"Also, you should give users the option to decide whether they want to consider crypto-to-crypto transactions as in-kind (and not a taxable event) for 2017 (US

"Also, you should give users the option to decide whether they want to consider crypto-to-crypto transactions as in-kind (and not a taxable event) for 2017 (US residents)." Don't most official statements make it clear that crypto-to-crypto transactions are indeed taxable events in the United States?