Re:Why I’m Cryptophobic
by wuliwong on Thursday June 30, 2022 @10:45AM
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To me, the stronger government intervention is taxing the use of cryptocurrencies (or pretty much anything except dollars in the US) when buying something with it. There is a capital gains tax event that happens if you buy something with BTC, for example. So you have to pay extra to use non-dollars for transactions but also a regular person's taxes would become extremely complicated if they used non-dollars for all their transactions.
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Excellent point. This also lends to it being easier for US tax subjects to use the dollar as a unit of account and ignore its (small, but not insignificant and always trending downward) value changes. I think a crypto wallet app that optimized for this problem would be super valuable, e.g. making doing taxes of these transactions seamless, and suggesting paying using a currency that is optimal for taxes (e.g. realizing a loss if that is possible, because then your purchase would come with a tax credit.) There are also efforts by legislators to enable de minimis exemptions for crypto transactions (taxes waived if the transaction size is sufficiently small)