Kaeda🔍 Search 560 cases — "data $1M", "solo founder", "community"…
← All cases

CoinTracking

The IRS made every crypto trade taxable - he already owned the plumbing
👤 Dario Kachel (Munich IT manager. Couldn't track crypto gains across exchanges, so he shipped the first crypto portfolio tool solo in 2013.)🌐 site

A Munich IT pro shipped the first crypto portfolio tool in 2013; a 2014 IRS rule turned it into mandatory tax software.

Will it work? · our read
Forced demand. A law made every crypto trade taxable, and Kachel already owned the plumbing. But the same enforcement lets exchanges auto-report basis - the aggregator's edge can erode.
01How the money moves
Trader disposes crypto across many exchanges & wallets - each a taxable event
CoinTracking auto-imports 400+ sources, computes cost basis in local tax rules
User pays $49-169/yr for the compliant tax report (Form 8949, HMRC, and more)
02The numbers
2.2M+Statedactive users
the sentence on the page& Support get help from our team Pricing EN DE ES FR PT IT PL
2.2M+
users
25K
corporate clients
400+
exchange/wallet imports
Scale is first-party (cointracking.info); dollar revenue is undisclosed. cointracking.info
Revenue undisclosed (private GmbH); third-party estimate about $2M+/yr.
🔒
You have the verdict. Members get the work behind it.
  • The CENTS scorecard — where it's strong, where it's soft
  • The founder's key move, and the counter-move
  • How it could die — the evidence, and how sure we are
  • The case against our own call
  • A 🚀 launchpad prompt — the case, as a plan for your business
We rate our own confidence — and argue against ourselves. Nobody else in this category does.
Sources always public on all 560 cases · cancel anytime · 14-day refund
See a full teardown, free → ImportYeti
SourcesSources last checked 25 August 2026
Revenue is NOT first-party disclosed. CoinTracking GmbH is a private German company; statutory financials are paywalled (NorthData). The "about $2M+/yr" figure is a weak third-party aggregator estimate (Owler/Prospeo) and is likely understated given 2.2M+ users and 25K corporate clients paying $49-169/yr - true revenue is undisclosed, so tagged Estimate, not independently confirmed. First-party/official: founding story, current pricing, user/integration/country counts, ISO 27001 (cointracking.info), and the 2014 IRS ruling (IRS.gov). The "own the plumbing" framing and the erosion thesis are our read, not founder statements ([infer]). Accointing's 2024 shutdown is documented (Cointelegraph). Funding: Kachel built it solo and grew from paying customers; one aggregator hints at a redacted round, so I say "effectively bootstrapped", not "never raised". Rival prices are approximate, not freshly verified. We never score you.