Thank you.  I think I have the CoinbaseImporter set up properly but it is 
saying it can't import beangulp.  


On Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 1:04:42 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

> If you're new to both Beancount and Python, it could be ambitious to get 
> deep into this experimental package :)  But no harm in giving it a try!
>
> I will write some installation/getting-started docs on github and then get 
> back to you.  Thanks for the interest!
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 11:28 AM CDT <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm relatively new to Python scripting and have been hand entering things 
>> while I'm learning, but this looks very interesting considering the volume 
>> of transactions that can occur with cryptos when the bull market heats up.
>>
>> How do I install this?  (I'm using Windows 11 but I can use pip on 
>> command line)
>>
>> On Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 6:23:37 PM UTC-5 [email protected] 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It's 2024, so, time to dust off Magicbeans and prepare 2023 taxes -- 
>>> hope folks don't mind me bumping this thread.  If anyone else is interested 
>>> in using Beancount to track crypto transactions, take a look below and if 
>>> you're willing to beta-test and help develop, feel free to reach out to me.
>>>
>>> best,
>>> eric
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 3:49 AM Chary Chary <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for clarification
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 5:30:39 PM UTC+1 [email protected] 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No worries.  I suspect that a lot of crypto traders/investors fall 
>>>>> into these categories:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Casual users who make minimal trades on one or two exchanges.  These 
>>>>> are probably adequately served by existing commercial offerings like 
>>>>> cointracker.io etc.
>>>>> - Professional traders who already have some other professional 
>>>>> commercial trade recording/reporting software.
>>>>>
>>>>> For people in between, who are doing something more complex (multiple 
>>>>> exchanges, offline wallets, mining income, large numbers of transactions 
>>>>> or 
>>>>> lots) but are not professional traders, I suspect that probably most tax 
>>>>> returns are full of errors that neither the filers nor the IRS are 
>>>>> readily 
>>>>> able to untangle.  If the amounts are low, then it's not worth either of 
>>>>> their time.  If the amounts are large, I am not sure.  I talked to a tax 
>>>>> preparer, asking how one would verify the numbers, and he said that 
>>>>> probably you'd have to engage a mid-to-large accounting firm and hand 
>>>>> them 
>>>>> your raw data -- not sure how they would analyze it.  He also said that 
>>>>> with the IRS it would probably be a bit hit and miss how an auditor would 
>>>>> handle or analyze it -- they probably wouldn't be reading one's Python 
>>>>> code, no :)
>>>>>
>>>>> My goal with Magicbeans was to generate PDF reports which lay out the 
>>>>> lots in both inventories and transactions such that one could actually 
>>>>> manually match everything up, even if it would be tedious.  The goal was 
>>>>> to 
>>>>> be able to walk into an IRS office with that report and be able to 
>>>>> justify 
>>>>> the cap gains/losses of any sale someone questions.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 1:11 PM Chary Chary <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I know this is an offtopic, but I am just wondering: if it takes that 
>>>>>> much efforts plus python programming skills to file a tax return, then:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - How do other people (mortals) do it?
>>>>>>    - How on the earth someone is able to verify it? One can't 
>>>>>>    imagine a tax officer debugging a Python code?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 8:57:27 PM UTC+2 [email protected] 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I recently filed my 2022 tax return using Magicbeans 
>>>>>>> <https://github.com/ericaltendorf/magicbeans/> to do detailed lot 
>>>>>>> tracking and capital gains/losses reporting for my crypto assets.  
>>>>>>> Magicbeans is a set of tools (importers and report generation tools) 
>>>>>>> built 
>>>>>>> around Beancount.  I wrote it because I was not satisfied with the 
>>>>>>> accuracy 
>>>>>>> or transparency of existing commercial services for crypto tax 
>>>>>>> reporting.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Although I was confident enough in the numbers to file my return, I 
>>>>>>> am equally confident there's a lot of latent issues in the software.  I 
>>>>>>> am 
>>>>>>> looking for folks who (1) are interested in better tools for crypto 
>>>>>>> transaction tracking, (2) are willing to beta-test and debug some rough 
>>>>>>> software, and (3) are skilled enough devs (Python) to also contribute 
>>>>>>> fixes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hope to hear from someone out there... :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --eric
>>>>>>>
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