I am neither lawyer, tax accountant nor financial adviser, thus all I can express (for the record) is an opinion here, and nothing I say should be interpreted as advice. Now that the obligatory disclaimer is out of the way (as I angrily shake my finger at the regulators and legislators of the world which make every step taken in online communications these days a perilous one)... my "opinion follows."
There is no "taxable event" if there is no "sale event."
Hi @jbgarrison72
I just realized that I never thanked you for your previous comment.
ps. I've also noticed that you didn't post anything in a while. Hope you're not giving up on Steemit.
Cheers
Piotr
Thanks @crypto.piotr, ...no, I'm not going anywhere. ^_^