<story><title>Bitcoin Is Creeping into Real Estate Deals</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-is-creeping-into-real-estate-deals-1511265600</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>This article seems to conflate using the block chain to verify title transfers, with using Bitcoin to buy&amp;#x2F;rent property, as it discusses both without really drawing a distinction.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone make sense of what&amp;#x27;s going on here, and in particular why a municipality would prefer a block chain to a public database of digitally signed records?</text></comment>
<story><title>Bitcoin Is Creeping into Real Estate Deals</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-is-creeping-into-real-estate-deals-1511265600</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badloginagain</author><text>In Canada, buying&amp;#x2F;selling Bitcoin is subject to capital gains in the same way buying&amp;#x2F;selling stocks are. I wonder if you have to pay capital gains if using Bitcoin directly as a currency- as in through the purchase of a house or other expensive asset.</text></comment>