Responded somewhere else; but to be fair hard forks should be unrealized gain with 0 cap gains. IF/when someone wants to cash out is when they should pay the ta

Responded somewhere else; but to be fair hard forks should be unrealized gain with 0 cap gains. IF/when someone wants to cash out is when they should pay the tax. It resolves the bad actor issue with scam coins; meets the need to pay tax on gains and ultimately saves everyone in bitcoin land (or other crypto for that matter) from inadvertently not declaring income. It's a win win for everyone; including the IRS. This is the most common sense approach and it stuns me that many of the couch / tax advisers are positioning otherwise.