You also have a lot of "would have to"s in your mind. Do you know whether these also exist in the world outside your mind?
Yes. I did not invent them, I read them somewhere. The complications of tax reporting, for example, have been widely discussed in this forum.
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If you were to hazard a guess about how many of Microsoft's 128,000 employees might know something about Bitcoin and might not mind being paid with it, what Might that guess be?
No idea. Assuming the ratio of 1 bitcoiner for every 10'000 humans in the world, perhaps 13? But MS employees probably can read price charts, so I would not bet on that.
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Did you catch this one a few years back?
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/156072/bitcoin.pdf
This isn't a new effort.
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/156072/bitcoin.pdf
This isn't a new effort.
In that academic (ahem) paper, the authors point out an alleged flaw of the protocol, and propose a solution for it. Which has not been adopted by the bitcoin developers, AFAIK. (I don't have an opinion on whether the flaw is real or the solution would work.)