It’s that time of year again for tax season. I open my wallet and find that I still have several chunks of gas fees left just sitting there—it already makes my head spin.

Over the past few days, a certain blockchain has said it’s going to upgrade. A lot of people have been speculating whether projects in the ecosystem might run away. I don’t really care, though—after all, my cross-chain failed records are already highlighted in red in my Excel sheet.

For recording transactions, I’ve tried all kinds of gimmicks, but in the end I found it’s still most reliable to be straightforward: for each transaction, hash, time, and the on-chain receipt, take a screenshot and save it to a local folder. Don’t trust those automatic bookkeeping tools—if one day the server crashes, you’ll be crying too late.

I turned off exchange push notifications and focused on going through my past transfer records one by one, adding notes in Notepad with the chain name and address. It doesn’t need to be perfect—just so that by year-end I won’t have to dig through block explorers one by one, which would be a real disaster.

Anyway, those tiny token types in my wallet that I’ll never be able to withdraw—just treat them as souvenirs for tuition fees.