[44192] in Cypherpunks
Re: ecash lottery (Was: ecash casino)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Wed Nov 29 23:01:22 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 21:15:18 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
At 2:00 AM 11/30/95, Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:
>iagoldbe@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ian Goldberg) writes:
>> So; is there a problem with the implementation outlined above?
>
>What about the income tax on winnings?
That's a good one! A bit subtle as humor, though.
(For many of us, even most of us, the whole _attraction_ of such gambling
schemes--to the extent any gambling scheme can ever be attractive to a
rational person--is the tax avoidance. And any scheme that allows taxation
of winnings, but not losses on individual bets, would kill this proposal
dead.)
--Tim May
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