Filing Bitcoin Trades with the IRS

For those of you out there who traded bitcoin and prefer doing your own taxes through turbox tax may find the following fairly useful. This is a response from a page on their forums. I’m providing the important points here and a link at the bottom:

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This was taken from: https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/4240094-i-have-over-2k-crypto-trades-to-report-i-used-bitcoin-tax-to-get-my-overall-gain-loss-and-generate-8949-but-do-i-have-to-enter-each-trade-how-do-i-report-a-summary

I just wanted to capture these instructions in case that page every gets removed. It’s important to keep a record 🙂