Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@alan8325 good point!

@Brocketman The fact is if they're reopening early, why didn't they reopen months ago? The whole rational was to delay for a vaccine.

@zechendorf @waxwing Sane jurisdictions only require you to pay tax when you sell; not all jurisdictions are sane.

Here in Canada there are actually edge cases with how stock options are treated that end up causing consultants to go bankrupt because you can be required to pay taxes on options that are literally impossible to sell, at valuations that are unrealistic. Found that out working for a startup.

@nocturnality ...notably they want tax dollars more than power only when they have access to a functioning economy... 😂

@waxwing IIRC that exact argument was used successfully in a lawsuit in Israel to force banks to accept wire transfers from Bitcoin exchanges.

The only thing politicians want more than power is tax dollars.

@waxwing Wouldn't surprise me... We really need common carrier laws to force entities like banks to accept all business without a court order mandating otherwise. Plenty of historical precedent in similar laws in the past with stuff like phone service and postal mail.

@NunyaBidness I'm gonna have to turn off auto-expand for content warnings because dad jokes.