Editorial Policy

Scope

Bitcoin Plaster covers Bitcoin and the full progression of becoming a long-term holder, the Bitcoin Holder Standard: money literacy first, then the Bitcoin thesis, then holder psychology, then the standard of behavior, and finally self-custody.

In practice that means what money is and why fiat loses value, inflation and purchasing power, gold and the end of the gold standard, what Bitcoin is and why fixed supply matters, volatility and market cycles, the discipline that separates a holder from a speculator, and the operational reality of self-custody, hardware wallets, recovery, backup, tax records, and inheritance.

It does not cover altcoins, trading signals, price commentary, NFTs, DeFi, yield products, memecoins, or general crypto news. That exclusion is an editorial control, not a marketing line. The lane is narrow on Bitcoin and on the holder, and deep on everything inside it. Staying narrow is what keeps the claims checkable and the product pages maintainable, and it is the difference between a general crypto outlet and a trust asset a reader can rely on.

Who the work is for

Bitcoin Plaster is written for anyone on the path to becoming a long-term Bitcoin holder, from someone who senses their savings losing value but has never been taught why, to a holder organizing self-custody and inheritance. The temperament is constant: someone willing to slow down and understand, skeptical of slogans, and aware that money and custody mistakes can be permanent.

The questions get sharper along the way: why does fiat lose value, what makes Bitcoin different, how do I think about entering without hype, what changes when Bitcoin leaves an exchange, and how do I hold it without an irreversible mistake. The policy below exists to answer questions like these clearly, not to impress anyone with complexity.

Author accountability

Bitcoin Plaster is operated by three consistent pseudonymous editorial identities: Frederick Staunch, the founder, Editor-in-Chief, and Technical Editor; Angela Blake, the Finance & Product Review Editor; and Meryl Staunch, the Family Preparedness & Reader Experience Editor. Pseudonymity is a personal-security measure for people working on Bitcoin ownership, finance, family preparedness, and self-custody. It does not dilute responsibility for the work.

Page-level authorship identifies the editor responsible for the article's analysis, structure, conclusions, reader guidance, and published text. Separate contributor credits identify physical testing, technical review, financial review, product setup, or photography performed by someone else, and each credited contributor is responsible only for that stated contribution. Frederick maintains final publication standards as Editor-in-Chief, while each named author remains accountable for the work published under that byline. Meryl's inheritance-readiness coverage is practical education for family preparation, not jurisdiction-specific legal or estate-planning advice.

The site does not use a rotating cast of anonymous writers, disposable author identities, or generated faces presented as real photographs. Read the Editorial Team page for all three author profiles and responsibility boundaries.

No signals, no timing, no advice

This standard matters most in the money and holder-psychology coverage, where a careless phrase can read as a trade instruction. Bitcoin Plaster does not give buy or sell signals, price targets, or timing calls, and it never tells a reader that the chart is low or that now is the moment to enter.

What the site does instead is teach the thinking: how cycles and volatility work, why entering on hype tends to wreck people, and how to weigh risk and a personal time horizon. The acceptable form is to explain that a reader should not enter from hype and should understand the consequences of entering during euphoria. The unacceptable form is any phrasing that functions as a recommendation to buy, sell, or time the market.

Nothing on the site is individualized financial, tax, investment, legal, estate-planning, custody, or security advice, and the reader always makes the decision. Family-recovery and inheritance-readiness pages explain practical preparation only; readers should obtain qualified jurisdiction-specific advice where legal or estate-planning decisions are involved.

Experience standard

Bitcoin Plaster does not use invented stories, fake testing, fake screenshots, fake photos, fake measurements, or AI-generated proof. When a page says a named author or credited contributor used, set up, tested, photographed, compared, or measured something directly, that attribution must be true. When a point rests on documentation, specifications, or comparison reasoning instead, the page says so.

The rule is plain: first-hand experience is labeled as first-hand, source-based analysis is labeled as source-based, product claims are tied to evidence, and uncertainty is never dressed up as confidence. When the choice is between leaving a detail out and inventing the detail that would make a page sound stronger, the detail stays out.

Product evaluation standard

Product coverage, which sits at the self-custody layer, is recommendation-sensitive: a careless hardware-wallet or backup-tool call can change how a reader stores real Bitcoin, which holds these pages to a higher bar than ordinary educational content.

A product evaluation is expected to say who the product is for, who should skip it, what it solves, what it does not solve, the tradeoff that matters most, what setup and recovery actually feel like, how it fits a Bitcoin-only holder, and whether the conclusion would still stand without an affiliate commission.

