I have been thinking about this myself today… I hope it’s not but I think it might be. Definitely important to be on-top of this kind of stuff 

 It's not, spending dollars is not a taxable event.  

 Oh USD. I didn’t read that part 🙈 

 If you're paying from your USD balance it would count as a buy and immediate sell for no gain or loss, so no tax. If you use your Bitcoin balance that has gone up in value since you bought it then it might be taxable.  

 It's not even an immediate buy and sell, that's something Strike does on their own and that taxable event is theirs, not the user's.  

 I don't think so. I also don't think there is a taxable event if you swap stable coins to sats to dollars on Strike either, but the laws are designed by nocoiners who don't think about these things.  

 Swaps between sats and dollars would be a taxable event (in the US).