Hey everyone... wanted to get your feedback on best known methods of withdrawing USD from Crypt-Exchanges.
What I have been doing is moving ETH from Bittrex (where my mining operation sends the rewards) to my Coinbase ETH wallet, then selling a few here and there directly to my Coinbase USD wallet. I haven't actually withdrawn that USD yet but it seems pretty easy to do.
However, I am now considering selling some of my DCR (cashing out to USD) and trying to figure out the best way to do it. Of course, i could sell it on Bittrex, then transfer the resulting BTC Coinbase, then transfer that amount of BTC to my Coinbase USD wallet but that seems like a lot of steps. So, I was trying to figure out if it is possible to get USD directly from Bittrex, but can't quite get there. They do have a wallet called Tether that seems to be linked to USD, so I assume that I could sell DCR to BTC, then buy Tether with BTC, but then can I actually get Bittrex to send me real USD (via check, eft, etc) or is that Tether wallet just meant as a temporary holding place to wait out a down market or something? Couldnt seem to find the info on Bittrex about if its possible to actually cash out USD so any tips would be appreciated.
once it is in coinbase the irs will know you have it. i.e. reportable on a tax return. My thoughts are use it and go legit pay tax etc.
I can offer some advice lets say you have 3 btc on coinbase lets say most of the btc was transferred when btc was 2600
and you hold and coins drop to 2000 . So the 7800 dropped to 6000 which number do you think is the one the irs picks for you to use for taxes yep the 7800 .. So to pull from an exchange like bittrex and put into coinbase means you need to consider this.
Before the runup came from april I had 8 coins in coinbase I now have under .03 coins there.
as cashing them would protect me from a tax bill that I could not pay.
I will do my level best to avoid sending any coin to coin base other then a purchase from my bank account. until 2018
yes, i certainly understand the potential tax implications for cashing out via Coinbase... although i recently read that the challenge CB is putting up in court may have a reasonable chance of succeeding. Also, the basis issue is an interesting one... typically, like with stocks, your cost basis is easily trackable so that's what I pull and use to prepare my taxes and should the IRS ever feel they need check my measly profit, then can easily do so based on the UBS data, etc. However, with crypto, it's not that easy. Sure, I have an app on my phone where i track both all of my mining rewards as well as other crypto activities like buying BTC outride for usd and trades, etc. Maybe the IRS could somehow dig into mining pool's data to actually try to validate what a miner's true basis is but man, what a huge waste of effort (nothing new for the government i know)... BUT... when you start to talk about trading one crypto for another and how that affects your basis, it is something that probably not many people can even comprehend... myself included.
But aside from that, back to my original question...
is it possible to actually cash out USD from Bittrex?