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It depends whether your cryptocurrency was considered earned income or treated as property sales.
Cryptocurrency received as payment for goods and services is taxed as earned income:
Cryptocurrency sold, exchanged, spent or converted, is treated as sale of property:
Cryptocurrency received as income, and then held and sold for profit, is taxed as both:
If you were paid in cryptocurrency, you'd first pay taxes on the earned income. Then, if you later sold it for a profit, you'd pay the capital gains tax (short or long-term, depending on how long you held it). You'd also need to keep track of the value it had when you got it, and when you sold/used it.
As an example: If you were paid in cryptocurrency on Monday, and then used it to pay for something else on Friday, you'd have to know what it was worth during both days in order to calculate if you needed to report a gain or a loss. In this case, it would be like paying for something with stock instead of cash.
to report capital gains, select 'I'll type it in myself".
Since you don't have a 1099-B your sales category is C or F.
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