This post is for people who file taxes in the U.S. and want to be in compliance.
For those of you who refuse to have anything to do with taxes and laws, that's fine.  But this post isn't for you.
Some of you still may not be able to refrain from replying ph*ck the IRS bitcoin's gonna burn their shit down, or words to that effect.  Whatever.

The IRS has made a very big change in the calculation of crypto capital gains, which will phase in completely in 2026.
2025 is a transition year that the IRS calls "safe harbor."  The process of transitioning to the new capital gains tax calculation regime by way of this safe harbor is pretty complicated, but what did you expect from the IRS?
First you have to choose an allocation method for assigning basis to your coin holdings, and it has to be done wallet by wallet -- no longer are your coins in one big heap, so to speak, but every wallet has to have the capital gains on the coins sold from it calculated separately.
The two methods of assigning basis to your sells are:  global allocation, and specific identification.  You choose one allocation method and it applies to all your wallets.  A "wallet" can be a private wallet ("unhosted") or a custodial account like an exchange.
If you use global allocation, each wallet has to have its capital gains/losses calculated by FIFO.  So you'll need a strategy, like putting coins with a high cost basis in one wallet and coins with a low cost basis in another wallet.  That way you can sell from the wallet with the high basis coins, in order to lower your taxes.  If all your coins were in one wallet, the FIFO requirement would draw on the oldest basis, without regard to whether it's high or low.  And since older coins might have lower cost basis, you could end up paying more tax on them.
If you use specific allocation, you choose the cost basis for the tax calculation of every transaction.  And you have to declare the allocation before you sell.
The extra control this gives you might sound good, but it could make doing your taxes a monster headache if you have more than a just few transactions.

This is how I understand it.  Do your own due diligence.

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Dude, Bitcoin Beavers is masterluc.  The OP who started this thread years ago.

I don't waste time trying to predict short term pumps and reversals.  It's all about the halving cycle.  For buying, wait at least a year after an ATH.  For selling, I have an algorithm for timing the peaks at the end of bull markets.  Yup, you heard me right.  I time the tops.  This only happens once about every four years.

Cramer is irrelevant.   As Wolfgang Pauli once said about another physicist, Cramer is so bad that he's not even wrong.

I was in Mexico for December, January and February.  I took long, hot showers every day.  I started getting a rash after a couple of months, but didn't understand why.  I thought maybe there were fleas in some of the hotels I was staying in.
I kept taking long, hot showers.
The full-body rash still hasn't gone away.  I think it was caused by the Mexican water.
The public water in Mexico, with very few exceptions, or maybe even no exceptions, is real bad.
Maybe worse than countries I've traveled in that are even more third-worldy, Cambodia for instance.
I lived in New York City for decades and drank tap water every day.  NYC has some of the best tap water in the world, especially considering that it sits at sea level.
The water comes from upstate aquifers which are heavily regulated.  They're working on a third water tunnel now.
People who live in countries with clean tap water should be grateful.

I think that Bitcoin Magazine might be using the official exchange rate of about 460 Naira to the dollar.
Nobody will ever sell you dollars at 460 Naira to the dollar.  I doubt that even the Nigerian government would do that, despite the fact that it's the official exchange rate, because the Naira isn't worth anywhere near that much.
The Naira goes for about 750 to the dollar on the street, according to my cursory online searching.
I've never been to Nigeria nor exchanged Naira, but I've been to Argentina several times and exchanged money there.  The Argentine government will be happy to buy your dollars at the official exchange rate.  You will never in this life pry dollars out of the hands of the government at the official exchange rate.
In countries with weak currency, high inflation and capital controls, the official exchange rate is a complete fiction and merely a tool of financial oppression.
Unfortunately, some people will base their economic analyses on that exchange rate.
The question is, how much are people really paying for bitcoin in Nigeria?

"hoarding" formerly known as "saving"

Ukrainian people kill Russian people.  Works for me!

Save time by skipping JJG's posts.
Works for me.

The reptilian overlord's true form

Sorry I stirred it.

I recommend editing your posts to put that stuff in a code window like this
Make it easier on everybody and increase your chances of getting a response.
The code window button is the one with a hashmark on it.

I've had a lot of these notifications about database breaches.  My credit rating is 835.

Всё-таки затяжная медвежатина это реальность. Очень бы хотелось ещё на соточку сходить, но увы и ах. Все таки на недельных разворотная фигура двойной топ. Эта вся хуйня будет падать на 9к. Brace...

Still, lingering bear meat is a reality. I would very much like to go another hundred, but alas, ah. All the same, on the weekly double top reversal pattern. All this bullshit will fall on 9k. Brace...

Can one of the Russian speakers please confirm or disconfirm whether Beaver is saying bitcoin's price could hit $9k?

Don't miss the train.

That brings back memories.  I used to own an old beater truck that had the check engine light always on, which meant it wouldn't pass inspection.  Taping over the light was no good since it would have been totally obvious, so I took the dashboard off and stuck the tape inside.  Totally impossible to see it.  And it passed inspection.

anybody know what's going on with Bitcoincharts dot com?  It's been down for days with a 500 Internal Server Error

I assume it was on reddit.com/r/Monero, but I can't find it.

A private investigator who does missing persons searches and accepts Monero posted here, or somewhere, offering his services.  Anybody has a link?