I live in the country with the freest press in the world, so you'd expect there to be less fearmongering.
Quite the opposite. I would expect to find less fearmongering in less free countries.
Likely it won't be a few, but many, however that can not be proven either.
There's no reason to believe this is true. The LNT model is known to overestimate cancer incidence, and even using LNT we get "few" and not "many".
I'd just as soon "Peggy" found something else to do. The entire "shortage" is a mythical construct of tech companies engaged in their biannual attempt to raise the H1-B cap.
If you need to be convinced to take up programming you probably won't be very good at it anyway.
What is more interesting here is that, while Norway obviously doesn't necessarily recognize a legal bucket a bitcoin can easily fit into, it's nevertheless viewing them as having some worth or profitability...
If you buy and sell anything the tax authorities will be waiting for their cut. They don't particularly care what it is.
This means that you can't count expenses, notably the power and the card against the profit.
Sure you can. The tax ugliness for assets only comes when you're trading existing assets. The rules for manufacturing are different.
Elliptic paraboloids for sale.