{"id":4030,"date":"2026-06-16T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/not-all-cryptocurrencies-are-the-same-why-a-blanket-tax-on-crypto-misses-the-heart-of-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:39:20","slug":"not-all-cryptocurrencies-are-the-same-why-a-blanket-tax-on-crypto-misses-the-heart-of-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/not-all-cryptocurrencies-are-the-same-why-a-blanket-tax-on-crypto-misses-the-heart-of-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Not all cryptocurrencies are the same \u2013 why a blanket tax on crypto misses the heart of the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1781602703174{margin-top: -50px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #F7931A !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Not all cryptocurrencies are the same<\/span><\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1781602723101{margin-top: -50px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #F7931A !important;}&#8221;]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Why flat-rate crypto taxes miss the heart of the problem<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<p data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"344\">In political discourse, the term \u201ccryptocurrencies\u201d is often used as if it were a single, uniform asset class. This often leads to calls for all cryptocurrencies to be taxed differently in the future than they have been in the past.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"346\" data-end=\"382\">But that&#8217;s exactly where the problem begins.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"384\" data-end=\"724\">Today, the term \u201ccryptocurrencies\u201d encompasses thousands of very different projects, technologies, and use cases. Bitcoin, stablecoins, tokenized stocks, utility tokens, memecoins, and even future central bank digital currencies are often lumped together, even though they serve completely different economic functions. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"726\" data-end=\"837\">Anyone discussing the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies should therefore first answer the following question:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"839\" data-end=\"873\"><strong data-start=\"839\" data-end=\"873\">Which cryptocurrencies, exactly?<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1781602703174{margin-top: -50px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #F7931A !important;}&#8221;] Not all cryptocurrencies are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoin-bundesverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}