<p>Bitcoins exist as 'unspent transaction outputs' (UTXOs), not as an 'address with a balance'. If you really feel the need, you could import your keys into some wallet software which will allow you to exercise 'coin control', which means you will be able to pick and choose which UTXOs are used as inputs when creating a transaction. So then you could just choose all your UTXOs and send them to a new address in a single transaction, and then do the same for your wife's UTXOs.</p>
<p>But doing so will put your funds at additional risk, as you'll have to trust the new wallet software/device you import your wallet into. Mishandling private keys <em>can</em> lead to a loss of funds (theft), so you shouldn't do this unless you feel it is absolutely necessary.</p>
<p>Really, I would just create a transaction that pays you your share of the coins, and another transaction paying the remaining coins to your wife. Within a bitcoin transaction, it does not make any sense to point to some specific output and say <em>&quot;<strong>these</strong> bitcoins came from <strong>this</strong> specific input&quot;</em>. Rather, it is as if all of the input coins are melted down into one blob, and then the output coins are forged anew from this blob. So it doesn't make too much sense to worry about tracking 'your specific coins' through time, as each 'specific coin' is 'melted down' when it is used as input to a transaction.</p>
<p>Think about it like this: when you do your accounting, do you worry about the serial numbers printed on the $20 bills, or the value of them? Your bitcoin accounting can work in much the same way: how much bitcoin did you buy? How much did you sell? This is the relevant information.</p>
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<p>Will this work and be cool to the ATO?</p>
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<p>Questions about how to satiate the demands of any particular tax authority are going to be off-topic here, you'd do better asking an accountant or tax lawyer if you need such advice.</p>

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chytrik
<p>We were all newbs at the beginning, and did things the wrong way.
My partner and I bought crypto separately with our own exchange accounts, but transferred our hodl coins to a single shared hardward wallet address.
Using Koinly, we can easily determine which transaction in is for which (only 15-20 or so)
Problem/challenge is, how will this work when i transfer the coins out using FIFO, LIFO. We Koinly know which &quot;coins&quot; are which?
I have never actually transferred out from the hardware wallet, and i want to fix this.
I thought about transferring all coins out to our respective exchanges (at the same time), then back into new separate wallets. Will this work and be cool to the ATO?</p>
<p>Second question. Can you have a share wallet address for a masternode and split payouts/cost by the % coin holdings.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>

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2021-04-29T06:48:05.047Z
Taxes are going to be more straightforward, and less inviting to being questioned by the tax authorities, if you keep your accounts separate, unless you and your partner are married filing jointly.
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Shared crypto hardware wallet
Callum Mcclure
# Shared crypto hardware wallet

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-04-29)

We were all newbs at the beginning, and did things the wrong way.
My partner and I bought crypto separately with our own exchange accounts, but transferred our hodl coins to a single shared hardward wallet address.
Using Koinly, we can easily determine which transaction in is for which (only 15-20 or so)
Problem/challenge is, how will this work when i transfer the coins out using FIFO, LIFO. We Koinly know which "coins" are which?
I have never actually transferred out from the hardware wallet, and i want to fix this.
I thought about transferring all coins out to our respective exchanges (at the same time), then back into new separate wallets. Will this work and be cool to the ATO?

Second question. Can you have a share wallet address for a masternode and split payouts/cost by the % coin holdings.

Thanks

**Tags:** wallet, cryptography

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Taxes are going to be more straightforward, and less inviting to being questioned by the tax authorities, if you keep your accounts separate, unless you and your partner are married filing jointly.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-04-29. Score: 1

Bitcoins exist as 'unspent transaction outputs' (UTXOs), not as an 'address with a balance'. If you really feel the need, you could import your keys into some wallet software which will allow you to exercise 'coin control', which means you will be able to pick and choose which UTXOs are used as inputs when creating a transaction. So then you could just choose all your UTXOs and send them to a new address in a single transaction, and then do the same for your wife's UTXOs.

But doing so will put your funds at additional risk, as you'll have to trust the new wallet software/device you import your wallet into. Mishandling private keys *can* lead to a loss of funds (theft), so you shouldn't do this unless you feel it is absolutely necessary.

Really, I would just create a transaction that pays you your share of the coins, and another transaction paying the remaining coins to your wife. Within a bitcoin transaction, it does not make any sense to point to some specific output and say *"**these** bitcoins came from **this** specific input"*. Rather, it is as if all of the input coins are melted down into one blob, and then the output coins are forged anew from this blob. So it doesn't make too much sense to worry about tracking 'your specific coins' through time, as each 'specific coin' is 'melted down' when it is used as input to a transaction.

Think about it like this: when you do your accounting, do you worry about the serial numbers printed on the $20 bills, or the value of them? Your bitcoin accounting can work in much the same way: how much bitcoin did you buy? How much did you sell? This is the relevant information.

> Will this work and be cool to the ATO?

Questions about how to satiate the demands of any particular tax authority are going to be off-topic here, you'd do better asking an accountant or tax lawyer if you need such advice.


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