No, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP Traders Don’t Need To List Their Crypto Wallets For The IRS, But…
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A viral social media claim suggesting the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is forcing all taxpayers to list their cryptocurrency wallets is false, though the episode has revived broader concerns about how federal agencies handle digital-asset privacy.
A viral post showed an IRS document asking a taxpayer to list all their currencies, such as Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), Litecoin (CRYPTO: LTC), and Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP), along with each public key and who has access to the private keys.
The image received hundreds of thousands of views, with many users insisting the IRS was demanding public-key disclosure from…
