Editorial Standards
What we publish, what we refuse to publish, and what we will never claim. These are commitments, not aspirations.
1. Adverse findings rest on an official act
We report that a company or platform has been the subject of an official act — an indictment, an enforcement action, a court filing, a sanctions listing, an on-chain blacklisting, or a regulator’s published warning. We do not publish user reports, forum posts, review-site ratings or press allegations as findings of our own. Where those exist, they belong to whoever made them.
2. We report, we attribute, we link
Every item names its source, carries its date, and links to the original so you can read it yourself. We do not rewrite a source’s allegation into an assertion of ours, and that includes headlines. If a regulator says a firm is unauthorised, what we are telling you is that the regulator said it.
3. We do not name private individuals
Companies and platforms are named because official acts name them. Private individuals are not, even where a filing does. The public interest in this site is served by naming the operation, not the person.
4. Right of reply before publication
Before we publish anything adverse about a named company, we offer them the opportunity to respond, and we publish the response alongside. If they decline or do not answer, we say so rather than implying agreement.
5. Corrections are public and dated
When we get something wrong we correct it on the corrections log, stating what it said before, what it says now, and why it changed. We do not quietly edit a page and leave no trace.
6. We will never tell you a platform is safe
You will not find the words safe, verified, trusted or approvedattached to any company on this site, and you will never see a green tick. We are not able to know that. A platform with nothing on the record today may be running a fraud today. Anyone who offers you a positive verdict on a cryptocurrency platform is selling you something — frequently the fraud itself.
7. Absence of a record is not a clean record
If we hold nothing about a company, that means no official act we monitor has named it. It does not mean the company is legitimate. Most frauds are unrecorded until after they have taken the money.
8. We take no money from anyone we write about
The site is free. It carries no cryptocurrency advertising, no affiliate links and no exchange sponsorship, and it will not in future. We do not accept payment for inclusion, for exclusion, or for placement.
9. We cannot recover your money and we will never offer to
No one on this site will contact you offering to trace or recover funds for a fee. If someone does so claiming to be us, they are not. Fraud operations routinely impersonate real firms, complete with correct logos and lookalike domains, and recovery fraud is the second wave that targets people who have already lost money.
10. Failures are shown, not hidden
When a source stops responding or goes quiet, we say so on the front page rather than quietly publishing less. A site that silently carries ten of fourteen sources while looking complete is lying by omission.
Edited by Raymond Clynick. If you believe something here is wrong, write to us and we will check it — see About for how to reach us.