About
About this site
One site with one job: take somebody who has never touched crypto and get them to the point where they have actually bought some. This page explains how we write, what we leave out, and how we are paid.
What this site does#
BuyLedge (buyledge.com) does exactly one thing: it explains buying bitcoin for the first time, start to finish, in enough detail that you can follow along and actually finish.
There is no shortage of content about “how to buy bitcoin”. What is missing is usually this:
- No skipped steps. Most guides quietly assume you already have an account, already passed identity verification, already know how to get money in. Those are exactly the places beginners get stuck.
- Saying plainly which routes do not work. Whether you can fund an account depends on where you live and which bank you use. Describing every method as “available” is not honest.
- Security in the right place. We cover two-factor authentication and anti-phishing codes before the payment step, because an account with no money in it is the cheapest possible time to get security wrong.
Who it is for#
It is written for someone who has already decided to try, but has no idea where to start.
Our default assumption is that you have one phone and no computer, you have never bought any crypto asset, words like “verification”, “KYC” and “order type” make you tense, and you may well believe you have to buy a whole bitcoin. (You do not — see the three concepts.) Every page is written on that assumption.
The original and most complete version of this site is in Simplified Chinese, with sixteen articles and five interactive tools. If you read Chinese, start there — it goes considerably deeper than the English pages do today.
The English edition is being built out page by page. What is published here is complete and current; it is simply narrower for now.
Editorial policy#
| What we do | Why |
|---|---|
| Date every screenshot | Exchanges redesign their interfaces most quarters and change fees regularly. Every screenshot on this site is labelled with when it was taken, and we say explicitly: trust what is on your screen over what is on ours |
| Give orders of magnitude, not quotes | Rates, limits and prices all move. We tell you roughly what to expect so you can judge whether what you are seeing is reasonable, rather than pretending to quote today’s number |
| Explain the cause before the fix | Knowing why something happens survives an interface redesign. Memorising which button to press does not |
| Say when we are not sure | Local regulation and internal bank policy are not something we can verify one by one. Where that is the case we mark it as a general pattern and tell you to confirm locally |
| Date every page | You are entitled to know how old the thing you are reading is |
What we never do#
We do not predict prices. This site will not tell you whether bitcoin is going up or down, and will never say “now is a good time”. Nobody knows, including the people who write these pages.
We do not give investment advice. Everything here is about how to operate, never about whether you should buy or how much.
We do not act on your behalf. We will not register for you, verify for you, buy for you or hold funds. Nobody from this site will ever ask you for a password, a verification code, a seed phrase or a photo of your ID.
We run no groups, no signals, no “mentors”. There is no community, no support staff and no agent. Anyone messaging you privately claiming to work for BuyLedge is an impostor.
We do not teach you to get around local rules. If a route is closed where you live, we say it is closed rather than offering you a workaround.
Where the money comes from#
This site carries no advertising, has no paid membership and sells nothing. It is funded one way: a referral commission from a cryptocurrency exchange.
If you open an account through the single registration link on our account-opening guide, the exchange shares a portion of the trading fees you later pay with this site. It does not increase your costs — the commission comes out of the exchange’s side, not yours.
We think you should be able to check that this has not bent the writing. So: this site openly states which payment methods it does not recommend, tells you when a fee is high, and tells you when a route in your country simply does not work. Full detail is on the revenue disclosure page.
Found a mistake?#
Interfaces change, fees change, and rules change country by country. If something here no longer matches what you see, we would rather hear about it.
Email [email protected] with the page and what you saw instead. Please do not send screenshots containing your account details, balances or identity documents — a description is enough.
Last updated: 25 August 2026. This page describes how the site is run and is reviewed whenever that changes.