Lately, I’ve really been overwhelmed by this “tax/filing” thing… The market is like ice cream, when it’s hot, I click a few times quickly to buy, and by the end of the year, when I do the reconciliation, it all melts into a puddle. Now I’m pretty clueless: every time I transfer funds/exchange coins/put something on the chain, I just take a screenshot (exchange transaction, on-chain hash, fees), then toss it into a spreadsheet, with a note saying “why I bought/why I sold,” or I completely forget what I was doing at the time.

My mom asked me a couple of days ago: “Since you’re buying and selling so much, do you need to issue an invoice?” I could only say half a sentence: No more invoices, just keep all the records, or it’ll be even more awkward when it’s time to report.

By the way, recently hardware wallets are out of stock + phishing links are everywhere, I don’t even dare to click on fake “export report” pages… Anyway, I’d rather go through the trouble of carefully checking each character of the address and link, rather than save two minutes and risk a bunch of stress. Let’s leave it at that for now, at least to avoid going crazy at the end of the year.