Recently I dug up old wallets and it made me want to cry. The little corners on-chain are pretty romantic, but year-end reconciliation is anything but… I’ve learned my lesson now: every time I change addresses, bridge across chains, or participate in lesser-known pools, I casually write a line in the remarks like “Why did I transfer?” or “Where did it come from?”, and then I drop the transaction hash into a table—otherwise, I won’t even recognize my own transactions a couple of months later.

I used to be stubborn and insist, “I only look at the on-chain,” thinking that emotions and rules are just noisy—turns out you really can’t ignore the tax/filing stuff. When you start panicking, on-chain info can’t save you either.

Recently, the community has been arguing about privacy coins and the compliance boundaries of coin mixing, so I’m not taking sides anymore. In any case, if I can keep everything clearly recorded, I will—so later I don’t have to spend hours explaining like I’m making up a story. That’s it for now: less heroism, more self-protection.