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If you recall, this was once a common argument that exchanging one cryptocurrency for another is a non-taxable event because they fall under the rule of exchanging like assets without generating a taxable event until the sale of said asset.  This was eventually clarified by the IRS that this rule only applies to real estate properties.\n\nWhile I am not here to discuss the legality of taxation in the first place, and I am not here to choose sides between bending the interpretation of the laws in favor of the tax payer or the government, I am here to touch on one point I have learned over the past few years:\n\nWhen it comes to paying taxes, don't f*** with the government.\n\nIt is simple.  IRS, and the government as a whole, have the absolute resources and power to make your life miserable.  Penalties for breaking some of the laws, purposefully or mistakenly, can be costly - both to your finances and to your freedom.  \n\nA perfect such example of where you should not bend the law is FBAR.\n\n \n\nWhat is FBAR?\nFirst of, FBAR doesn't really have anything to do with taxes or the IRS.  It stands for \"Foreign Bank Account Report\".  It is a report that is filed with FinCen (The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network bureau of the US Department of the Treasury) form 114 each year by every US person (citizen or resident) who owns or has authority over at least one foreign financial account AND the combined value of these accounts equals or exceeds $10,000 USD.\n\nFor more specific information on what FBAR is and who must file FinCen form 114 visit https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/report-of-foreign-bank-and-financial-accounts-fbar\n\n \n\nSo what does this have to do with cryprocurrencies?\nWell, here is where the financial advisors, crypto traders and enthusiasts disagree.  In short, if you happen to trade cryptocurrencies on an exchange that is not US based but is a based on a foreign land, it could be interpreted as a foreign account.  An example of this is Binance, which is not a US based exchange (not to confuse with Binance.US which is headquartered in the US and abides under US financial laws and regulations).  If you have an account with Binance and have had crypto assets there at any time in the calendar year, you might be required to file the FBAR.\n\nBut it gets even more confusing.  The IRS regulation states that FBAR must be filed if the total value of all assets in foreign accounts exceeds $10,000.  That means that even you had less than $10k worth of cryptocurrencies with one foreign exchange, you must consider all foreign exchanges and accounts before determining your requirement to file the FBAR.\n\n \n\nHow to determine the value.\nThis is even harder to figure out.  The rule specifies that the total value of all your foreign accounts must exceed $10,000 at any time in a calendar year.  This means that you must know the USD value of all the cryptocurrencies for any given calendar day.  With the prices fluctuating from minute to minute it is not an easy task. \n\nThere as some obvious scenarios here - if you bought 1 BTC on a foreign exchange for $6,000 and kept it there until it reached $10,000 in value - you must file the FBAR.  I suppose similarly, if you bought 1 BTC for $6,000 and transferred it out of the foreign account to say your private wallet, then later purchased another BTC at say $7,000 and again transferred it to your personal wallet, then the account value would not had exceeded $10,000 USD and you would not need to file the FBAR.  In this case the account value would not had exceeded $7,000 USD. \n\nPlease note again that it is my personal interpretation and not a professional one.\n\n \n\nSo what if I don't file the FBAR?\nWell, you might get away with it, or you may not.  IRS and the government want their portion of your profits, and they are up to all the tricks.  Their job is to collect your money.  FinCen is not here to collect your profits, however; they want to know what do you do financially outside the US. \n\nSo what are some penalties for not filing the FBAR?  Well, they are frankly quite steep, reaching up to $500,000 in penalties, or 10 years of imprisonment, or both.  Here's a breakdown according to https://www.goldinglawyers.com/a-summary-of-fbar-penalties-faq-common-questions-answers/:\n\nCivil Violations:\n![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmS7RUZHhPrpQ4AqxaMRFqRKx4zrv9fwxGbnurBFBqEUix/image.png)\n\nCriminal Violations:\n![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbQHH2Vrd67yPqNDdxV31cyQdyKQ2qD28Ysc4cYadTTTm/image.png)\n\nHow to file.\nIf you determine you need to file the FBAR, you can do so electronically through the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s BSA E-Filing System. \nThe filing due date is April 15th.  It is a short form, but you will need to obtain account numbers and values for each foreign asset, as well as addresses of the financial institutions where the accounts are held.\n\n \n\n \n\nOnce more, all of the above is my own interpretation of the laws.  When in doubt, always contact a professional.\n\n\n\n\n\nResources\n\nhttps://americansoverseas.org/en/knowledge-centre/explanation-of-the-us-tax-system/what-is-fbar/\nhttps://ripplecoinnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BANNER_-FinCEN-sanciona-a-comerciante-estadounidense_pandanoticias.jpg\nhttps://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0110/10-things-to-know-about-1031-exchanges.aspx\nhttps://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/report-of-foreign-bank-and-financial-accounts-fbar\nhttps://www.goldinglawyers.com/a-summary-of-fbar-penalties-faq-common-questions-answers/",
