Affiliate Disclosure

Last Updated: August 5, 2026

What An Affiliate Link Is

An affiliate link is a normal link with a tag on the end identifying where the visitor came from. If you click one and buy something, the seller pays us a small percentage of that sale. You pay the same price you would have paid otherwise. The commission comes out of the seller's margin, not your pocket.

Where They Are On This Site

• Book recommendations. The book cards on our Buying Bitcoin page link to Amazon with our affiliate tag attached.
• Hardware and supplies. Some hardware wallet and seed storage links on our Going Deeper page work the same way.
• Services we mention. Where a company runs an affiliate program and we already recommend them, we may use their link. Anything of that kind is labeled where it appears.

Links to wallet software, node projects, and open source tools are plain links. Those projects do not pay anybody, which is part of why we like them.

How We Decide What To Recommend

The order runs one way: we decide something is worth recommending, then we check whether an affiliate program exists. Never the reverse.

Plenty of things on this site earn us nothing at all, and some of them are our top recommendations. Sparrow Wallet, Bitcoin Core, and mempool.space are free and pay us nothing. If a product paid extremely well but we thought it was bad, it would not be here.

What We Will Not Do

• We will not take payment for a favorable review or a recommendation.
• We will not recommend a product we have not looked at seriously.
• We will not bury the disclosure or hide which links are which.
• We will not let a commission decide what gets taught at a meetup.

You Can Skip Them

Nothing obligates you to use our links. Search for the product directly, buy it from the manufacturer, or find it used. We would rather you get the tool than that we get the commission. If it matters to you, buying hardware wallets straight from the manufacturer is generally the safer practice anyway, since it reduces the chance of a tampered device.

Where The Money Goes

Whatever this earns goes toward keeping the site online, printing materials, and covering odds and ends for meetups. Nobody is drawing a salary from it. Realistically it is a small amount of money that offsets a few costs.

Cookies From These Links

Clicking an affiliate link may let that company set a cookie in your browser so they can attribute the sale. That cookie is theirs, governed by their privacy policy. Our privacy policy covers what happens on our end, which is very little.

Required Wording

Not Advice

Recommending a book or a piece of hardware is not financial advice, and nothing on this site should be read as telling you what to do with your money. We are a meetup group, not advisors.