Buy and Sell Cryptocurrency

You’ve finally reached the point in the book you’ve been waiting for, if you haven’t skipped previous chapters to get to this point: how you can actually buy and sell cryptocurrency—really exchange fiat currency with cryptocurrency—and buy actual real stuff and services with it.

And yet, because I want you to be fully informed, I start this chapter with an explanation of legal and tax issues you may face that you should fully understand before you buy your first fraction of e-cash.

Examine Legal and Tax Issues

Cryptocurrency is a brave new world, despite its practical existence spanning back over a decade. It’s only as the received valuation climbed from modest sums to over a trillion dollars and cryptocurrency systems ...

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