Bitcoin, poetry and taxes

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Quick Take

  • Crypto caselaw is becoming more prosaic as the law catches up to tech that is becoming mainstream.
  • Zietke v. United States, 2019 U.S. Dist LEXIS 204274 (D. Wash., 11/25/2019) is a recent federal court case involving an IRS summons sees the court grappling with Fourth Amendment protections for bitcoin transaction records held on an exchange
  • The Court holds that bitcoin records are more like bank records than cell phone records and declines to extend Fourth Amendment protections to them
Link to case One of my favorite poems is John Berryman’s “Dream Song 14”, which begins with the poet’s proclamation that “Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly) ‘Ever […]
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