Year-end tax reporting, to be honest, isn't about being afraid of paying taxes, but about flipping through transaction records until I want to smash my keyboard. My current habit is very old-fashioned: every time I make a large swap/ cross-chain/ claim an airdrop, I casually save the transaction hash, time, currency, amount, and a screenshot from that moment (don't ask, even the trading pages on CEX get redesigned) into a spreadsheet, then clearly note the corresponding wallet address. Otherwise, by the end of the year, all I’ll have is “Did I transfer this to myself or send it to someone else?” and then start questioning my life.

Social mining, fan coin schemes—“attention is mining”—sound exciting, but from a tax perspective, it’s even more annoying: a bunch of fragmented income entries, unclear sources, and hard-to-determine value. Anyway, I’d rather earn a little less than have to rely on memory to reconcile everything at the end. That’s it for now, so I don’t have to argue with myself at year’s end.