I tried to log into my old account (bmoconno) and when I do I get a message saying that because it was inactive for a long time and existed when the 2015 password hash dump happened it has been blocked. It provides an email address like reactivate...@bitcointalk.org to get it unlocked. I sent an email the other day (from the email address registered to the account) and haven't heard anything back yet... is this still the correct email address to use? Or does it usually just take some time before someone looks it over?

Any insight here would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

I've been out of the game for a few years... ok, like a lot of years. I'm selling some stuff in the marketplace and will likely be taking BTC as payment for some of the items. If I receive Bitcoins at a Coinbase account and immediately sell them for USD, how does this type of transaction affect my taxes?

I'm particularly interested because I intend to use these funds to help with the down payment of a house, and I need everything to be as above board and responsibly done as possible.

Thanks for any input you can provide!

P.S. I hope this is the appropriate section to post in, as I consider this to be "Doing business with Bitcoin".. and I suppose there's an element of trading as I expect to liquidate the BTC immediately.

[NOTE: I was able to get access to my old account @bmoconno again, if you wish to talk about anything I have for sale please send PMs to that username as this one suffers from newbie-account-syndrome.]

NOTE: I was able to get access to my old account @bmoconno again, if you wish to talk about anything I have for sale please send PMs to that username as this one suffers from newbie-account-syndrome.


I'm trying to get money together to buy a house, so I'm going to be selling off some of my old crypto collectables.

UPDATE 10-18-20: I've placed an offer on a house! If the offer is accepted, I probably won't need to sell off any other collectables... but if it's not, I'll start new postings for the remaining 2014 Kialara Originals and the 2015 Kialara Gold.

Currently I have this 2014 Kialara Original #389/2500 up for sale on eBay at https://www.ebay.com/itm/133542311724 SOLD

In addition to this 2014 Kialara, I will also be selling #386, #387 and #388 and 2015 Kialara Gold #31

Here are images of the other pieces I will be selling. The 2014 Originals are like the one listed on eBay (never funded, but small scratches from being packed/stored together) and the 2015 Gold doesn't have any scratches (because of the sleeve and the move to steel instead of aluminum for the housing).

Since this account is still a "newbie" I can't embed images, so here are links. Also thanks to -doubleU- for the suggestion to add a picture with my username and today's date.

everything with username and date

2014 Kialara Original #386 - UPDATE: Being sold to teeGUMES 10-12-20
386 front
386 back

2014 Kialara Original #387
387 front
387 back

2014 Kialara Original #388
388 front
388 back

2015 Kialara Gold #31
31 front
31 back