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      "body": "Thanks for the write-up.  I saw your reddit post as well.  I am also stuck in that I can't claim my ONG without having any ONG in a first place .  Would you be willing to help me out as you helped the other fellow?  If so, I'd be willing to send you additional ONG for your trouble.   \nMy wallet address is AeX1HsE9wjmdvFvurXJPfqkPUsRUwojM8t\nThanks for any help up front.",
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      "body": "[Changelly](https://changelly.com/?ref_id=8bc42163701d) doesn't need an introduction if you're into buying and selling cryptocurrencies.  But just in case - it's a service similar to ShapeShift that allows a person send one type of coin or token and exchange it for another.  It's good to note that [Changelly](https://changelly.com/?ref_id=8bc42163701d) and Shapeshift are not exchanges, but instead pair the exchange of coins with 3rd party exchanges while maximizing the exchange value.  The goal is to sell one currency at the highest value and receive the most possible amount of coins in another currency.\n\nI've been using [Changelly](https://changelly.com/?ref_id=8bc42163701d) for a while now, without any issues.  I've also used ShapeShift on some occasions since it supports a broader range of currencies/tokens, although [Changelly](https://changelly.com/?ref_id=8bc42163701d) has been expanding their support widely in the recent weeks.\nThe reason I've been preferring [Changelly](https://changelly.com/?ref_id=8bc42163701d) over ShapeShift is because I've read some pretty bad reviews on how people lost money when their Shapeshift exchange transactions failed.\n\nWell, yesterday, for the very first time, one of my [Changelly](https://changelly.com/?ref_id=8bc42163701d) transactions failed.\n\n![Screenshot_20171027-165430.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZRLiqR5MtMHsr3FAwvSJLzsXHa76PryZ3ez8V31bN2SU/Screenshot_20171027-165430.png)\n\nAt first I freaked out.  Then a sudden realization came to me that if I lost my money, it's only about $118 worth.  I could live with that.  But better, there had to be a way to straighten it out.\n\nI quickly found a contact for [Changelly](https://changelly.com/?ref_id=8bc42163701d) Support and emailed them with screenshots at [email protected].  \n\nI immediately received the following automated response:\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbWmXhK9ecPJQ7c3M1h5u1BA6qWMTHVyQbWsREccfwX19/image.png)\n\nJust a few minutes later I received a reply from a real person:\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmV5WrhNphs48rWh8JiuTJRCw2vrXidxQdKLTGT1Z3VTaM/image.png)\n\nThen this morning I received the following email:\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeVAfwAY7gtKeja47MKjVdKbEqRvP4YvieZf849dzhMac/image.png)\n\nI was able to confirm that my wallet received the missing tokens.\n\nAll in all, I must admit I did not expect this level of support.  Reading about some of the experiences people have had I was sure my request was going to never be answered.  I not only received a very fast response, but also did not have to jump through any hoops to get my tokens back.",
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      "body": "A Michigan man has been charged with running an unlicensed money transmitting business after selling nearly $150,000 in bitcoin online.\n\nAccording to an indictment released by Detroit TV news services WD-IV Friday, 52-year-old Bradley Anthony Stetkiw ran an exchange through the LocalBitcoins website, conducting transactions at restaurants in the Bloomfield area. Stetkiw is alleged to have sold bitcoin as part of a business venture for approximately two years, at a volume that would make him subject to federal anti-money laundering regulations.\n\nOf the total, the documents, filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, assert Stetkiw sold more than $56,000 worth of bitcoin to federal agents through six meetings.\n\nAccording to the indictment:\n\"Operating under the user name 'SaltandPepper,' Stetkiw bought, sold and brokered deals for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoins while failing to comply with the money transmitting business registration requirements set fort in Title 31, United States Code, Section 5330.\"\n\nThe authorities are going after individuals who are operating unlicensed cryptocurrency exchanges.  Stetkiw is notably not the first LocalBitcoins user to be charged for trading bitcoin.