Reconciling after a quiet year of cold storage
Long gaps create soft errors: forgotten change, renamed notebooks, and confidence that outruns the pages.
A quiet year feels safe. Coins did not move; therefore the ledger must still be true. That assumption fails in small ways: a notebook moved flats, a label bled in humidity, a partner added a receive you never copied to the master pages.
Reconciliation sessions are built for this moment. You bring the ledger. Under your control, you compare visible UTXOs to the written lines. Matches get a dated stamp. Gaps become a discrepancy list — not a silent rewrite. Sometimes the list is empty and you leave lighter. Sometimes it points to a full audit.
Either outcome is useful. The expensive path is waiting until a spend is urgent and the pages disagree. If your last written update is older than twelve months, treat a short Yeouido appointment as maintenance, not drama.