About Coinage: Sources, Method, and Editorial Standards

What Coinage is

Coinage is an educational reference site. It covers stablecoins, bitcoin, the networks they run on, and the rules that govern them. Each page explains how something works and where every fact came from. The site does not trade, hold, or sell anything. It has no product to push.

The library is organized as six hubs: stablecoins, bitcoin, chains, spending, basics and glossary, and regulation. Each hub opens onto its own topic pages. Each hub also links the other five. A reader can start at a stablecoin, move to the chain it runs on, and end at the rule that governs it. The trail of dated sources never breaks. A reader who only wants one number can still see where that number stood and when.

How every fact is checked

Each claim traces to a document that can be named and read. Reserve figures come from issuer attestations. This site reads them as issuer-commissioned reports, not audits. The firms that sign them follow standards published by the AICPA ^[1]. Statutes are read from the text on congress.gov, not from coverage of the text ^[2]. A claim that cannot be traced is left out or flagged as unresolved. It is never smoothed into confident prose.

Every page carries its source list at the foot of the body. Every volatile figure carries the date it was true. Every page carries a last reviewed date. That date states when a person last checked the page against its sources. Embedded videos carry receipts too. Each one was checked live before it shipped. An embed that cannot prove its liveness fails the build instead of shipping silently.

What the confidence labels mean

Research on this site uses a fixed set of labels. Primary-confirmed means a figure was read from the issuing party’s own document. Secondary-supported means a second source reported it about that party. Database-reported means an aggregator published the figure, one step further from the ground. Unresolved means the sources disagree or fall short. The page says so instead of choosing a convenient answer. Negative-confirmed means the claim was checked and failed the check. The labels exist because sources are not equal. A site that hides this is only guessing with better typography.

What this site does not do

Coinage does not give financial advice. It does not predict prices. It does not rank exchanges, cards, or wallets. It carries no affiliate links. Pages on spending methods describe mechanics, not endorsements. Pages on regulation explain what written rules say, not what any reader should do about them. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold anything.

Corrections

A site that names its sources can be checked. A site that can be checked will sometimes be proven wrong. We treat that as the system working. If you find an error, the contact page explains how to reach us. The press room states the correction policy in full: what gets fixed silently, what gets a dated note, and how fast each tier is handled.