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 not cheerlead a dump. We will tell you what CoinLedger sees and how a loss, once realized and classified, shows up on the report.
The chart already voted. Harvesting is how you stop the year from being only damage. Run it through CoinLedger. Then decide with a clear lot list instead of a wounded ego.
This post is educational marketing, not tax, legal, or investment advice. Crypto is volatile. Gains and losses are both taxable events in the U.S. when you dispose of an asset. Rules change. Talk with a qualified tax professional about your own facts before you file.