{"id":657236,"date":"2013-05-10T07:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T11:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=483245"},"modified":"2013-05-10T07:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T11:50:44","slug":"will-the-irs-take-a-bite-out-of-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657236","title":{"rendered":"Will the IRS take a bite out of Bitcoin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/10\/bitcoin-taxes-irs-analysis\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/bitcoin-e1345563671249.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bitcoin Taxes\" title=\"Bitcoin Taxes\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Bitcoin is a good way for people to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/01\/silk-road-blackmail-allegations\/\">conduct business off the grid<\/a>, but the free ride may soon come to an end. Everyone&#8217;s favorite virtual currency has been on quite a wild ride over the past few weeks. The mainstream media finally caught wind of Bitcoin and curious parties sent it skyrocketing to $220 before watching it plummet below $70 a few short days later. It has been quite a roller coaster, but all this attention may have caught the IRS&#8217;s eye, too \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robertwood\/2013\/05\/02\/irs-takes-a-bite-out-of-bitcoin\/\"><em>Forbes<\/em> contributor Robert Wood<\/a> noted in a recent column that the Treasury&#8217;s\u00a0FinCEN already has rules pertaining to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a>, and soon the IRS might as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/10\/bitcoin-taxes-irs-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/MKw9n3Dv6Is\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin is a good way for people to conduct business off the grid, but the free ride may soon come to an end. Everyone&#8217;s favorite virtual currency has been on quite a wild ride over the past few weeks. The mainstream media finally caught wind of Bitcoin and curious parties sent it skyrocketing to $220 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}