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To: neolib who wrote (480039)9/24/2021 4:00:11 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 541169
 
What if I sell 100,000 baby diapers on Baidu to someone in Canada?- I get them to pay 10x what it costs me (this is the China model). 20% of that is redirected to a crypto account through the obviously named Crypto Bitcoin Transfer Authority. CBTA is a shell company that has a legitimate side warehousing products being sent from China and resold elsewhere in North America.

What would China audit? That you made baby diapers (you did) or that you shipped them to Canada (you did) or that you got a crypo-kickback? That last part they can't check. You got an invoice to show the government as a PDF and a bank transfer. What they can't assess is your agreement with CBTA.

Not a fully fleshed out scenario but it makes my point. China can only check that which comes in and out of China. If one is careful - that all looks a-okay.



To: neolib who wrote (480039)9/24/2021 4:09:52 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541169
 
The excitement about cryptocurrency is that it isn't tied to any nation, or any nation's current prosperity. I really wish I'd bought a bunch of bitcoin when it came out. Perhaps I should buy some microscopically thin slices now, before the collapse of America.

At what price did Bitcoin start trading?

Bitcoin first started trading from around $0.0008 to $0.08 per coin in July 2010.

Today, 1 Bitcoin equals

$42,382.50


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