Lately, I’ve been a bit shaken awake by the question “What records are needed for year-end tax reporting.” To be honest, trading a lot isn’t scary; what’s scary is that at the time, I was trying to save effort and left no trace, and now I can only stare at a bunch of transfer hashes. Now I’ve gotten used to exporting exchange transaction records once a week, using one address per on-chain account, and conveniently adding notes like “deposit/asset swap/cross-chain,” otherwise the same cross-chain transactions really feel like a maze.

Recently, Layer 2 is again comparing TPS, fees, and subsidies. I watch the excitement but worry more that if I cross-chain too many times, my records will shatter into pieces. Anyway, I’d rather make fewer moves, and just upload screenshots, CSVs, and txids to an encrypted drive, organized into folders by month. Asset life is important, but so is keeping my mind alive.