Every year toward the end of the year, what I fear most isn’t the drawdown—it’s the tax filing and having to flip through transaction records… With a few hundred on-chain swaps plus cross-chain transfers, who’s going to remember what they were doing and why back then? Now I’m just going to be responsible: export a report from the exchange, run an address report from my wallet, drop them into the same folder every month, and make a quick note like “what I did / why I did it.” Otherwise, when the time comes, I’ll only be able to rely on memory to make up stories—until I’m uneasy about it, and then even more so.

Recently, it seems like there’s yet another wave of AI Agents and automated trading going around touting “fully automated lying-back-and-earning,” but I think the thing that should be automated the most is bookkeeping and reconciliation. Don’t automate it to the point where you can’t even clearly tell what you bought… And these bots constantly refresh, retry, and queue up—each extra on-chain interaction means more records, and more hassle. In any case, I’d rather make fewer trades than spend my year-end locked in a spreadsheet.