Just now my phone popped up another red dot. It’s the kind of push notification the exchange sends about “fund inflow/outflow.” I almost accidentally hand-slid into adding to my position… but then I thought: when it comes to year-end tax filing, what I fear most isn’t the ups and downs—it’s “which platform did I make this trade on, exactly?”

I’m pretty old-school now. Every time I change wallets, move across chains, or trade contracts/spot, I just save the CSV exported by the exchange, the on-chain explorer page, and the notes from that time into the same folder, with the filename clearly stating the date + the purpose. In plain terms, keeping records matters more than calculating profit. Otherwise, at the end, I’ll only be able to patch things up from memory—and the more I patch, the more uneasy I feel.

Lately, everyone keeps using ETF fund flows and the risk appetite in the U.S. stock market to explain volatility in crypto. I’ll look at those too, but no matter how loud and exciting these macro stories are, whether you can spell out where each trade’s funds came from when you file taxes is a completely different issue… So I’d rather look at the hot headlines less and keep a couple more screenshots.