\n\nEarlier this year, Detroit resident Sal Mansy plead guilty to the charge of operating an unlicensed money services business. He allegedly conducted $2.4 million-worth of transactions over a two-year period ending in July 2015.\n\nOther arrests in Missouri and New York suggest actions against independent U.S. bitcoin sellers are becoming more commonplace.\n\nLast year, a Louisiana chiropractor and his son pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money servicing business in which they sold over $3.5 million USD in Bitcoin for fiat currency. Recently, a Florida programmer got sentenced to 16 months in jail for his part in a Bitcoin laundering scheme.\n\nThe Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) did issue a document in 2013 that stated that users of cryptocurrencies were not money servicing businesses, but those who engage in exchanging those currencies were. The agency said:\n\"A user is a person that obtains virtual currency to purchase goods or services. An exchanger is a person engaged as a business in the exchange of virtual currency for real currency, funds, or other virtual currency.\"\n\nSo when in doubt, make sure you know the legalities that pertain to what you’re doing. Exchanging Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in person could land you in legal hot water.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfB3c2U8Qza5YzdVkxS3TubP94AmCi5QranCP2aGQCNAd/image.png)\n\nSources:\nhttps://www.coindesk.com/michigan-man-charged-unlawful-bitcoin-exchange/\nhttps://bitcoinist.com/michigan-man-busted-unlicensed-bitcoin-exchange-faces-jail-time/\n\nDonations are appreciated:\nBTC: 11Nu6FrhMQLQJKAwjv1dCLZ2EBrtsyxaJ\nBCH: 14eUtQn31TbMbBWyZUFwSrY9iQz2V1UcuG\nETH: 0xc71c9774b2b93e8b491d359e73bf516cfb6d6e63\nLTC: LcdfL6baEDJXVguiV9vKPZrE8BQfvhtC5x\nDOGE: DBA5vriuHgPZH8ZaeqdfQAYBinG1dQZ4ih",
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      "body": "I wrote this procedure up on XDA a while back and thought I'd post it here as well.\nOriginal post and forum can be found at:  https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unbrick-oneplus-one-t3013732\n\nFirst some background and credits:\nThere are a few ways to brick a phone. Sometimes it's lack of experience, sometimes it's an accidental thing, sometimes there just isn't an explanation for what went wrong... (share your experience here, if you wish). For me, I owned my OPO for about 4 hours before things went wrong. First thing I did was I rooted it and installed TWRP. After creating a nandroid backup of the stock image I installed my favorite custom ROM and restored all my apps with TiBu. Everything was great and configured just the way I wanted it. I then wiped my old phone (Nexus 4), installed a new ROM and got it all ready for my wife. She was so excited to get rid of her GNex and move up to the N4. But then, for whatever reason, I opened an app on my OPO that I used to manage, download, and install kernels with. It came up with \"there is a new kernel update!\" and I instinctively clicked on \"Install\". 10 seconds later my phone was bricked. Nothing came on the screen, no fastboot, no recovery, nothing to boot to, no way to send data to and from it. The second the screen went black and the phone became lifeless I got that wretched feeling in my gut as I realized I just flashed a N4 kernel on my new OPO. Restoring the kernel management app with TiBu made it act like it's still running on my old phone, and in my excitement I didn't take a second to think things through... \nI received a bit of consolation when a quick XDA search revealed that I am not the only dumbass to brick his phone this very way. I joined forces with some pretty smart and desperate people and tried different things, all described in the following thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/onep...t-adb-t2835696. Unfortunately it took us what seemed like many long weeks to figure it all out. Well, in the end a solution was found and I documented it in the the following post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=136. \n\nThis was a few months ago, but I recently noticed many people continue to search for these directions and have problems finding them hidden among many pages and other threads, so I've decided to put this stand alone thread with these, now updated, directions.\n\nLet me get one more thing straight, for the record. I did not find the way to unbrick the OPO. In fact I wasn't even the very first one to do it. It was a collective effort of few people who tried many different approaches and ideas, and I eventually documented these steps for others to follow. Being said, the following people deserve credit as well: @os_man, @rezor92, @Mnt-XDA. If I am forgetting other significant names and efforts, I apologize.