someone just told me that tax laws for bitcoin are changing in 2025.

something about finding cost basis per wallet

i haven't even found total cost basis as I tried every exchange under the sun: Coinbase, Blockfi, Celsius, and the list goes on...

then i've sent the satoshis from those wallets to other wallets and mixed it all together.

i think right now it's going to be simpler to just answer any future questions that cost basis was effectively 0.

at a price of 1 million per coin i would only be saving myself 20% of 100,000.

so instead of 1000000-cost basis (~100k) = 900,000 * tax rate(0.20) = $18,000

i will just pay 1000000 * tax rate (0.20) = $20,000

if tax rate is 20%, i will just lose extra $2000 for not calculating cost basis.

I'm lazy, so $2000 bucks to not have to do a bunch of record keeping seems like a steal...

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is there a thing about being so early in an investment that you don't need to do any record keeping?

i'm sure a CPA costs way more than $2000.

(*_*) ya, olde school lolz fren

I think I got the factor off.

It would be 20,000$. I'm going to start learning about taxes apparently.

Otherwise our only hope out of this is just to die and pass on to heirs and they get to just put the cost basis at whatever they received it at.

I wonder about reincarnating as my own heir in order to get that cost basis leveled out without logging into Celsius somehow.

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i separate my buckets-long term/short term

Oh that might ease some worry

taxes & legalese is kindacrazy but i will report back fren/*

still figuring out where zaps should go but not MIXing with longterm ATM

not that they matter yet, still figuring that also

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ya, but fr i have a lawyer i'm going to talk with after holidaze to broach this topic more thoroughly/*

That sounds like a good approach. Document everything now and then see a professional later.

Thank you

thank you. i'm going to watch it. Matthew suggests using a 3rd party time stamping website while he warns to be careful about using sending the screenshots to myself in gmail to timestamp as the NSA has access to all that.

that's kinda funny 'cause i have no idea what the 3rd party website is doing with the documents when it timestamps them.

and i'm not actually worried about the NSA, just the IRS!