Last night, I was reviewing my trading records and my eyes went wide. I realized that over the past year, I’ve been recording trades more frequently than writing a diary... Honestly, if I don’t leave evidence in advance, I could really drive myself crazy by the end of the year.

I currently have a few simple methods: for every deposit, withdrawal, chain swap, or transfer to a cold wallet—things that "don’t look like trades but might raise tax questions"—I immediately take a screenshot and export a transaction history (one from the exchange/wallet each), naming the file with the date and what I did; additionally, every weekend I export my transaction records as a CSV to the cloud drive, and jot down a couple of sentences like “Why I jumped in that day,” or I won’t be able to explain myself clearly later.

Recently, with cross-chain bridge hacks and oracle errors causing crazy market swings... it’s even more important now to keep records of the “on-chain state at the time” and “waiting for confirmation” status. Not to argue, but so that if I get questioned later, I can honestly say: “I was waiting for confirmation, not just disappearing out of nowhere.” Anyway, I’d rather go through a bit more trouble—at least then I can relax and go for a walk at the end of the year.