Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech
Drugs, Fraud, and Murder
Bitcoin is money that is designed for Main St. It was not designed to be the Wall-St casino some want, [...]
Coin burning for dummies
There is a lot of misunderstanding on how money works. Many in the Bitcoin space think that scarcity of Bitcoin [...]
The Secure (Bitcoin) Internet
We see many sites moving more and more to application-level encryption such that they can protect the transport of sensitive [...]
IPv6 with CGA and Bitcoin
IPv6 incorporates the new concept of privacy extended addresses. These are referred to as CGA (cryptographically generated addresses), and have [...]
Tax and Bitcoin — Transacting and accounting for Bitcoin
Just as with all income and capital taxation issues, Bitcoin-based transactions require that suitable record-keeping practices are adhered to. [...]
Bitcoin as the Base layer
Many people have seen IPv6 as a simple addressing extension to the existing Internet and see few changes to the [...]
Tax and Bitcoin — Investment in Bitcoin
Investment in Bitcoin should be treated as any other investment in an emolument, “which could be converted into money might [...]
Property Law in the Age of Bitcoin
Property (as defined in legal terms) as is associated with servers, routers, and information systems in general is known in [...]
Tax and Bitcoin — Income tax implications of Bitcoin as money
1.1 Overview of the income-tax system From an Australian income-tax perspective, a taxpayer’s country of residence and the source of [...]
The scams in Crypto
I will discuss the current state of play in ICOs. In my posts, I will demonstrate categorically that no token [...]
A Bitcoin Smart Risk Contract
In economic terms, we want to assign liability such that the optimal damage-mitigation strategy occurs. The victim of a breach [...]
Taxing Bitcoin — GST implications of Bitcoin as money
1.1 Overview of the Australian GST system GST is a broad-based consumption tax, and is imposed on taxable supplies and [...]