Recently, I found that the scariest thing at the end of the year isn’t the market—it’s taxes/filing and having to flip through transaction records… I used to be a bit paranoid, always thinking, “If I just look at the on-chain data, that’s enough.” After all, the addresses are right there. But when it’s really time to reconcile, on-chain is on-chain, and exchanges are exchanges—cross-chain bridges, Gas fees, all that messy stuff like “mystery empty deposits” and missing/zeroed-out entries… my brain just knots up.

Now I just pretend I’m pulling my weight: I clock in every week on a fixed schedule. I dump my wallet addresses, exchange transaction logs, and cross-chain/deposit and withdrawal screenshots (including the time and Tx) into the same folder, and I add a quick note like “what this is for.” When the group is also passing around talk about stablecoin regulation, reserve audits, or de-pegging rumors, I still get anxious—but at least there’s a record. If something really goes off the rails, I won’t have to rely on memory afterward… For now, that’s it. Save myself a bit of future panic.