I had to write an update to this article because the IRS dropped a new notice on "Safe Harbor" for Bitcoin and crypto users in the few whiskers of hours before midnight on DECEMBER 31st!
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Excellent podcast on a murder for hire darknet site and the journalistic consortium working to warn the potential victims.
As a note, they mostly catch the people putting out the contracts using rudimentary Bitcoin chain analysis, following the money back to KYC exchanges
https://fountain.fm/show/ULWMyLgcZCcmvVXrcoj9
When you're syncing a new bitcoin core node and your entire network starts to slow down:
"Ah, we've hit the Ordinals, sir."
"I remember those times. Massive blocks, weird robes, and too much shitposting. Full steam ahead!"
A Nation of Bitcoin Scofflaws: The two-pronged Eleventh Hour IRS squeeze on Bitcoin and crypto developers
my quick take in @npub18vj0...ws2a on the broker-dealer rule for DeFi and the so-called "safe harbor" tax rule that is confusing the hell out of everyone