Believe it or not there's still many people bagholding their BSV. Similarly to Craig Wright's problems, BSV backholders (and pretty much any shitcoin bagholder, specially forks) have too much of an ego to admit defeat. Those are exactly the people that go down with the ship. They had many opportunities to jump and get saved by dumping in exchange of Bitcoin while they had the opportunity to do so, but no, they thought they were going to defeat Bitcoin, they thought they were the real Bitcoin, they thought they were "the next big thing" and so on.
Once 2020 is here and absolutely nothing happens, they will look for excuses and keep kicking the can waiting for "the flippening".
You can't save CSW as much as you can't save shitcoin bagholders, they share the same insolvable problems.
A lot of people HODL BCH and BSV from their old BTC Addresses in the USA in that it is NOT clear yet how the IRS will tax this stuff falling from the sky! So it is better to just
let these sh*tcoin's ride, rather than move them out to something else and expose yourself to unknow tax problems or other issues. My CPA says you can't get burnt if you
just leave it the hell alone.
Anyway, what I'm doing and so others have said. Kinda a big Meh! It fell on a person's BTC Blockchain roof..if it stays and adds value somehow, well meh! If it slides off the
blockchain roof without any value someday, well meh! Most of us have missed so many boats since 2013 on either buy or sell or whatever at this point in time or that particular
coin launch (like ETH) that we are like the Pregnant Waitress waving at the fleet from the dock as they sail off to war, hoping someone waves back!
So again, meh!
Brad
For US Citizens.
If you decide to sell those coins for fiat at some date,
all you do is declare the entire fiat amount received that year as income.
Then it is taxed at your normal income rate.
No worries.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/how-to-find-out-what-tax-bracket-youre-in-under-the-new-tax-law.htmlFYI:
If those coins were held in a bitcoin address outside of the US,
And you sell them outside the US, you only have to report the amount over $105,900 to the IRS for 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_earned_income_exclusion Will do so if I have to, according to CPA, if the price dumps to Tulip Prices, etc. But the IRS question this year is the FORKS of all coins on the blockchain.
There is a chance, that the IRS (hating BTC and crypto and all) will count all that as income, AT THE TIME IT LANDS ON YOUR BLOCKCHAIN. Not big odds,
but if you wanted as the U.S. Government or IRS to put a crimp in Crypto Adoption that is how you would do so.
Also, likely, even though my CPA in 2013 and beyond said the IRS would NEVER do so. In the time before there were NO tools to use CSV etc to see profits
on mining and such and you had to figure stuff out by hand. It seems likely that the IRS will say you need to use 'modern tools' to the time/minute on all the
crypto you mined and exchanges and bought and sold, using such modern tools for all transactions back to 2009. KYC and Money Laundering don't ya know.
Most of us, use the figure DAILY average from say
www.coinmarketcap.com on a piece of paper.
Well, that is likely out the window and all tax forms by
I would have to be amended back to 2013! Assuming they want modern blockchain tools to use 'retro-actively' in their tax review this year. Again, using
modern tax links for CSV etc down to the last day/time/minute due to crypto volatility as their excuse.
For whatever reason, the usual IRS guidelines for only looking back 3 years for a not thinking their was a crime
and 7 years if they suspect something, has been tossed. At least from the compliance letters sent so far.
So no, most of us are just gonna leave the forks alone and when the IRS says I owe money on such forked coin, I will say, what the hell are you talking about
and I have no idea what people are doing dropping stuff on my blockchain and have MAYBE an out..if things get as stupid as I suspect.
Again, I'm likely paranoid, but in 2013 my banker called the SEC on me to be investigated because I bought a KNC Jupiter BTC miner via wire transfer and
all Bitcoin was 'drug money'. Was a fun 2 weeks with everyone looking at me like a 'desperado' when I went to use the bank. Thus got the CPA, the SEC guy
was like 'what am I doing here' on the voice phone. Was all cleared up. But the banker DID try to hang me out to dry on saying I had no taxes done, and I
slapped my 2013 (amended for crypto) tax forms down in his face. Needless to say, I've changed banks.
But, IMHO, we could have some really stupid rules come out 'hopefully only initially till found unworkable' from the IRS. So no, just leaving the stuff ride.
Before forks fell out of the sky they were worthless, maybe they will be worthless again, just not gonna poke the bear or the IRS by claiming such this year
to the IRS, not worth the hassle, again IMHO. In fact, this year is a clear year for me. No crypto sold. No Crypto mined. Some equip for income sold, but that is
it. One year of less drama with CPA lady is probably due after 6 years of crypto CPA manipulation.
Anyway, my view on forked coins sitting about on my BTC and/or other Crypto blockchains, that fell from the sky.
Brad