Partner availability is not evidence of merit. A product is not better because an affiliate program exists, and it is not irrelevant because one does not. The editorial question, whether the page is useful, accurate, and defensible for the reader's situation, is settled before monetization is considered at all. A product's weaknesses are not softened or removed to protect a commission, and the site does not publish fabricated, incentivized, or selectively edited reviews.

Source and verification standard

Bitcoin Plaster works from primary sources where they exist: manufacturer documentation, official support and firmware notes, protocol references, monetary history, and public policies. Not every sentence carries a citation, but a consequential claim is written so the reader can see where it comes from and why it matters. The site treats three kinds of claims differently.

Factual claims

Statements about how something works, what a product supports, what a policy says, or what a term means. These have to be supportable from a reliable source, direct use, or settled understanding.

Interpretation

Where the site explains why a distinction matters. This is presented as reasoning, not fact. A page can say what a tradeoff or a monetary pattern means without pretending that judgment carries the same weight as a specification or a settled figure.

Recommendation-sensitive judgment

Anything that could move a reader toward a product, tool, or custody action. This carries the highest bar, because the reader may act on it, and it never sounds more certain than the evidence allows.

AI-assisted production

Bitcoin Plaster is AI-assisted, not AI-authored in the careless sense. AI helps with structure, drafting, editing, summaries, and consistency. It does not decide what is true, what gets recommended, what experience exists, or what evidence supports a claim.

In practice that means AI-generated claims are reviewed before they are published, product details are checked rather than trusted because they read fluently, and first-hand experience is never invented to fill a gap. Responsibility stays attached to the named page author, while Frederick Staunch maintains final publication standards as Editor-in-Chief. AI may help express judgment; it may not create fake testing, fake proof, fake photos, fake authorship, or confidence that the evidence does not support.

Corrections

If a reader believes a page contains an error, an unclear statement, a missing qualifier, an outdated claim, or a misleading product detail, the Contact & Corrections page is the route. A useful report points to the page, names the statement in question, says what looks wrong or incomplete and why it matters, and includes any source worth considering.

None of that is a barrier, though: a short plain note about a real problem is worth more than a polished report that never gets sent. Reports are reviewed on their merits, and a valid one may lead the site to revise, clarify, annotate, or remove the claim. Not every message receives an individual reply, but correction reports are part of the site's accountability surface.

Read the Contact & Corrections page.

Updates and maintenance

Self-custody and product content does not stay correct on its own, because firmware, product lines, app flows, prices, affiliate programs, and security assumptions all move. A page may be reviewed or updated when a credible correction comes in, when a product or policy changes materially, when a hardware-wallet flow changes, when a recommendation-sensitive claim goes stale, when a clearer explanation would lower reader risk, or when routine review shows the page no longer meets the current standard.

There is no blanket refresh schedule. Review effort concentrates where the consequence to the reader is highest.

Monetization and affiliate links

Bitcoin Plaster is a business, and some pages carry affiliate links, mostly the hardware wallets and backup tools at the self-custody layer. A purchase made through one may earn the site a commission at no extra cost to the reader. The order of operations is fixed and does not bend for a commission:

1. Editorial reasoning first.
2. Product fit second.
3. Disclosure always.
4. Monetization only where it is earned.

A page that follows that order reads like a careful evaluation that happens to include a monetized route when the fit is real, not a sales page wearing an education costume. The full commercial terms, including how and where affiliate links are disclosed, are set out in the Affiliate Disclosure.

Read the full Affiliate Disclosure.

What Bitcoin Plaster does not do

Nothing on Bitcoin Plaster is a personal recommendation to buy, sell, or hold Bitcoin. Frederick Staunch, Angela Blake, and Meryl Staunch do not take custody of anyone's coins, manage funds, inspect seed phrases, or give individualized financial, tax, legal, estate-planning, investment, custody, or security advice. The site teaches, evaluates tools, explains tradeoffs, and discloses its commercial relationships. Beyond that, the holdings and the responsibility for them stay with the reader, which is the entire premise of self-custody rather than a disclaimer bolted onto the end of it.

Editorial standards in practice

In practice, Bitcoin Plaster aims to publish work that is Bitcoin-only, useful before it is clever, specific enough to help a real reader, clear enough to act on, careful where the stakes are high, honest about uncertainty, direct about tradeoffs, and unwilling to hide weak evidence behind strong language. It does not run on hype, panic, fake urgency, fake scarcity, fabricated experience, financial signals, or commission-first phrasing.

Self-custody and money writing both need restraint, but restraint that never reaches a conclusion is just avoidance. A page can be honest about uncertainty and still tell the reader what the tradeoff means. That is the line between information and judgment, and it is the line the rest of this policy is built to protect.