I completely agree. But what would stop someone from claiming that coins that are moved from a monitored address aren’t theirs anymore due to prior physical transfer? Maybe I’m late to this realization, but wouldn’t the capacity to transfer bitcoin physically (created by coinkite products such as satscards) deem on-chain transactions useless as a reliable method to record spending for tax purposes. In other words, unless the receiving address is known (which would automatically identify the transaction type), there is no longer a way to affirm with certainty that moving coins from an address one may initially have owned means that the initial owner is subject to the consequences which that transaction may entail.

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In other words, did CoinKite screw the IRS single-handedly the day they enabled the world to transfer #bitcoin physically? Not sure what block height this happened at, but from that block onward, no holder can technically be held responsible for an address initially associated with them.
Yes, hypothetically I guess one could make the claim that they no longer own those sats in some future tax court. However, it’s not some silver bullet that thwarts the state from making bunk claims with misinterpreted Chainalysis data (see Hamas crypto funding debacle.) And as it currently stands, the low hanging fruit from a tax standpoint is legacy on and off ramps, not P2P transactions, where things like the satscard sits or opendime sit. Just some thoughts.