I recently started organizing my taxes/declarations, and I realized the hardest part isn’t calculating the money—it’s finding the records. I used to think everything on-chain was public, and that reconciling everything at year-end would be straightforward, but it just falls apart: CEX deposits and withdrawals, a bunch of internal transfers, cross-chain bridges going back and forth—until it ends up looking like I’m laundering myself.

Now I use a simple, stupid method: every time I make a big transfer, I quickly screenshot and save it “as a meme,” and on top of that I log the txhash, the time, and the notes into a table. At least then I know why I did that transaction back then.

Outside, people constantly link ETF capital flows, U.S. stock risk appetite, and crypto prices to one another for interpretation. But honestly, emotions come fast, and so do the movements of funds. If you don’t leave any trace, you’ll really lose your mind.

Anyway, I’ll fix whatever I can first—don’t wait until year-end to “play the diver.”