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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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kirill 1y ago

https://youtu.be/NMXad4W71PY

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gojiberra 1y ago

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!

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