Corrections & updates
We get things wrong sometimes — fees change, exchanges move jurisdictions, incidents happen. When we correct a factual error on a review or comparison, we log it here with a date, rather than quietly editing the page.
Our policy. Substantive factual corrections (fees, regulation, security incidents, availability) are recorded below. Routine freshness updates and typo fixes are not logged. Every review also shows a "Last verified" date so you can see how current the data is.
Spotted an error? Tell us and we'll check it — and if you're right, it goes on this page. See our methodology for how we source and rate.
- 2026-10-13Bitcoin vs gold
Our gold data stopped on 30 September 2025, so 2025 showed +44.6% instead of the full-year +64.4%, and we quoted a five-year Bitcoin growth rate of about +67% a year that was out of date (+24.7% a year over the five full years 2021-2025). We also said Bitcoin was the best-performing major asset in 9 of the past 12 years, which no longer holds after 2025. The article now uses full calendar years from a single public dataset, and today's prices are shown live with their source and time.
- 2026-10-13Staking calculator
We showed Ethereum staking at 3.2% ("3–4%"); Lido's 7-day average stETH rate was 2.24% on 13 October 2026. The ETH rate is now read live from Lido; the other yields are labelled as manual mid-2026 readings.
- 2026-10-13Reviews and rankings
Pages said "verified October 2026" even where fees were last checked in August 2026 (Coinbase, Kraken, the hardware wallets and the gold providers). Each page now shows the real date its data was checked.
- 2026-10-04Binance review
Binance has no MiCA licence: since 1 July 2026 EU residents can no longer sign up, deposit or trade (withdrawals only). We had still listed its old French, Italian and Polish registrations. We also now record that Binance itself, not only its founder, pleaded guilty in the US in 2023, which applies our −3 regulation rule. Its score fell from 8.1 to 7.6 and we removed the outbound link.
- 2026-10-04OKX review
We described OKX's February 2025 US case as a settlement. Its operator, Aux Cayes FinTech, pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money-transmitting business and paid over $504M, so the same −3 rule we apply to KuCoin now applies. We also counted only one tier-1 licence; OKX holds both an EU MiCA licence (Malta) and a Dubai VARA licence. Net effect: OKX's score moved from 8.5 to 8.4.
- 2026-10-04Bybit review
Our availability note was out of date. Bybit EU GmbH has held a MiCA licence from Austria's FMA since May 2025 and serves the EEA through bybit.eu, and Bybit returned to the UK in December 2025 via Archax-approved promotions. We also added its 2022 Ontario Securities Commission settlement. Its score rose from 7.9 to 8.4, level with OKX; the tie is broken by our published rule (higher Security pillar first), which places OKX ahead.
- 2026-10-04KuCoin review
We showed KuCoin with no tier-1 licence. KuCoin EU Exchange GmbH received a MiCA licence from Austria's FMA on 27 November 2025. Its score rose from 6.5 to 7.1; the 2025 US guilty plea still applies.