\n\n\n***CAUTION***\nThe following instructions are for hardware bricked devices ONLY and will not work on soft bricked devices. To determine whether your device is soft or hard bricked, click the button below:\n\nHardware brick\nA hardware bricked OPO has nothing but a black screen (nothing ever comes on the screen, not even a boot logo), it might vibrate when a power button is pressed and held for 20 seconds, has no Recovery partition, no adb mode, and no fastboot partition. The device might be detected in Linux and you might be able to even send commands to it. In Windows, the bricked OPO should be detected as QHSUSB_BULK USB. You might have a bricked OPO as a result of flashing a kernel meant for a different device (or a ROM meant for another device that included a kernel), tinkering with the boot logo or bootloader, or your attempt of unlocking the bootloader resulted in corrupting the boot partition.\n\nSoftware brick\nPlease do not attempt to use these directions if your phone is soft bricked. A software bricked OPO is one that might be stuck in a bootloop, but has a working bootloader, recovery partition, fastboot, or adb. If you press the power button and images appear on the screen and you are able to enter fastboot mode (Power + VolUP) or recovery (Power + VolDOWN) then your device is soft bricked. This thread does not encompass soft brick recovery, the instructions below do not apply and will not work on these phones. Consult other threads for help on soft bricked devices.\n\n\nIf based on the above explanation of differences between soft and hard bricks you determined your device is hard bricked, here's what you will need to do...\n\n1:\nDownload Color.zip from https://goo.gl/iDby26\nAfter downloading, unzip the archive on your computer.\n\n2:\nNext, you need proper Windows drivers. There are architectural differences between Windows XP and Windows 7/8, so follow the directions below that pertain to you. One quick note about the drivers: the installation and process is very simple and straightforward on Windows XP (I also tested successfully on Windows 2003), but proves to be quite a challenge when running on Windows 7 or 8. Over and over people report issues when attempting the unbrick procedure on Windows 7/8, some have more luck than others. Being said, if you have access to a Windows XP computer, I highly recommend that you use that. If you have no choice but to use a Windows 7 or 8 computer and have problems, please share them here and read others' experiences.\n\nSo first, by now you probably tried a few different things to fix your phone and you've already installed some drivers, including Qualcomm USB drivers for 9006 and 9008. My best advice is to uninstall the drivers you tried so far and use the ones listed below. Go to Device Manager, right click on the bricked USB device (QHSUSB_BULK or Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008) and go to Properties, click on Driver, then select Uninstall. Check the box to remove driver files, if prompted. Then:\n\n2a:\nWindows XP users:\nYou are in luck, driver installation is straightforward. Go to the extracted Color.zip folder and find Driver.iso. Extract Driver.iso. Inside the extracted folder find Setup.exe. Run Setup.exe to install the drivers. The installer is Chinese, but all you need to do is click through the prompts.\n\n2b:\nWindows 7 and Windows 8:\nThese operating systems block unsigned driver installations by default. Follow these steps (thanks @nag4pl for testing these):\nDownload and extract these Qualcomm 2012 drivers: https://goo.gl/cIKnFZ. Connect your bricked phone and let Windows do its thing. \nNow something very essential you need to do here is to execute two commands to allow you to install unsigned drivers for QHUSB_BULK. Click on Start Menu > Type cmd.exe > Right Click and Run as Administrator.\nIn the CMD window type in the following commands (hit enter after each):\n\nbcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS\nbcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON\n\nAfter both the commands should run successfully, restart your computer.\nYou can now proceed to install unsigned drivers from the file you downloaded. Open Device Manager, you should be seeing ugly yellow warning under other devices for QHUSB_BULK. Right click on the name and select Update Driver Software > Browse my Computer for driver software. For driver software location provide the path where you have extracted Qualcomm 2012 drivers you downloaded and make sure 'Include Subfolders' is checked. Proceed through all the installation prompts ignoring any warnings.\n\n\n3:\nOnce you have the drivers straightened out, connect your bricked phone to the computer and start it up by holding VolUp + Power to about 10 seconds, and let the computer do its thing. Don't install drivers if they are not installed by itself. Instead launch Msm8974DownloadTool.exe as Administrator (right click on Msm8974DownloadTool.exe and select \"Run as administrator\") from the extracted Color.zip archive. It will scan all the COM ports and find the phone. That's the one line that looks different in the list. The list is just a list of your com ports and devices. If you unplug the phone and move it to another port, it will show your bricked phone on a different line. \n\nClicking on \"Enum\" just rescans the busses. Clicking the big square button in upper right corner scans the phone and reports what's good and what's not. It takes a minute for the scan to finish.\n\nIf you don't see your phone in the list of com devices, try unplugging/plugging in your phone a couple times, and rebooting it with VolUP + Power (hold 10 seconds). You will see it in Device Manager as well.