People don't spend $2000 to open an anonymous LLC in a tax haven to conduct legitimate business.
People only do that to commit tax fraud, and now, bitcoin fraud.
A WHOIS lookup takes 2 seconds. Even without the WHOIS information I already knew it was a scam from their business model.
+1 agreed.
-1 disagreed. Many people open accounts outside the US, because the US tries to interfere with and steal from their legitimate business. Now, perhaps MyBitcoin is a total catastrophe, and perhaps the owner was ill-intentioned all along, but please don't vilify honest people who simply don't want the tyrannical US Gov't interfering with them.
I strongly disagree with the US' current citizenship-based tax policies and income tax in general. I try to change these laws by speaking out against them, writing to my congressmen, and voting against statist politicians. However, until those laws are repelled, I am obligated to pay my share of the taxes as a citizen of United States, regardless of how much I may disagree with the tax regimen.
For those people who really do earn a legitimate amount of their income overseas and feel they are getting unfairly taxed based on their citizenship, they always have the option of denouncing their citizenship:
http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_776.htmlDemocracy means you get to vote against the laws that you don't like, it does not mean you can disregard those laws at your personal discretion.