Some issues, some solutions, and general thoughts about rp2 HOT 4 CLOSED

Thanks for the long thread and for taking the time to share your experience with RP2 and your research on the topic of crypto taxes! It will take me a few days to respond properly because I'm out of town right now, but I wanted to share my appreciation for the detailed feedback!

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I'm glad this question reappeared: it looked like your account was not accessible for a long time, and this question disappeared for me so I couldn't follow up. However today I noticed it reappeared in the issue page. Most of the things you mentioned have been fixed in the last few months. I'll respond in more detail in the next few days.

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Let me reiterate that I really appreciated your detailed message. Even though it disappeared when your account became non-accessible, I managed to keep a copy of it, which helped inspire some of the development. So thanks for taking the time to provide such good feedback!

Here is my reply:

• Fee-only transactions are now fully supported.
• How to represent In/Out/Intra fees: the missing deduction problem has been fixed (see issue #6) and also read the FAQ on fees and how to represent them in RP2. DaLI doesn't use amounts to match transactions, it uses the unique id field: see the "Transaction Resolution" section in https://github.com/eprbell/dali-rp2/blob/main/docs/configuration_file.md#manual-section-csv (more technical details on this in the developer documentation of the transaction resolver)
• Liquidity mining/Staking: see various DeFI FAQs under "Tax Scenarios"
• Data pre-processing. DaLI is actually quite powerful:
  • it reads data from multiple CSV or REST sources,
  • it joins and normalizes all this data,
  • it matches partial transactions into complete ones (e.g. two ends of a transfer),
  • it fills in missing data if needed (e.g. spot price),
  • it generates inputs for RP2 (ODS and config).
    It does all this by means of a programmable plugin architecture: anybody can contribute new input format or pair converter plugins. The "converter that takes a .csv file and turns it into an input file" is already there: see the Manual Plugin. The conversion of special crypto events like coin conversion or DeFI transactions can be handled in the exchange-specific input plugin, which knows all the details of what can be done on that specific exchange and how to best translate it into RP2 primitives.
• Output reports. I think much of what you suggest is already available in the Summary tab of the full_report output: you can sort the table in different ways to group the specific data you're interested in (by date, crypto, transaction type, etc.). Whatever else is missing could be added in the form of an RP2 output plugin.
• Historical coin price download. This is already there as a DaLI feature: see pair converter plugins.

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Closing the issue. I invite you to check the latest version of RP2 and DaLI, which incorporate a lot of your feedback. Feel free to open a new issue if you have more feedback.

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