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Side note: speaking from experience, you need to be very careful about tying your public identity to any statements about holding this amount of cryptocurrency.

Side note: speaking from experience, you need to be very careful about tying your public identity to any statements about holding this amount of cryptocurrency. I've seen extremely well targeted (successful) spear phishing and identity theft attacks to steal bitcoin from people who posted online about holding much smaller bitcoin fortunes. I realize your username says `anon...`, but you've already made HN comments about where you live and I only did a 30s glance.

dsacco 9y ago
It only takes 33 bits of unique information (at the most) to successfully deanonymize someone :)
- derwiki 9y ago
  And one of my favorite old blogs! https://33bits.org/ https://33bits.org/
objclxt 9y ago
> you need to be very careful about tying your public identity to any statements about holding this amount of cryptocurrency. I've seen extremely well targeted (successful) spear phishing and identity theft attacks to steal bitcoin ...and hopefully you correctly reported the profit/loss on those coins to your friendly tax authority, otherwise it's not just thieves who will be out to get you.
- Ntrails 9y ago
  > it's not just thieves who will be out to get you. Man I hate the implication that the tax man is being unreasonable by applying basic goddamned tax rules to profits made in all of a persons enterprises. They aren't out to get you, they're out to collect a "fair" proportion of your earnings to pay for a crapload of services which you and your community use every god damned day.
  - topbanana 9y ago
    You say they're basic. But in the U.K. currency speculation profits are tax free
    - raverbashing 9y ago
      You have to check if it's considered as currency trade or capital gains (=profits)
    - qeternity 9y ago
      Not true. Spread betting is tax free, which most retail FX trading is conducted as. But people don't realize they are paying huge implicit trading costs to do this. And institutional investors (who certainly don't use spread betting accounts) pay ordinary rates on FX trading just like anything else.
  - aminorex 9y ago
    In the u.s. the largest share of your taxes goes to kill brown people.
    - sctb 9y ago
      We ban accounts that troll like this here, so please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - aminorex 9y ago
        Simple facts. Look at the numbers.
  - logicchains 9y ago
    Assuming the person you're replying to is an American, the majority (> 70%) of the federal budget (http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/119/2016 http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/119/2016) goes to military spending, interest payments, pensions and welfare. If the person you're replaying to is a software developer, they're likely financially independent and not relying on any such services.
bbcbasic 9y ago
Id ask mods to delete the post. I'm no detective but reckon I could figure out your name from the info in your past posts, assuming they are truthful.
- Chris2048 9y ago
  Unless we pull a Sparticus, and all claim to be bitcoin millionaires?
Temasik 9y ago
That's why the world needs monero xmr

dsacco 9y ago

It only takes 33 bits of unique information (at the most) to successfully deanonymize someone :)

derwiki 9y ago
And one of my favorite old blogs! https://33bits.org/ https://33bits.org/

objclxt 9y ago

> you need to be very careful about tying your public identity to any statements about holding this amount of cryptocurrency. I've seen extremely well targeted (successful) spear phishing and identity theft attacks to steal bitcoin ...and hopefully you correctly reported the profit/loss on those coins to your friendly tax authority, otherwise it's not just thieves who will be out to get you.

Ntrails 9y ago
> it's not just thieves who will be out to get you. Man I hate the implication that the tax man is being unreasonable by applying basic goddamned tax rules to profits made in all of a persons enterprises. They aren't out to get you, they're out to collect a "fair" proportion of your earnings to pay for a crapload of services which you and your community use every god damned day.
- topbanana 9y ago
  You say they're basic. But in the U.K. currency speculation profits are tax free
  - raverbashing 9y ago
    You have to check if it's considered as currency trade or capital gains (=profits)
  - qeternity 9y ago
    Not true. Spread betting is tax free, which most retail FX trading is conducted as. But people don't realize they are paying huge implicit trading costs to do this. And institutional investors (who certainly don't use spread betting accounts) pay ordinary rates on FX trading just like anything else.
- aminorex 9y ago
  In the u.s. the largest share of your taxes goes to kill brown people.
  - sctb 9y ago
    We ban accounts that troll like this here, so please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - aminorex 9y ago
      Simple facts. Look at the numbers.
- logicchains 9y ago
  Assuming the person you're replying to is an American, the majority (> 70%) of the federal budget (http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/119/2016 http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/119/2016) goes to military spending, interest payments, pensions and welfare. If the person you're replaying to is a software developer, they're likely financially independent and not relying on any such services.

bbcbasic 9y ago

Id ask mods to delete the post. I'm no detective but reckon I could figure out your name from the info in your past posts, assuming they are truthful.

Chris2048 9y ago
Unless we pull a Sparticus, and all claim to be bitcoin millionaires?

Temasik 9y ago

That's why the world needs monero xmr