Reconciling everything at the end of the year really makes you want to die. Honestly, I strongly recommend just jot things down as you go during normal times. The habit I’ve developed: every time I finish an on-chain interaction, I throw the tx hash and the chain name into a Gmail draft, and tag what it was for. Then by year-end I can look back and see—at least I’ll know whether that pile of junk coins was stolen or just moved to a new position.

Just now I glanced at the “large transfers” page on Etherscan—traffic surged. I guess everyone’s scrambling to organize their end-of-year holdings records. Don’t just check whether an address belongs to you; you also need to keep track of the hot and cold coins in your wallet. Otherwise, in the audit report there will be a bunch of chaotic aliases—you’ll just have to laugh it off.

Anyway, I’ve got a few columns in my Excel right now: date, amount, chain (mainnet or L2), and operation type (mining/switching positions/staking). I also accidentally made a notes column to store the contract address, so after re-labeling you don’t end up picking up duplicates of the same thing again. Once you build the habit, you won’t panic.

Of course, if you’re really lazy, you can just use those on-chain bookkeeping automation tools—but I don’t trust the privacy. It’s better to copy it down yourself in a notebook. In the end, it’s always the people who can’t be bothered to do things day-to-day who go crazy at year-end. Yeah, that’s it for now.