The weather today is oppressively stuffy, and I got stuck in traffic so bad that my coffee even cooled down... Suddenly I thought about how tax season at the end of the year is even more stressful: the more transactions there are, the more my brain gets clogged, worse than the traffic.

My current simple method is: every time I swap coins / cross-chain / enter or exit DeFi, I conveniently export the transaction records from the exchange into a spreadsheet, and for on-chain transactions, I fix the addresses and save a copy each month as a CSV + screenshot (don’t laugh, screenshots can really save your life). Then I add a note to each transfer: this is a deposit, this is a withdrawal, this is a coin swap, this is an airdrop claim... otherwise, after half a year, you won’t even recognize your own transactions.

Recently, the group has been circulating rumors about stablecoin regulation, reserve audits, and “de-pegging,” which, frankly, the more frightening they are, the easier it is to get shaky hands and make mistakes. Put emotions aside for now, and keep good records: the more anxious you are, the more you need clear data. Anyway, I don’t want to be staring at a bunch of hashes in December.