My current conclusion is: don’t wait until the end of the year to go back and audit everything. Just jot down your records as you go in day-to-day life—otherwise you’ll really lose your mind… I’m the kind of person who has been burned before.

The reason isn’t complicated: moving funds back and forth on-chain, depositing and withdrawing from exchanges, and then running into airdrop season plus various task platforms that clamp down on bots/anti-sybil measures and use a points system, making it feel exactly like clocking in at work. The more addresses you have, the messier it gets. My low-effort method is to write down a note on the day of any big move (deposits/withdrawals, switching chains, claiming airdrops, collecting rewards): the time, the wallet/platform, what I did, and I drop in a screenshot/link of the tx hash—then I add a quick remark like “this is a cost,” “this is income,” or “this is a transfer.” Since it’s infrequent, taking two minutes to update it right after I wake up is better than staring at a bunch of hashes at the end of the year. That’s it—don’t force yourself to become an accountant.