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On 8 Feb 2018 08:49:12 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:

>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.

Indeed, and lots of other coinage as well.

>(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.

Second Life, yes. I played that for a short while. I understand some
people make a living at it. In Real Dollars, or what ever their local
to them legal tender is.