\n\nOnce you see the phone in the list, click Start. You should see the programs start writing different files to the phone. Each time it writes a file you'll see a progress bar. Once you see this process happening, smile, you know you will be good to go... After all files are written, the com line with your device will turn green. You're good, unplug and reboot your phone. 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      "body": "I watched a video last night about a guy who run into some problems when he cashed out his bitcoins and then transferred USD from Coinbase to his account at the Bank of America.  Here's the link to the video, but I warn you - it is full of profanities and generally not suitable for watching at the workplace or around children: \n\nhttps://youtu.be/eImB8l5pruw\n\nIn short, the guy made a ~$100k transfer to his Bank of America account and within 3 minutes all his accounts were automatically closed.  He had a number of personal and business checking and savings accounts, as well as credit cards and a mortgage.  All of the accounts were frozen, except for the mortgage.  He was also unable to log in to his account over the internet portal.\n\nFurthermore, the guy was not able to get any answers as to exactly what warranted the bank's action, nor was he able to get his money.  Bank of America stated they will mail him a cashier's check, but would not even give him an ETA.\n\nThe transfer from Coinbase did include \"BTC\" in the payer's name.  Perhaps that's what tipped the bank off.\n\nThis shows the extend the big banks will go to make the lives harder for all those who perform crypto transactions outside of the banking system.  They know bitcoin is their enemy, and this is their way of making people think twice before they consider trying to trade bitcoins.  \n\nThis could be something that many large banks will start doing.  It's their way of fighting the war on bitcoin.  \n\nNow, you might already be investing in cryptocurrencies because you've come to believe that the US dollar (aka debt system) is one giant scam that is about to collapse.  And if so, you might assume that no financial institution will be immune to such collapse, but I've come to understand that credit unions don't invest as much of the account holders' money into as many risky options as the big greedy banks do.  In an emergency situation, perhaps we'll have a better luck getting our money out of a smaller, local institution.  Until then, I will use my local friendly credit union to perform transfers to and from the crypto exchanges.\n\nFor more info on why I believe the mighty dollar is about to collapse, check out this video:\nhttps://youtu.be/iFDe5kUUyT0",
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      "body": "I watched a video last night about a guy who run into some problems when he cashed out his bitcoins and then transferred USD from Coinbase to his account at the Bank of America.  Here's the link to the video, but I warn you - it is full of profanities and generally not suitable for watching at the workplace or around children: \n\nhttps://youtu.be/eImB8l5pruw\n\nIn short, the guy made a ~$100k transfer to his Bank of America account and within 3 minutes all his accounts were automatically closed.  He had a number of personal and business checking and savings accounts, as well as credit cards and a mortgage.  All of the accounts were frozen, except for the mortgage.  He was also unable to log in to his account over the internet portal.\n\nFurthermore, the guy was not able to get any answers as to exactly what warranted the bank's action, nor was he able to get his money.  Bank of America stated they will mail him a cashier's check, but would not even give him an ETA.\n\nThe transfer from Coinbase did include \"BTC\" in the payer's name.  Perhaps that's what tipped the bank off.\n\nThis shows the extend the big banks will go to make the lives harder for all those who perform crypto transactions outside of the banking system.  They know bitcoin is their enemy, and this is their way of making people think twice before they consider trying to trade bitcoins.  \n\nThis could be something that many large banks will start doing.  It's their way of fighting the war on bitcoin.  \n\nNow, you might already be investing in cryptocurrencies because you've come to believe that the US dollar (aka debt system) is one giant scam that is about to collapse.  And if so, you might assume that no financial institution will be immune to such collapse, but I've come to understand that credit unions don't invest as much of the account holders' money into as many risky options as the big greedy banks do.  In an emergency situation, perhaps we'll have a better luck getting our money out of a smaller, local institution.  Until then, I will use my local friendly credit union to perform transfers to and from the crypto exchanges.\n\nFor more info on why I believe the mighty dollar is about to collapse, check out this video:\nhttps://youtu.be/iFDe5kUUyT0",
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