If you just buy crypto coins with dollars, hold, and later sell, it's treated the same way as a stock. But if you get paid in BitCoin for services rendered, or

If you just buy crypto coins with dollars, hold, and later sell, it's treated the same way as a stock. But if you get paid in BitCoin for services rendered, or you trade one coin for another, that's a taxable event. It's complicated and you probably need a tax expert to do it right (I certainly don't qualify).