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I completely agree. But what would stop someone from claiming that coins that are moved from a monitored address aren’t theirs anymore due to prior physical transfer? Maybe I’m late to this realization, but wouldn’t the capacity to transfer bitcoin physically (created by coinkite products such as satscards) deem on-chain transactions useless as a reliable method to record spending for tax purposes. In other words, unless the receiving address is known (which would automatically identify the transaction type), there is no longer a way to affirm with certainty that moving coins from an address one may initially have owned means that the initial owner is subject to the consequences which that transaction may entail.

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Deleted Account 1y ago

In other words, did CoinKite screw the IRS single-handedly the day they enabled the world to transfer #bitcoin physically? Not sure what block height this happened at, but from that block onward, no holder can technically be held responsible for an address initially associated with them.

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CitizenPleb 1y ago

Before this people gifted/exchanged paper wallets and there were also Casascius coins. Those things come to mind that I believe also fit this criteria.

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