About this site
A short, unflattering description of what buypith is, so you can decide how much weight to give anything on it.
buypith walks through one thing: buying crypto for the first time. Not trading it, not picking winners, not predicting anything. The path from “I think I want to try this” to “there is a small amount of bitcoin in an account I control” has about seven steps in it, and every one of them has a screen that assumes you already know something you do not.
That gap is the whole reason this site exists. Exchange help pages are written by people who use exchanges daily. Most beginner guides are written to rank, get you to a sign-up button, and end. What is missing is the boring middle: this field wants that, that fee comes out here, this wait is normal and that one is not.
The byline is a pen name
Articles here are signed Nell Harrow. That is a pen name, not a person you can look up, and we would rather say so on the About page than let you find out later. There is no CFA behind it, no decade at a trading desk, no verified track record — and if this site claimed any of those, you would have no way to check, which is exactly why sites claim them.
What is behind it: people who have gone through exchange sign-up and verification flows enough times to know where they break, who read the fee schedules properly, and who write down what the screens actually say instead of what the marketing page says they say.
Treat this site the way you would treat a well-organised forum thread by someone who has done the thing a few times — useful for “what happens next and what does this field want”, worthless as a basis for deciding how much money to risk. For anything with your money or your taxes on the line, the exchange's own pages and a professional who knows your country beat anything written here.
What we will not write about
- Price. No targets, no “why now is the moment”, no cycle predictions. There is one guide called is it too late to buy bitcoin? and its entire job is to hand the question back to you with better tools rather than answer it.
- Which coin. Guides here use bitcoin as the example because it is what most first buyers search for, not as a recommendation.
- Yield, leverage, and anything paying a fixed percentage. Out of scope on purpose. Beginners get hurt fastest in products that sound like a savings account.
- Ways around identity checks. People ask. The answer in do I need ID to buy crypto? is not the one those searches are hoping for.
How the site is paid for
A referral code, disclosed on every page that carries a link and explained in full on how we make money. Short version: if you open a Binance account through our code, Binance shares part of the trading fees you generate. Using the code does not add anything to your costs — it takes a slice off the fee you would pay anyway.
The obvious risk of that arrangement is that we start writing whatever makes people sign up fastest. The written defence against it is our editorial policy, and the practical defence is that a sign-up link appears in exactly three places on this site, each one marked and explained.
Corrections and contact
Anything wrong on this site gets fixed and logged on the corrections page, including the small embarrassing ones. If you find an error, a broken step, or a screen that no longer matches the description, tell us — a reader who has just hit the problem describes it better than we can guess it.