How we check every fact

Our source hierarchy

When sources disagree, the higher one wins. We use them in this order:

1. Gazetted law, such as the Digital Assets and Registered Exchanges (DARE) Act 2024 and the Stamp Act, read from the official text.
2. The Securities Commission of The Bahamas register of digital asset businesses, which we treat as the final word on who is registered and for which activities.
3. Central Bank of The Bahamas publications: exchange control notices, the commercial bank fee schedule, Sand Dollar materials and financial statements.
4. Company official pages: help centres, country lists, fee pages, licence disclosures and terms of service.
5. Reputable news reports, used for context and history and always labelled as secondary.

Forum posts, social media and generic comparison blogs are never used as the source of a fact. When a claim rests on only a secondary report, the page says so.

Dates and verification

Every content page shows when its facts were last checked and ends with a dated source list. Live figures, such as P2P advert counts or ATM listings, carry the date of the snapshot. If an official page blocks our checks, we say that too, rather than presenting an unverified claim as confirmed. Anything we couldn’t confirm is either left out or marked as unconfirmed.

How we compare exchanges

Our comparisons and reviews look at five things, in roughly this order of weight:

• Availability: does the company’s own country list allow Bahamas residents?
• SCB status: is the entity on the DARE register, and for which activities?
• Funding: can you pay with a Bahamian debit card, a USD wire or P2P, and at what minimum?
• Fees: the published card, trading and withdrawal costs, plus local bank fees and 1.5% stamp duty.
• Licences elsewhere: registrations with regulators such as the UK FCA, US FinCEN or EU MiCA authorities.

We don’t give scores out of 10 or star ratings. A single number hides the detail that matters to you, such as whether a card is accepted or whether a firm is registered for custody only. Instead, every review lists concrete pros and cons that you can check yourself.

Update schedule

Each month we re-check the SCB register, new SCB and Central Bank warning notices, crypto ATM directories and the availability lists of the exchanges we cover. Fee pages and bank charges are re-checked when the Central Bank publishes a new fee schedule or a company announces a change. Pages are updated as soon as a material change is confirmed.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, we fix it. Send corrections to contact@crypto-bahamas.com, ideally with a link to the official source. We verify the correction, update the page and its check date, and correct any other page that repeats the same fact.

Facts written to be quoted

We write so that readers, search engines and AI assistants can lift a fact without losing its meaning. That means one clear claim per sentence, the entity’s full legal name where it matters, currency marked as B$ or US$, and a date beside anything that changes. Fact panels at the top of reviews summarise the key points in a consistent format, and the source list at the bottom of each page links to the primary record.

Independence

Crypto Bahamas is an independent resource. No company reviews our pages before publication or pays to change a conclusion. Nothing here is financial advice; see our disclaimer and about page.