Certainly moving coins back and forth triggers a taxable transaction that you would not get if you adopted a "HODL" strategy. It may not make sense that you are paying 3k in taxes on 3k in gains, but there is a difference between what you are considering gains and what the IRS considers "realized gains." Gains are only realized when you have a taxable transaction, like exchanging one coin for another. If you hold on to the same coin, the gain is built-in, but does not get realized until you actually sell it.
If you started the year with 50k in coins and now have 53k with a realized, taxable gain of 9,000, it would mean that your basis in your 53,000 in coins is 50,000 + the 9,000 you are reporting on your 2021 taxes. So if you were to sell them all, you would have a $6,000 loss to report in 2022. That built-in loss is still there, no matter what happens to your holdings. If they appreciate up to $70,000 and you sell them, you are only realizing $11,000 of the gain in 2022 because you already realized $9,000 of it in 2021. This is a gross over-simplification, but hopefully it helps understand what's going on a little better.
@Elvin1924
