also used to help large corporations stay rich or get richer. Any benefit from government expenditure seems more of an after thought.  

Changing country might be the best option.

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Imo, cryptocurrencies wouldn't exist without fiat currencies. If we were still on the gold standard there would be no market for bitcoin/cryptocurrencies. There is now at least 100 ounces of paper gold to every ounce of physical gold, as well as, unlimited fiat via central bank manipulation. If we were still on the gold standard, each ounce of gold would be @ $132,000 right now. Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies are the closest thing we have now to a gold standard & a free market at this point in time.

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Very informative, thanks kafkan

I am not a tax expert but it seems like it would be a bad idea to cash out all of your gains in one year and achieve the highest tax bracket. Instead of cashing out $400,000 EUR in one year it might be a better idea to cash out $50,000 EUR over 8 years.

Sweden is getting crazier by the day and I'm seriously thinking about moving to Portugal in the not so distant future. Build up a Steem eco community which should be a lot of fun! :)

Don't think we have to do so much fighting to be honest, just have to create parallel structures and switch our focus away from the systems that are keeping us enslaved...


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God bless you

You can laugh at me now if you want. I have to taxes here in the states as well.

Éstoy del lado de lo justo, el equilibrio, el valor. Millones de personas mueren a diario porque apesar que trabajaron sin parar no alcanza para la comida como un ejemplo. En que momento valemos menos que los demás ?

I don't live in the EU..but according to that user he was taxed so heavily because it was his only income? So, could those taxes be avoided by having a crap job for one month. Would he then have "regular income", and be subject to a lower tax rate? Just wondering how that works there.

I think a new idea, it is new or not I am not sure, but if we have strong crypto banking system in every country, where we can directly get our steem price can be exchanged without the intervention of the government of any country. Then our crypto currency will be safe. If we have decentralized bank to where every currency of the world be available... The problem may solve in this way. Govt are the monster who are in a mood to grab your hard work money every time. Please think about this. Have a beautiful day my friend.

Great job of articulating the fears and concerns that I'm sure many of us here share with you.

This is my first financial year of being actively involved in Crypto and I'm hoping that any gains can be taxed to a bare minimum if possible. I can't help but wonder to myself though, how can centralised control of decentralised assets even work?
I don't deny the fact that it could all get really damn nasty, but it seems like the perfect opportunity for the state to show it's true colours to those who still believe that it exists for some arbitrary "the greater good".

I'd love to hear how others are planning for this and working to protect themselves in the long run.

I find it interesting that you would start a post on Cryptocurrencies and give the merits of "basic natural law and property rights" I say this because I see Cryptocurrencies as a violation of those same natural laws. As a matter of fact I see it as fiat! Please notice I didn't say government fiat. As I'm sure you know, but others may not "fiat" means "So be it" , and once only a king and his ilk could say "so be it" and have what he said come to pass. However now most of the kings have been replaced with governments so people relate So be it  (fiat) to what governments might do. Hence fiat (So be it) money! People want to take back their power to say So be it for their own benefit, and that is all well and good as long as there is no negative affect by your right to say those words to others. Cryptocurrencies in their current form violates the basic natural law that you talk about. However before I can talk about how I think they do that, I have to give you my understanding of what currency is, and what is the difference I believe there is between currency and money.
# This is a source of money!
 This and any of the other commodities  
![jacobs-trees-2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXZGAvKjXmKRSBtcVKQWTpLR9tsKKUZdp779r1hTEunPF/jacobs-trees-2.jpg)
https://modernfarmer.com/2013/12/chop-wood/
*And I am not talking about making it into paper and then printing symbols on it.*

# This is not a source of money

![server-847287.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmenq43XdE8oHqinzcuttg5b45DUFiCuo72aVNQhGB4gvj/server-847287.jpg)
https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photos-globe-server-image3002843
And it is not (as some say) the new type of money. It is not even currency unless it is somehow connected with human effort. Money comes from a person's effort. I make this statement because some have called Cryptocurrencies money and that is where the evil side comes in. 
> a blatant, calculated, unapologetic and brutal denial of the immutable biological and metaphysical reality of individual self-ownership.

I believe that "self-owership" referred to is in direct connection with the fruits of ones labor. A very important question, is a computer's labor 100 to 1000 time more acceptable than a man or woman's labor? Right now you might reply to that question with "YES!  because it is going up". Let's take a look at the closing numbers right now Bit-coin is currently at the 14,500 level, the 200 day moving average is at 4,700 which is down 68 percent and the 200 week average is at 1,365 down 89 percent.  So you can have a 70 to 90 percent retrace and Bit-coin and it would still be in an up trend. However I don't think people who got it some time back should be to happy with those numbers. Because it shows that people are taking profit and to the people that are taking profit that's a good thing, but for the others, not so much.
*Those who have not taken profit.*
## The Island of Dr. Moreau 
![IslandOfDrmonur.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbjLr28V9zwdzUyeK5UmFPyMYz5Rp4mTnzJUR7msocajF/IslandOfDrmonur.png)
*Are We Not Men ?*
# So do I think Cyrpto's are a good thing?
“Venezuela will create a cryptocurrency,” backed by oil, gas, gold and diamond reserves, President Maduro said in his regular Sunday televised broadcast! This is my idea of a real cryptocurrency. What is the reason that people dislike the dollar other than taxes ?
> which could be remedy by a flat tax as there are in many nations states

It is because the dollar is printed without anything backing it. You might reply "that's not true it's back by oil." Well for one thing it's not backed by our oil, also that is very quickly becoming a thing of the pass. I personally think that steemit could have a good platform for cyrpto, however the inequality are glaring (which is the reason I stop posting and only comment). This could be a post but as a post I would not make one steem from it, but to give an opinion on a very important subject, to me is worth the time. So, I understand that by this time the reply is a bit much! I will only make one more point. Someone once said to me that cyrpto are back by mathematics. I think I'll let a respected intellect reply to that for me.  
![Einstein.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXXQEaaza573edGxmrdVtss7otNRDgJoUWqnLpFew2uKQ/Einstein.png)
Of cause this is just one man's opinion!
Oh! as far as cyrpto taxes " I am for a flat tax! So no to taxes on cyrpto's! Just a tax on all sales only!

The thieving no good governments can kiss my hairy arse!!!!
It seems the UK government has nothing in place yet _to my knowledge_ regarding the taxation of crypto profits but I'm sure it's in the pipeline.
It's no surprise to me to see the Japanese take the lead in crypto taxation considering they are a puppet government of the US and effectively broke.
As far as I'm concerned this is a line in the sand, I won't give them a penny.....
**EVER!**

On top of all that, it is sort of fun! Of course I think the same about anything anti-state. Please visit policyofliberty, too. Appreciate your upvotes! I upvoted yours as well.

Damn man, gonna have to get you and Mizue in the same room some time soon so we can work this shit out. If I'm to sell fruit and veg for Steem (or any other crypto), there's no way I'm paying taxes on it.

I love the slant of this article. What I think most of the naysayers are forgetting, is that the "value" in "store of value" of crypto-currencies lies in the decentralization, or reclamation of economic freedoms.