Last night, I was flipping through my transaction records and my eyes went wide—only then did I realize the biggest坑 wasn’t Rug, it was my own laziness… To put it plainly, if you don’t leave a trail from the very beginning, filing at the end of the year turns into a big round of self-torture.

My current clumsy workaround: every time I transfer, swap coins, or enter/exit contracts, I just jot down one line—time, chain, wallet, tx hash, counterparty address (especially contracts), and roughly what I did. Then I export the exchange’s deposit/withdrawal and trading records month by month and toss them into cloud storage. Don’t believe “I’ll pull the table later.” By then, you won’t even remember why you sent your coins to some new address in the first place. Also, cross-chain transfers and multiple wallets are the easiest things to miss. Naming addresses is kind of crude, but it can save you—like “Main Wallet - Only Storage” or “Dog Trading - Don’t Touch.”

Recently, everyone’s been talking about rate-cut expectations, the U.S. dollar index, and risk assets going up and down together and losing their minds. I, for one, don’t even want to keep adding bookkeeping while the market is jittery—my mindset just completely falls apart. For now, I’ll do this: be lazy once, and cry at the end of the year.