How we work

The standards this desk holds itself to, and the things it does not do.

What we aim for

• Sources you can check. Stories link the material they draw on, and primary sources such as regulators, exchange and protocol notices and company filings carry more weight here than commentary about them.
• A second look before publication. Stories are checked against the sources they cite, by a pass separate from the one that assembled them. Work that does not hold up is held back or dropped rather than smoothed over.
• Labels on unsettled news. Where something is reported rather than confirmed, we try to say so plainly and name who reported it.
• One event, one story. The same news carried by many outlets is treated as one story, so a loud story does not look like ten of them.
• Human oversight. A human editor-in-chief oversees the desk, can hold or remove anything, and owns the opinion and analysis published here.

What a finished story looks like

Here is the format, using an illustrative example (not a real story):

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What we do not do

• We do not tell you to buy or sell anything.
• We do not run paid coverage as news.
• We do not put an opinion in a voice that did not hold it.
• We do not attach a commercial link to coverage of a failure or a loss. How this site earns money is set out on how we make money.

When we get something wrong we aim to fix it and say so on the story itself. Our sourcing and corrections policy is on standards and corrections.

Not financial advice. GoCheckMyCrypto reports events and explains what they may mean. It never tells you to buy or sell anything. Do your own research.