A mechanism for claiming a cryptocurrency loss. It was originally a joke made by gun enthusiasts who "sadly lost all of their guns in a tragic boating accident", but has been repurposed by Bitcoiners. It is often used in other contexts - for anything you don’t want the government to know you have.
I would normally have to pay taxes, but "I lost my Bitcoin in a boating accident", so I'm declaring a loss instead.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)