Quote from: sykal on March 26, 2014, 03:30:31 AM

Quote from: amspir on March 26, 2014, 03:25:44 AM

Quote from: sykal on March 26, 2014, 03:13:44 AM

this is all great and fine with everyones examples of 1 BTC...but what about the other 99% of us who mine like .1/.2/.3 btc/day for example.

We're now supposed to keep track on every fraction of BTC we receive as well as the current price we receive that at? that's almost impossible.

Look at your receiving address(es) that you use for mining on blockchain.info. It will show all of the time and amounts of received btc. I'm pretty sure that the blockchain.info api has a function to show what it was worth at the time of the transaction, since my android blockchain wallet will tell me the "now" and "then" values in USD on each transaction.

Not impossible if you have a computer connected to the internet and your receiving address(es).

So what happens when you sell? You have accumulated coins over the months, but how do you know which particular coins you are selling? Maybe you're selling 5% of the coins you mined at $600, 2% of the coins mined at $630, 6% of the coins you mined at $510

Do you see where I'm going with this?

I have an accountant who used to work for the IRS doing my taxes, and she said to use a FIFO type system. First in, first out. It's not as complicated as some of you are making it out to be.

That was before this ruling though, we haven't talked in depth about the tax situation since this, though she did give me a heads up on the IRS statement.