Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on August 06, 2019, 08:58:10 PM

As far as I can tell, he never directly mentioned taxation. Tax is mentioned briefly in a couple of the early email chains between Satoshi and people like Hal Finney and Ray Dillinger. I'll paste the relevant sections here:

Quote from: Ray Dillinger https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/threads/1/

I know the same (lack of intrinsic value) can be said of fiat currencies, but an artificial demand for fiat currencies is created by (among other things) taxation and legal-tender laws. Also, even a fiat currency can be an inflation hedge against another fiat currency's higher rate of inflation. But in the case of bitcoins the inflation rate of 35% is almost guaranteed by the technology, there are no supporting mechanisms for taxation, and no legal-tender laws. People will not hold assets in this highly-inflationary currency if they can help it.

Quote from: Jonathan Thornburg https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/threads/2/

In the modern world, no major government wants to allow untracable international financial transactions above some fairly modest size thresholds. (The usual catch-phrases are things like "laundering drug money", "tax evasion", and/or "financing terrorist groups".) To this end, electronic financial transactions are currently monitored by various governments & their agencies, and any but the smallest of transactions now come with various ID requirements for the humans on each end.

Wow, that is almost over my head. It sounds like those two quotes are saying that Bitcoin was designed to be free from taxes. That is what I always thought myself, but now the big concern we have to contend with is that the IRS is jumping in front of Bitcoiners and saying they want a piece of the action. It's not surprising, but still.

Quote from: dothebeats on August 06, 2019, 10:03:17 PM

None that I can remember upon reading some of his posts and interactions with other notable figures in bitcoin. From the looks of it, Satoshi seemed to be that anti-government guy that wants things to stay clear of government intervention and control that's why he created bitcoin. Also, his views are mainly crypto-anarchism, so that per se explicitly states that he will never ever support taxation in any way or form.

Cool perspective and I agree, however, I am no where near as clever as Satoshi is/was. Unless you guys come up with something that makes our Bitcoin un-taxable (by the IRS) then I am beginning to buckle under the pressure of uncertainty. I am starting to think that I'd rather just give up my KYC and be done with it, instead of being bogged down with figuring out how to be untraceable or stealthy like that. Just being real, from the perspective of somebody that is not ultra computer savvy and lacking savvy hacker knowledge.

Quote from: arrmia11 on August 06, 2019, 11:39:58 PM

He just wanted people to free from fiat slavery, so no taxation ever mentioned.

Bitcoiners will need to join together and take a stand together against the Tax Man? Essentially in the future people all around the world will decide they do not want to be taxed on their Bitcoin. A global currency. An uprising against the Tax Man is very possible, and probable.