The rule change does not care that your old spreadsheet treated every wallet like one big soup. Starting with 2025 activity, U.S. crypto investors are pushed toward per-wallet cost basis tracking under IRS Rev. Proc. 2024-28. The comfortable universal-pool method a lot of people used for years is not the future. If you DIY this with vibes, you can allocate basis to the wrong venue and invent gains or erase losses. That is how a heater year becomes an overstated bill and a crash year becomes a missed opportunity. CoinLedger has been moving users through cost-basis reallocation and per-wallet logic so 2025-and-later activity can be calculated the way the procedure expects. The product still has to be pointed at complete data. Garbage in, legally interesting garbage out. This is exactly where a team earns its keep. We confirm wallets are connected, transfers are linked, and the reallocation snapshot is not fighting a pile of uncategorized deposits. You do not need to become an IRS proced...
If the year tried to humble you, harvesting is how you answer without revenge-trading the pain. Tax-loss harvesting in crypto is simple in theory. Sell or otherwise realize a position below basis, lock the loss, and use it against gains. In practice your bags live on four platforms and you cannot see the lots. CoinLedger shows the inventory: what is underwater, what already realized, what is still sitting there waiting for a decision. That visibility is the difference between a strategy and a mood. A warning in plain language: wash-sale rules for crypto have been a moving political target, and your facts matter. Do not treat a blog post like a green light to manufacture losses. Treat CoinLedger as the map and a professional as the navigator. Extreme loss years are when this conversation gets real. People either ignore the account or they overtrade trying to 'make it back.' The third path is documentation. Realize what you intend to realize. Record it. File it. Our team will n...