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nicehash-basis-tracker
Script to help you track your cost basis of BTC received from nicehash mining.
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Same story, bought an RX580 to build a budget gaming box, ended up mining with it to pay for the rig.
I switched to another pool that paid out less often after realizing the accounting nightmare that nicehash makes. I did make a cost basis tracker, not sure if the APIs still work tho: https://github.com/igmcdowell/nicehash-basis-tracker
As others said, you should pay taxes on the initial value of coins on receipt, but when you convert to fiat you only owe taxes on the change in value since you received it. You might even have a small loss at this point if the value of BTC dipped between receipt and sale.
Usual IANAL/Tax person disclaimer.
I'm a huge Moonlight fan so this is an issue for me as well, but just an FYI, a lot of people have good luck with Sunshine https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine - which is a Moonlight compatible host that uses ffmpeg (and works w/ AMD cards).
I'm in the market for an upgrade and will wait until Nov 3 to see what RDNA3 brings to see if it's worth paying for a new card vs last-gen used card pricing.