If Bitcoin is not a currency, how are these different from any other vending machine?
Excellent point which would settle the entire argument. But I guess, as with most bureaucrats worldwide, logic and lack of bias are not exactly a priority for them when making decisions, they just care about not getting blamed down the road or upsetting their cozy racket. And I assume that in Taiwan there is no unbiased logic-loving legal system to which the decision could be appealed.