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So Bitcoins aren't a get-out-of-taxes-free card. Isn't that it's primary practical draw? What volume of Bitcoin transactions involve black-market activity?

Bitcoin have different facets. For people leaving in places with a variety of banking choice, some of them may come unnoticed.

Bitcoin is great when:

1. You want to accept or make payments from a country where CC fraud is high or banking is rare/expensive.

2. You worry about high inflation rates in your home currency, and your government creates a lot of obstacles to move your money to other currencies (like today in Argentina).

3. Or you want transact in a grey market tax-free. E.g. a guy selling his IT consulting services.

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