Recently, I came across a bunch of people complaining that miners/validators rely on MEV to front-run and that the ordering is unfair.

I scoffed while also feeling a bit envious: their income structure is clear and transparent, while I have a bunch of on-chain transactions back and forth, CEX deposits and withdrawals, plus airdrops and fees, and by the end of the year, reporting could really turn someone into poetry…
Or more like doggerel.

I’ve now resigned myself: every time I transfer funds, swap coins, or claim rewards, I just toss the txhash, date, amount, and counterparty address into a spreadsheet, along with screenshots of orders and deposit/withdrawal records.
Honestly, don’t wait until “there’s time to fill in later,” because that’s just setting a trap for my future self.
Anyway, I don’t aim for perfect reconciliation; I just want to be able to explain “where this came from and where it’s going,” so that by the end of the year, I won’t go crazy.