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Actually the bigger news would be if you could pay taxes in Bitcoin. If that happens a currency has arrived.


That won't happen.

Governments routinely force their citizens to use a currency under state control. One of the ways they do this is by insisting that taxes are paid in the national currency.


You can't pay US taxes in GBP. GBP is a currency.


You can pay GB taxes in GBP though. Why must you assume taxes = US taxes?


The point is that wherever you happen to live you can't use most currencies to pay your taxes. If I live in France, Dollars, Bitcoins, and Pounds are all the same in this respect.




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