Bubblesofearth wrote:OK, if you don't like the UK slant how about - you can pay your taxes in whatever the legal currency is of the country you live in. Bitcoin is not a legal currency in any country. Just because Bitcoins can be converted very quickly and easily into legal currency does not make it a currency itself. There are plenty of countries where gold is accepted as payment for goods. In prisons cigarettes might get you what you want. Are they currencies?
BoE
Well according to ecconomists, yes cigaretts and even fish* are a currency if used as such. Indeed you may think your argument about cigaretts a spurious joke, but tobacco WAS used as a currency.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/di ... acco-moneyBecause of the scarcity of specie, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina used tobacco as currency throughout most of the colonial period.
If, because we like to believe that only the UK counts, we limit things to the UK then there are "LETS".
I knew a solicitor who once accepted payment in "Bobbins".
https://www.letsf.org.uk/about-lets/let ... roduction/Sorry, but it is the act of exchange for goods or services that makes something a currency, NOT if the government is willing to accept it as a tax. Hence the act of the offer of bitcoins for a pizza delivery and the acceptance of them makes bitcoin a currency.
*But once cigarettes were banned, prisoners needed a replacement currency and the 'mack' was deemed to be the best choice.....
https://fee.org/articles/how-a-fish-bec ... -currency/