Just went through my trade records I saved up this year, and my head started hurting again… To be honest, as a small retail trader, last year I claimed a few airdrops from on-chain DAO proposals I scribbled through, and I also placed a couple of sell orders along the way. But when I reconciled at the end of the year, I found that I’d missed recording two swaps—almost filled transfer fees in as costs. Luckily I found it, otherwise I’d really be crying when it came time to file taxes.

I’ve also “dabbled” in social mining projects—fan tokens, attention-for-points, and the like. In essence, they’re just finding different ways to get you to contribute data and then give you some tokens. On paper, it sounds great; in practice, records fly everywhere. When everything gets settled at year-end, the on-chain activity doesn’t match the Excel—missing just a few “test transfers” in the middle is enough to be a huge headache. Anyway, I feel like these playbooks are ultimately a false proposition. How can attention be quantified that well? In the end, it’s the exchanges and the project teams that make the money, while retail investors are left with a pile of mismatched records and scattered tokens.

That’s it for now. Whenever I switch chains, I just screenshot it right away and add timestamps in the notes, otherwise I’ll go crazy at year-end. Do you have any good ideas?