So sad that Forbes used this article to garner readership attention. Sad too, but not for non-compliant taxpayers. All they have to fear is "having records of Bitcoin transactions" according to Alford or talking about "Bitcoin while on a date", again according to Alford.Talking to your accountant about anything is a no-no because accountants do not have attorney-client privilege. Thank you, IRS, for putting tax preparers in the position of auditor because this is how you save on money because now you do not have to pay for your own auditors. Tax preparers, however, as said, are not paid to be IRS auditors but are put in that unfortunate position if they're not asking enough questions to the tax payer. Unfortunately, the IRS keeps advertising low audit rates and knowingly and willingly undermines taxpayer voluntary compliance to tax laws because of their own compliance undermining advertisements. "Really? Every date you've ever been on, you talked about low audit rates, that's all you talked about was low audit rates, but somehow when someone cheats, you forgot you talked about that" Through savvy tax rules the IRS shifts the responsibility of IRS auditor to that of the tax preparer, of course it saves the IRS a whopping amount in salaries, while baiting non-compliance of taxpayers by advertising low audit rates.