Out of hundreds of currencies, Iran chose to take payment in a dying Ponzi scheme that will be destroyed by quantum computers and is backed by nothing.
@jackmallers@Leishman y'all are leaders in the industry and I have faith you can eventually make Bitcoin taxes trivial to do like traditional brokerages and fintech companies have done for fiat.
@River@Strike either of you seriously needs to improve the tax situation on your platforms. Manually generating CSVs is a horrendous user experience.
Allow us us to link our hardware wallets securely so we don't lose our cost basis and make taxes trivial to get done.
@matt_w_forsythe@techdroider You are so full of shit. This is just an attempt to take away freedom disguised as "collective safety".
You're a bootlicker and a net negative contributor to civilization.
@Leishman@River River is great Alex. Ya'll just need to add read only APIs for automating taxes and you've got the entire feature set covered.
Hardware wallet integration with auto address generation and cost basis tracking when used exclusively with River is what I've been dreaming about.
Whether you try to discourage something, or do nothing, or try to encourage it -- or seem to do these things -- each of these actions or non-actions sends a signal, often a much more powerful signal than the actual security of your effort warrants.
Think about locks on your door. Would they stop a skilled and determined robber? No. Do they stop most unwanted visitors? Yes. Most predators just want dinner, and they will choose the least risky prey they can find.
Since this debate mostly lies in the area of the mempool and relay policy, it mostly isn't about strong security, it's more about the locked-door kind of security, or even just about traffic signs that guide people to the proper place. A strong security solution would obviously be much better, but the alternative to a strong security solution is not to do nothing -- it is to fall back on other methods. Methods that may be weak but that send a signal. The fact that you can't stop a determined and skilled attacker in this case should not stop us from trying to stop most of the behavior that could harm node operators individually or the network collectively.
See also https://t.co/b9QOa8iZN2
@jackmallers@Strike Appreciate everything you do Jack!
Any chance you could comment on any API integrations in the works for automating imports into tax software with this functionality?
@River Managing CSV files is highly prone to error and is a terrible customer experience. Most of your competitors offer API integrations to automate this functionality and they do it for cryptocurrency aside from Bitcoin as well.
For a Bitcoin focused company in 2025 this is lame.