Taxing bitcoin sound perfectly legit to me, but taxing shitcoin? I think they got a lot of paperwork to do, will IRS accept crypto to be part of the tax payment? We can tossing thousands of shitcoin to them with just a click of button.

Has ANYONE who has received one of IRS letters NOT BEEN part of the group who got the notification from Coinbase.

However, anecdotal evidence on social media suggests that the 10,000+ affected are the Coinbase users whose details were shared with the IRS after an IRS summons forced the exchange to hand over names, birth dates, taxpayer IDs, addresses, and transactions histories of approximately 13,000 customers in February 2018.

A bitcoin investor who received a letter shared their experience talking to an IRS agent about the notices and was able to provide further insight into who the notices were sent to.

Under the username “zipzapbloop”, the Coinbase user stated on Reddit: “I just got off the phone with a very kind IRS agent who explained much of what we've already gathered. If you got 6174 or 6174-A, then unless you have good reason to believe you didn't comply, then treat the letters as essentially informational. She stated that their resources are very limited and even said that the letters were sent to some 13,000 who had Coinbase accounts. Yes, she actually said "Coinbase accounts."

If they're going to ask those 10,000 Americans to pay for the tax, I think it's a one step forward for legalising cryptocurrency. Is it right or not? Because they're trying to regulate bitcoin by paying taxes.

But I'm curious on what's inside those letters. And why only 10,000. I bet more than that are using crypto.

Did you read what happened?
It looks like it's only 10K because Coinbase only gave them about 13k names. And that was kicking and screaming, with coinbases lawyers fighting it every step of the way.
So out of 13k people some probably paid all the taxes and some were below some threshold for some reason.

The rest got letters.

-Dave