Editorial Policy

This page describes how CryptoCluster is written and what we will not do. It exists so the standards are checkable rather than assumed. Where a rule is enforced by code instead of by good intentions, it says so — those are the ones that hold on a bad day.

Who writes this

Everything published here is researched and written in-house. Posts carry a byline that links to a real author page with a biography and verified links, so a name on an article resolves to a person rather than to the site in general.

No AI-generated content

No part of this site is generated by a language model. Not posts, not the explainers, not the glossary, not summaries, not filler between the paragraphs that matter. This covers the Learn library and Bitcoin 101 as much as the analysis — those pages are long, structured and exactly the kind of thing a model is good at producing quickly, which is precisely why the rule has to cover them explicitly rather than by implication.

Nothing on the site is classified or sorted by machine either. A post's category is set by a person in the CMS and capped at three.

What we do not publish

• Other outlets' reporting. We do not copy, excerpt or rewrite it. When we rely on someone else's work we link to them and say what came from where.
• Press releases. Not as posts, not reworded, not “based on”.
• Undisclosed paid placement. See advertising below.
• Jurisdiction-specific tax or financial guidance. A page of this kind was scoped and deliberately dropped. Rules differ by country and change with each budget, and publishing a rate or a threshold that has quietly expired is the one failure here that could cost a reader real money.

This is not financial advice

Everything here is journalism and analysis, written to explain what happened and why it might matter. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and nobody here is a licensed financial adviser. Crypto is volatile and you can lose money.

This is not left to whoever writes the next page. The line is built into the page templates themselves, so a new explainer cannot ship without it, and the answer is hard-coded into the FAQ rather than stored as an editable document — a policy that can be deleted by accident is not a policy.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say that we did. We do not quietly edit a claim out of a published post and leave the page looking as though it always said the new thing.

A post that changes substantively carries a visible updated date. That date is set deliberately, not by the act of saving — fixing a typo does not stamp an article as revised, because a freshness signal that fires on every keystroke tells a reader nothing.

Corrections go to thecrypto.0009@gmail.com. Tell us the page and what is wrong with it.

Evergreen pages carry a review date

The explainers are written to stay true, but a few of the numbers in them expire — the Bitcoin block subsidy above all. Every one of those pages shows when a person last read it, so you can judge how old a point-in-time figure is instead of guessing. An undated explainer that has gone stale is a worse failure than one that admits when it was last checked.

Advertising, and the line around it

CryptoCluster is funded by clearly-labelled advertising. Reading is free, there is no paywall, and there are no accounts.

• No advertiser sees a post before it is published, and none of them get to change one.
• Disclosures appear above the content, never below it and never behind a hover, per the FTC placement rule.
• A sponsored post cannot render without its disclosure. That is a guarantee in code, not a checklist item — the component refuses to draw the post otherwise, whatever the CMS says.
• Crypto and NFT advertising carries the mandatory risk disclaimer in full, and it cannot be skipped.
• Advertising rates appear nowhere on the public site. A test fails the build if they do.

Contact

Corrections, complaints, advertising and everything else: thecrypto.0009@gmail.com. Related reading: About, Terms and Privacy.