How this site makes money

Required by advertising rules in most countries, and worth reading anyway — knowing how a site is paid tells you which parts to read sceptically.

The short version

buypith earns from promotional links to Binance that carry our referral code, BN0112. If you open a Binance account using that code — pasted in yourself from the home page, or through the one link on our account guide — Binance may pay us a share of the trading fees you generate afterwards.

You are not charged for that. Binance's commission to us is a share of the trading fees you would have paid at its published rates anyway; it is taken out of Binance's side of that fee, not added to your bill.

This page used to go further and say the code also cuts your own fees “by up to 20%”. We have withdrawn that claim. Binance's own introduction to its referral programme (checked October 2026) describes the commission it pays the person doing the referring, tiered by how much trading that person's invitees generate and reviewed quarterly; for the person signing up it sets out no standing discount on their own fee rate, only a conditional rebate voucher. Passing part of a commission back to the person who signs up is a setting inside the programme, and the rate is Binance's to change or end. So we are not going to put a number on what the code saves you. If there is a discount, Binance's sign-up screen will state it at the moment you register — read that screen, not us. The logged version of this correction is on the corrections page.

Said plainly

Using our code does not make your trades more expensive. Whether it makes them any cheaper is up to Binance and visible only on its own sign-up screen — we are not promising it. What is certain is that we have a financial reason to want you to open an account, which is the part to keep in mind while reading anything here.

Exactly where the earning links are

Three places, one link each. Opening your first exchange account carries one, placed at the step where you would actually be creating the account. What a referral code actually does carries one, at the end of the page that works out how little a fee discount is worth at beginner volumes even when one applies. And the home page carries one, next to the code itself.

That is the whole commercial footprint:

The home page shows the code as text you can copy, plus one marked link to Binance's sign-up page.
The other seventeen guides, all five tools, and every page in this footer carry no referral link.
There is no sticky bar, no pop-up, no “sign up now” block repeated across pages, and no button anywhere styled to look like an exchange's own.
Where a guide links to Binance's fee schedule, help centre, or terms — the reference pages, not the sign-up flow — those links carry no referral code and earn us nothing. They are citations.

Every link that can earn us money is tagged in the page source as a paid link, in the way search engines expect, and opens in a new tab so this guide stays where you left it. Beside each one there is a plain-language note saying what it is. Search engines read the tag; you read the note.

What the money does not buy

Coverage. Nobody pays us to be written about, ranked, or recommended. Binance has no involvement in what appears here, sees nothing before publication, and has no relationship with us beyond the standard referral programme anyone can join.
Silence. Costs, limits, wait times, and failure modes are described as we find them. Where a route is expensive, the guide says so — the credit-card guide spends most of its length explaining why it is usually the worst way to buy.
Softer risk language. The guide about what beginners get wrong exists precisely because a site earning from sign-ups needs one.

If you would rather we earned nothing

Then do not use the code. Go to Binance directly, leave the referral field empty, and use this site purely as a reference. Nothing here is gated, and no guide changes depending on whether you use the code. Visit statistics come from Google Analytics alone, as described on the privacy page. You would be giving up whatever fee discount the code carries at the time, if any, and we would earn nothing from your account — both of which are entirely your call.

Other commercial arrangements

None. No display advertising, no sponsored posts, no paid links, no newsletter sponsorships, no affiliate relationships with any other exchange, wallet, hardware maker, or service. If that ever changes, it gets written on this page before it appears anywhere else on the site.

Risk, and where you live

A referral link does not change the risk of what is on the other side of it. Crypto prices move sharply in both directions, and you can lose part or all of the money you put in; nothing on this site is financial, tax, or legal advice. Rules also differ from place to place: whether you can open an account, which payment methods and products you are offered, and how gains are taxed all depend on the country you live in, and Binance may not serve your country at all. Check what applies where you live before you fund an account, and only put in money you could afford to lose.

Independence note: buypith is not operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Binance. Referral programme participants are not employees, agents, or representatives of the exchange, and cannot act on your account.