Minnesota Representative to Reintroduce Hard Fork Tax Reform Bill

Minnesota Congressional Representative Tom Emmer has announced plans to reintroduce a bill meant to “provide temporary safe harbor for the tax treatment of hard forks of convertible virtual currency in the absence of administrative guidance.”

Representative Emmer participated in a panel on the relationship between government and the crypto industry at Consensus 2019 on May 13, 2019, wherein he first announced an attempt to continue the fight for his hard fork bill. Joined by industry leaders and government personalities, Emmer publicly acknowledged the sort of limbo that crypto holders find themselves in when one of their cryptocurrency holdings undergoes a hard fork. When a coin forks in such a way, tax agencies currently have grounds to consider the new “forkcoin” assets as undeclared income.

The first iteration of this bill was introduced by Emmer in September 2018, when it was immediately transferred over to the jurisdiction of the House Committee on Ways and Means. Having effectively died in committee with no significant updates since, Emmer has now declared that the updated version of the bill will differ in several ways from the text of the original, possibly including protections for other means of crypto asset holding such as airdrops.

The issuance of crypto asset forks has been a recurring topic of discussion in the space for several years now, ever since the first major forkcoins were created from the original ₿itcoin blockchain. The practice has gained quite a deal of notoriety recently, however, upon the fork of ₿itcoin Cash in November 2018. ₿itcoin Cash is itself one of the most famous of the original forkcoins and this subsequent split raised many questions about the status of forkcoins in the future. In particular, clarifying the legal status of these assets in the tax ecosystem seems pressing.

Emmer gave no concrete timetable as to when he plans to reintroduce his bill, titled the “Safe Harbor for Taxpayers with Forked Assets Act.” He has mentioned support from other representatives in a Blockchain Caucus which may give this second attempt at getting the bill passed a better chance.

Published at Thu, 16 May 2019 15:34:41 +0000

December 7, 2017

Here’s How SonoCoin Is Trying To Use Sound To Transfer Value

Companies are rushing to try and make peer to peer, blockchain based value transfer quicker and simpler right now and this company thinks it’s been able to do just that.

bitcoin just broke through a major resistance level and interest in the space has never been higher. Companies of all shapes and sizes are popping up, looking to take advantage of the rush to develop and establish the blockchain-centric infrastructure that’s going to serve as the foundation for technological advance for many years to come and many of these are conducting ICOs to try and pick up funding. The ICO space, however, and likely as a direct result of the above statement, is pretty crowded right now and a company that wants to stand out and – in turn – to attract investor capital through an initial offering has to serve up something unique. Reports have just hit press that a company called SonoCoin is about to launch its efforts to do just that and, at a glance, the company looks as though it certainly checks the ‘unique offering’ box.

SonoCoin has developed a blockchain based peer-to-peer value transfer system that uses a digitally encrypted audio file as its transfer token. In contrast to bitcoin, which uses a Proof-of-Work (PoW) protocol, SonoCoin uses a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) protocol to verify transactions and, again unlike bitcoin, the exchange token can be sent via any means through which a standard data/audio file can be sent – email, messenger application, etc.

So how does it work?

The company has developed an algorithm that takes a transaction hash, a secret key and the index (which is defined as the number of outputs when the coin was formed) and converts it into a .wav file.

This file can then be sent from one device to another (basically, so long as the devices have a microphone and a speaker that can emit, recognize and interpret sound, which pretty much all mobile devices do right now) and, on receipt, an application (which is already available for some devices) specifically designed to interpret these SonoCoin sound files will record and register the transaction.

And why is this news now?

The company is currently conducting a presale of its tokens and intends to move into the second phase of this presale on December 14, at the end of next week. During phase one and phase two (phase one has been active since this time last week), a total of 30 million coins will be issued. Subsequent to the presale, 40 million coins will be issued as part of the full ICO.

How successful the ICO will be remains to be seen but the assumption is that, post-completion, SonoCoin will look to pick up a listing for its coins on the major exchanges in the space – Bittrex, Poloniex, etc. and it’s at that point that we’ll really get an idea of the market appetite for this sort of alternative-format type value transfer.

Here’s the company’s Whitepaper for anyone looking to get a better idea of how SonoCoin works.

What do you think of this sort of application of blockchain technology? Will the ability to transfer value via sound files aid mainstream adoption of algorithm-based peer-to-peer transactions? Let us know in the comments section below!

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Minnesota Representative to Reintroduce Hard Fork Tax Reform Bill

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