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by spaceheeder 3489 days ago
CmdrSprinkles is incorrect: at least in the United States, mining and other forms of receiving Bitcoins are no different in principle from receiving large quantities of other non-dollar goods or currencies that have an estimable dollar value.

The Bitcoin wiki article on this is incomplete, but informative[0].

[0]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tax_compliance#Are_bitcoins_taxab...