I'm really afraid of messing up on tax day at the end of the year... Whenever I get caught up in perpetual trading, I keep toggling between positions, and when I want to figure out "Did I actually make money or not," my brain just crashes. Now I've learned to be smarter: every time I deposit/withdraw/transfer chains, I take a screenshot first, and I put the exchange export records and blockchain explorer links in the same folder. Don’t wait until you need them to fill in the gaps—once missed, they can't be recovered.

Last night I almost impulsively uninstalled my frequently used trading app, thinking that if I don’t see it, I won’t be bothered, but I was also worried that reconciling later would be more troublesome. In the end, I just logged out of the account and turned off notifications... Oh well, I’ll hold back a bit.

Recently, I’ve also been feeling quite affected by the NFT royalty flame wars—everyone’s arguing whether creators should get paid or whether the market should be more “liquid,” but when it comes down to myself: I didn’t keep good records, and in the end, the one suffering is a retail investor like me. Light positions don’t necessarily save your ass, but keeping evidence really can.