Referral Code Payouts on Public Chains: How a Two-Year-Old Game Token Triggered a Tax Notice

https://misumiskincare.com/blogs/news/from-game-tokens-to-cashback-coins-where-crypto-quietly-turns-taxable

I remember the moment like it was yesterday: a tax notice arrives two years after I’d collected a handful of in-game tokens from a referral program. I thought those tokens were valueless fun. Turns out the IRS didn’t agree