It's also amazing that Ver hasn't been a US citizen for a decade and they come up with that right now? I feel like this isn't a coincidence and either some model citizen reminded the IRS about him, or maybe it has something to do with the recent attack on bitcoin wallets.
This is insane. You'd think that after renouncing the citizenship you could just be left alone but nope.
I'm also puzzled if there are any expiry dates on such charges, if the "exit tax" was due at all, the liability arose over 10 years ago, so I imagine any country would just let it go (unless he was ordered to pay by the court etc).
This was his last post in bitcointalk forum:
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Not drawing any conclusions, but it's a bit strange that he decided to return after 5 years long inactivity just to casually reply in a thread that has been dead for 10 years and got necroposted by a newbie with a total post count of 1.