
Author & Podcaster
NYT bestselling author and co-host of The Bad Crypto Podcast (10M+ downloads).
Joel Comm is a New York Times, USA Today, and BusinessWeek bestselling author and a recognized voice in crypto and Web3. He co-hosts The Bad Crypto Podcast, one of the most downloaded blockchain shows in the world (10M+ downloads since 2017), co-created the Blockchain Heroes NFT collection, and hosts The AI for Everyone Show. He has been building online businesses since 1995 — which means he has lived through the NFT cycle, and the losses, alongside everyone else reading this.
NFTs are treated as property by the IRS. Here's when you owe tax, when you can claim a loss, how cost basis works, and what to do about airdrops and worthless collections.
A dead NFT isn't a deduction until you realize the loss and can document it. Here are the ways to realize it, and the market-death evidence a CPA needs to support the claim.
How to turn a wallet of underwater NFTs into real tax savings before year-end: how losses offset gains, the $3,000 rule, carryforwards, and the timing that makes it work.