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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Lucius
on 11/08/2025, 15:03:57 UTC
⭐ Merited by UnDerDoG81 (1)
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Thanks a lot!

Yes, in Germany the gains out of crypto are tax free after one year of holding. The issue I am afraid of is that I’ve bought them all over the place. Mt Gox. BTC-E. Two exchanges that do not exist anymore. And then some from Bitstamp. Some from Bitcoin.de. Another issue is, if they wanna see proof of where I got the money from back then to buy the Bitcoin. It was savings. How to prove savings. I’m just too paranoid of the German tax office. Technically I didn’t live in Germany since 2020 but I still pay my taxes there for my business income.

Gold is at an ATH, not sure how clever it is to buy that right now. Holding fiat as paper money is something I didn’t think of and I didn’t want to as well if it’s 6 digits. That’s not practical to travel with.

I guess best option is to cash out like 100k into my German bank account and see what happens. But the problem is the USD is too weak right now. Just few months ago 110k usd was like 106k Euros. Now $118k is 102k Euros. Would be perfect if the usd gets stronger the more we near the bull peak 😆

Even if you don't have proof when it comes to CEXs, maybe you can get printouts of transactions from banks - although I don't know how long they keep them. That would be proof that you bought Bitcoin then. The truth is that it would not be very practical to travel with EUR 100k in your bag, maybe if you had a hundred 1000 Swiss franc bills it would be easier Wink

Yes, maybe the best option is for the money to go to your bank account, but take into account where you will sell - because every CEX will probably cause you problems if you want to sell 1 BTC in such a way that they can ask you to prove the origin of those coins.

Whatever you do, I hope you won't have any problems - and maybe there will be some other ideas that can help you.