Monday, July 27, 2020

How to get transaction history for a ledger Bitcoin address

Hey so I'm an Aussie and we've got the mother of all regulations on crypto here. Our federal tax office wants every transaction, from every address, all of the fees, the prices of all tokens involved in AUD at the time of transaction. Etc. Etc.

Long story short, I need to get alot of data for my tax agent. And the bit I'm up to, is getting the bitcoin transactions in CSV form, from my ledger. The built in 'export transactions as CSV' feature on ledger live doesn't have enough data to satiate Australian tax regulations. However, looking up the Ethereum wallet addresses listed on ledger live with something like etherscan, does provide me with enough info to export as a CSV. I get a nice list of transactions in and out of that wallet address, fees, times etc.

I need the same thing for my Bitcoin addresses. But when I look them up on the public blockchain with something like blockstream, I get this giant list of fractured data, with confirmations and all kinds of unnecessary info, but not the essential stuff, like a transaction history. It's hard to even find the total balance for a single wallet, that I can easily see on ledger live.

Does anyone know how to get a nice, linear transaction history from a Bitcoin address, complete with fees, time, hash number etc. So I can give it to the tax man?

And for other Aussies out there suffering, if I can tie up this last loose end ill do up a little guide for the rest of us trying to get through this shit



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