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Not a crypto person, but is it a situation where one may have crypto and wants to invest it without converting it to USD/CAD/JPY/etc.. and paying taxes on it?

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Certainly in the UK, but probably in many places, conversion of any kind triggers capital gains tax.

You still have to pay capital gains taxes on direct crypto->crypto transactions.

"have to" is very aspirational in that sentence

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