I really slipped up yesterday. I wanted to copy a blockchain interaction address into a spreadsheet, but I ended up copying the previous payment address... Luckily, I have a makeshift method of "taking a screenshot before each transfer + pasting the transaction hash." When I review it later, I immediately notice something's off—just a false alarm. To be honest, at the end of the year, I need to report all those records. It’s not about how many transactions you have; it’s about whether you were lazy to record them at the time. In the end, you can only rely on memory to piece it together.

Now I treat it like raising succulents: water them slowly, don’t be careless. Spend half an hour each week exporting CEX statements, pulling a copy from the blockchain using a browser, and dumping everything into the same sheet—organized by "Time - Platform/Chain - What was done - Amount - Notes." Also, clean up those weird notes from airdrop interactions, or in a few months, you won’t even remember what you were doing back then.

Recently, AI agents and automated trading have been quite popular, but I actually feel more nervous: automation can save effort, but it can also make your records messier... Especially with more authorizations and signatures, security and record-keeping need to be more meticulous. Anyway, I’ll first make sure to keep full records + screenshots/hashes as proof, so I won’t crash at the end of the year.