About Coins-Info

Coins-Info is a small reference site that explains cryptocurrency in plain language. It is written for people meeting Bitcoin for the first time, for readers who keep running into a term they cannot pin down, and for anyone who wants a straight answer on how buying, storing or mining coins actually works.

Crypto explainers have appeared on this domain since 2014, the year of the earliest Bitcoin pages held by the Internet Archive. In October 2026 the whole reference was rewritten from the ground up: older articles that described exchanges, coins and prices from a decade ago were retired, and their topics were folded into a handful of current guides.

What you will find here

• Blocktionary, our A to Z glossary of crypto and blockchain words, from address to zero-knowledge proof.
• What is Bitcoin: how the network reaches agreement, where new coins come from, the halving schedule, wallets and keys.
• Altcoins: what the term means today and what became of the coins this site covered back in 2014, Darkcoin and Namecoin among them.
• What is Litecoin, one of the oldest Bitcoin offshoots still running.
• Cloud mining, with the regulator warnings and court cases a reader should know about before paying for hashpower.
• How and where to buy bitcoin, covering registered platforms, identity checks, fees and moving coins into your own wallet.

Who writes the pages

Every article carries one byline: the Coins-Info Editorial Team. We do not attach invented names, photos or job titles to the work. What matters to a reader is whether a statement can be checked, so we show where it comes from instead.

How we source facts

Protocol facts (block times, supply caps, upgrade dates) are taken from the projects’ own documentation, the original white papers or the public blockchain itself. Legal and consumer-protection points come from regulators and courts: securities commissions, financial-intelligence units, the European Union’s official journal and published judgments. Each guide ends with the list of sources it relies on.

A few principles shape every page:

• No price predictions and no live prices. Quotes go stale within minutes, and a reference page is the wrong place for them.
• No investment advice. We explain how things work and what the risks are; whether to buy anything is your decision.
• Failures are named plainly. When an exchange collapsed or a coin was abandoned, the page says so and gives the date where it can be confirmed.
• Time-sensitive statements carry a date, such as “as of October 2026”.

Funding and independence

We do not accept payment to include, rank or praise any coin, exchange, wallet or mining service. None of the current guides contain sponsored placements. Should a page ever carry a commercial link, it will be labelled as such next to the link.

Corrections

Crypto changes quickly, and mistakes happen. If you spot an error, an outdated figure or a broken source, write to [email protected] with the page address and, ideally, a link to a primary source. Confirmed corrections are made to the page itself. See the contact page for other requests and the privacy policy for how messages and visits are handled.

Start with the Coins-Info home page if you are new to crypto.