Editorial policy

What gets published

Every guide starts from a question a first-time buyer actually asks — the awkward literal ones, mostly: do I have to buy a whole one, what did that fee just take, why does it keep rejecting my photo. If a topic cannot be written without predicting a price or recommending an asset, it does not get written.

Pages are built around what the reader will see on screen and what it will cost them. Where we do not know something, the page says so instead of filling the gap with confident phrasing.

How numbers are handled

• Protocol-level facts — a bitcoin block arriving roughly every ten minutes, a fixed 21 million supply cap — are stated directly. They do not change on a company's whim.
• Platform figures — fees, limits, wait times, supported methods — are given as ranges, with the month we checked, and a pointer to the exchange's own page as the authority. Exact figures on a page like this decay into misinformation.
• Invented specifics are banned. No made-up user counts, no fake case studies, no “tested at 14:23 on Tuesday” timestamps, no screenshots of balances that do not exist. If a claim implies evidence we cannot show you, it does not run.
• Fresh checks beat memory. Anything time-sensitive gets looked at again before it is written down, and the checking month goes in the text so you can judge how stale it is.

Where AI tools sit

Worth stating plainly, since every site now has an answer to this and most of them are vague.

We use language models the way most writers now use a spell-checker and a research assistant: tidying drafts, checking whether an explanation reads clearly to someone who does not already know the answer, catching inconsistencies between pages. Editorial decisions — what to cover, what a screen actually does, which claims survive — are made by people, and every page is read line by line before it goes up.

What we do not do: publish generated text unread, generate pages in bulk from a keyword list, invent experiences or quotes, or fabricate figures. A guide that has not been walked through against the real interface has no business describing it.

Fact-checking and correction

1. Any figure about a platform is checked against that platform's current published page before it is written down, and the checking month is recorded on the page.
2. Claims about what a screen shows are written from the interface, not from another article about the interface.
3. Reader reports of errors are acted on ahead of new writing. A confirmed error is fixed in place, and the fix is logged on the corrections page with the date and what changed.
4. When a correction changes what a reader would do, the correction says so explicitly rather than quietly editing the sentence.

Standing rules for a referral-funded site

These exist to constrain the obvious conflict described on how we make money:

• No urgency. No countdowns, no “limited time”, no manufactured scarcity, no implication that waiting will cost you.
• No price talk as persuasion. Price appears only as a mechanic to be explained, never as a reason to act now.
• Expensive routes get called expensive even when they are the easiest to complete and therefore the best converting.
• Risk sections do not get softened. The guide on whether it is too late deliberately declines to give the answer that would make us the most money.
• Sign-up links stay countable. One per page, only on the home page and the two pages that are genuinely about opening an account. Never in the navigation, never in a block repeated across guides. If a page exists only to funnel readers toward that link, it does not belong on the site.
• Buttons say where they go. A link to Binance says Binance, never “get started” or “claim your bonus”. No page, badge, or button on this site is designed to be mistaken for an exchange's own.

Sources

Where a guide relies on something checkable — an exchange's fee schedule, a help article, a protocol's documentation, a block explorer — it links there in the sentence that needs it, in plain view, rather than in a bibliography at the bottom that nobody reads. Links to exchange reference pages never carry our referral code.