thanks for nitpicking (ok it's not the bending per se)
that's what you get for readings news without doing own research.

but still a lot of of these regulations are ridiculous and many biological farmers can't sell their whole crop but just the amount that fits to those partly exaggerated standards.

Not interested in nitpicking, just thought I'd post a wikipedia link rather than the EU regulation.

never mind
but thanks for the info, now i learned something about regulation of fruits in eu.
you never know when that gets useful.

What's that coming over the hill? Is it the taxman?

or not

so this forum's gonna tell me people ain't watching mad bitcoins channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/madbitcoins/videos

A quote from the article:

Not exactly what we want, but that would sure allow more people to come in as it would add certainty.
I mean, there are exchanges that follow regulations now, but I'm sure they are hinting at something more "official"...

Little bit of a wall on Bitstamp

$107.00   130.10962618   $13,921.73

I don't think this is the case. Businesses have transacted in foreign currency for a very long time, but in most countries, you still can't pay your taxes with it. There are long standing accounting rules for handling the conversion of foreign currencies to your home currency and the recognition of the profit/loss derived from the conversion.

I don't see why Bitcoin would be any different. The IRS doesn't want to deal with currency risk in the collection of taxes.

Edit: I stand corrected. Apparently there are people who live overseas and send checks denominated in foreign currency to the IRS in payment of their taxes. However, the IRS puts the currency risk back on the payor, so if there is a shortage after they convert it to USD, the taxpayer owes the balance.

http://www.accountingweb.com/article/tigta-addresses-irs-trouble-processing-foreign-currency-tax-payments/221519