Last night I almost deleted the trading app… Just thinking about having to go through a few hundred on-chain records for year-end taxes makes my scalp crawl. I used to pretend to be artsy: screenshots are enough for keepsakes—until it’s actually time to reconcile. Then the screenshots are as “poetic” as a poem, touching to myself, but completely unusable.

Now I’m being straightforward: every time I swap coins, bridge across chains, or claim an airdrop, I jot it down in the spreadsheet as a quick entry—tx hash, time, counterparty, and notes in plain language (for example, “reckless impulsive chase for the highs” or “panicked and ran away first”). Otherwise, by the end of the year, I’d have to rely on memory to retrace everything—which is basically just making it up.

Recently, with that wave of inflation plus studios plus the coin-price spiral in chain games, a lot of people are both rushing in and cursing the project teams, and their transaction records are a total mess. Put simply: keep your books first. At least when things fall apart, you’ll still know exactly how you ended up losing money… For now, that’s it.