Everyone who is in any way related to the world of cryptocurrencies is a trailblazer by default. Just like the first people to own cars, the first people to use internet, and now cryptocurrency users, we are met with an (un)fair amount of suspicion, confusion, prosecution, slander, interest, and all sorts of things, which not many are positive. When ever I have mentioned that I even have a fraction of Bitcoin, the reaction hardly even is positive. But don't worry, I don't hang out with people like that much. They can go to trash and weep in ten years when they have missed the boat and owe their life to the bank (government).

Everyone knows that Finland has very high taxes, and while nobody of course wants to pay them, we have to so that we can have the "free" education, "free" healthcare and all around safe society to live in. I'm fine with that, though I'm not fine with funding someone who doesn't want to work themselves and other people pay high taxes to support their life. I'm very much a capitalist in that sense.

What pisses me off is that if I was a lazy leftist asshole, I would for one, make A LOT more money than I do with blogging, and I wouldn't have to do ANYTHING. I could lay on the sofa, drink beer, watch Netflix and get something like 1200€/month from the government. Fun times. Okay, I would occasionally have to try and get a job, fail on the interview and then return to the sofa, maybe every once in a while fill out a new form online so that the money keeps coming in without me having to work.

Instead, I try and make due in this new world of cryptocurrency, pay my bills and pay my taxes like the good girl I am, working every day of the year. And let me tell ya, it ain't easy, especially the tax paying part because nobody seems to have a fucking clue about it.

During the time that I have been in any way involved in cryptocurrency world, the taxation law about cryptocurrencies has changes twice, the resent (and most reasonable one) was just last week, so there are three different versions and I'm not sure which one to follow and for what time frame, and not only that, there is of course not only one way of making money with cryptos, so that is a challenge too.

There is information about how to file your taxes if you earn by blogging, with paid sponsorships, brand gifts, ads and paid trips, and how you can write off something like buying a camera or transportations costs. Then there are the guidelines for people who mine cryptos, and then a separate guide for those who invest and trade. What I do is basically a mix of all of those, so it's really fucking confusing. To my knowledge, the tax office isn't even aware that it's a possibility to earn cryptocurrencies by blogging, so there are no definite, straightforward guides for that that I could follow.

I seem to be the only one in Finland who is currently earning cryptocurrencies by blogging. There are of course other Finnish people in here, but to my knowledge, they haven't sold anything or traded, so I don't think they have had to deal with these issues related to taxation yet.

It also doesn't help that I earn two different currencies here, their value in fiat changes every second, I get a lot of tiny earnings during the course of 24 hours. I can't even buy anything with them, I have to trade it to Bitcoin first, which I can't use for anything either, and I gotta sell that shit for fiat before there is anything to show for it. What a fucking mess. I really wish for the day when I don't have to do any of the extra nonsense and I can pay for my groceries in Steem. One can dream.

I've been on the phone all morning to try and get a hold of someone in the Finnish tax office that is a professional on the taxation of cryptocurrencies. I'm pretty sure there is like one person who knows anything about it and he might be a bit busy. I've talked to three different people in the course of a month and they just keep reading to me from their website because they don't know anything more than I do. The jingle that plays when you wait to get through to someone on the tax office is really starting to get on my nerves, and so it the fact that I had to turn off the silent mode on my phone so I will have some change of answering the phone if they ever call me back.

I don't want to sound like I'm laying blame on anyone in the tax office or the law makers in Finland, because they can't be blamed for something they don't have enough knowledge of and with the rapidly advancing technology, it's a cat and mouse of both the users of cryptocurrencies and the law makers, one making a move and other one having to catch up. And to give a little credit to the people I have managed to get a call through in the tax office, everyone has been very very helpful, even though they have hardly even heard of Bitcoin.

Adulting sucks and I don't wanna do it anymore! It would be so much easier to be a normal slave labourer in the kitchen like I used to be.

I have a month to file my taxes for last year and I intend to make someone blush in the tax office before that by telling them I make cryptos by showing my boobs on the blockchain and I don't know how to file my taxes for that.

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_{Disclaimer: I am not an expert in cryptocurrencies, law, or taxation, so nothing I say here should be used as the truth or as a guideline on how to report your crypto gains (or losses) to the tax officers. I am in the process of finding all that out, but I am sure the law will keep on changing in the years to come and it's going to be really hard for a long time before everything settles to something reasonable.}

_{Ps. I also suck at math.}