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From: ma...
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:49

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On 2018-02-07, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:52:19 -0600
>> JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 7 Feb 2018 15:07:24 GMT, jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> meaty...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> /BAH
>>> 
>>> I trust bitcoins far less than I trust the fiat money I get paid in by
>>> the US government.
>> 
>> 	You can't pay taxes in bitcoin, therefore it isn't money.
>> 
>
> Sounds like the tail end of the Roman Empire. You couldn't pay taxes with
> the coinage they issued. Taxes had to be paid in gold (IIRC).
>

Think of the Temple in Jerusalem. Offerings could be only in skekels
(sp?), and as Roman coinage was in general use, there were people in
the forecourt that would change your Roman coinage (or whatever) to
shekels, at whatever rate they decided. It caused a lot of aggro,
hense the driving out of the moneychangers.

(Roman coins had the emperors face on one side, and some considered
that idolatry, English money still has the Queen's)

Various sources

I don't understand bitcoins, therefore avoid them. I once owned 
"Second Life" dollars.

-- 
greymaus.ireland.ie
Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man

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