Quote from: dhenson on December 13, 2015, 09:42:37 PM

Quote from: chriswilmer on December 11, 2015, 06:38:39 PM

Serious question for US AM hodlers out there... how do you go about "abandoning" this investment for tax purposes? I'd happily sell my shares to someone for a penny, if I could... but I presume that would need a response from friedcat.

"Abandonment" of an investment is a real thing from the IRS's perspective, I've just never done it before. If you have experience, let me know!

Sign a message with the private key of the account you hold the shares under selling them to me for $1. PM me your email address and I'll paypal you the payment (or obviously I could pay in btc). In the event FC comes back, your signed message would be sufficient for him to transfer me the shares so the sale should be binding. AFIAK

Be cautious. Friedcat had the dangerous behaviour to simply trust on the email address. I think it might have been possible to fake transfers with SMTP too when he was still around. He did not ask for any proof.

I only write that in case you hope for a good ending. For selling it with losses to you for tax reasons it is a fine thing.