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Why is crypto so special? Don't you just report realized gains as investment income and let the tax software do its thing?

Short answer is that it doesn't. Form 8949 has zero support.

...or maybe it's better to have simple ads supporting a straightforward code hosting site rather than allowing your code to be ingested into some AI model, or whatever other hidden uses, and used against your will by Microsoft?

If you are relying on Turbotax, you are making a big mistake. I think they have stopped improving it much and now just "milk the cow" mode. I can think of 10 thousand improvements but each year they are same old same old. So I went to a very competent CPA just to double check if TT was maxing out. It turned out that I was losing significantly in TT. For example, TT did not identified wrong cost basis that often comes from the brokers like Fidelity. CPA noticed them in a second. TT also failed to make sure I was saving on taxes paid to state by various channels. If you are giving IRS more than $10K in taxes, it is worth finding and hiring a CPA who often charges less than $500.

> can handle importing and calculating profit/loss for hundreds of day trades across multiple brokerages with wash sale logic

Excel?

Seriously, that sounds like a pretty simple spreadsheet to me. (Although you probably don't want to actually do it in Excel, 365*"hundreds" is a lot of rows)

Indeed, I generally associate those videos with low/0 effort YouTube content farms trying to make a quick buck on ad revenue.

Same, I would much rather have no audio. Or, better yet... just record it yourself, or find a friend willing to.

It's written in C. You can see the code here: https://sourceforge.net/p/opentaxsolver/SrcCodeRepo/HEAD/tre...