Every year around the end of the year, I get “transaction records” torture again. To put it plainly, it’s not that taxes are that hard—it’s that you simply can’t remember which chain, which wallet, or which CEX the funds came in from and went through. Now my approach is pretty old-school: every time I make a large transfer, do a cross-chain move, or handle deposits and withdrawals, I immediately throw the tx hash, screenshots, and notes (what they were for) into a table, and then quickly export the exchange statement to cloud storage, creating folders month by month. Don’t wait until it’s time to file your taxes to fill in the gaps… that really drives me crazy.

Recently, the L2 “back-and-forth” has been happening every day—people are comparing TPS, fees, and subsidies. It looks pretty lively, but for someone like me who hates hassle, it actually just serves as a reminder: the more chains there are, the more fragmented the transaction flows become, and the reconciliation at the end is the most painful. Oh well—let’s leave it at that for now. Don’t blame the tax office later; blame yourself for not keeping a trail.