Editorial Guidelines

These are the rules we hold ourselves to. They are published so readers, guest contributors and our own desk can be held to them.

Core principles

1. Reason from evidence. Show the work. Be candid about what the data does not prove. Analysis is not advice.
2. No hype. No price-target clickbait, no “to the moon,” no maximalist tribalism dressed up as analysis.
3. Real bylines. A named, consenting person, or an honest collective desk attribution. No invented personas, no “admin” byline. Guest contributors are labelled and disclosed.
4. Source claims. Cite on-chain data and primary sources. Correct openly.
5. Disclose money. Affiliate relationships are disclosed inline and at our affiliate disclosure page, and never appear on safety content.

The never-list

Bitcoin Logical will never:

• Publish under invented personas or an “admin” byline.
• Present analysis as financial advice or promise a guaranteed price.
• Publish hype, price-target clickbait, or gambling/”free spin casino” content.
• Publish unreviewed machine output, or let a model decide what a piece concludes.
• Take payment for favourable coverage.
• Hide an affiliate relationship.
• Chase altcoin, memecoin or NFT traffic.

Editorial workflow

Every article moves through the same stages: draft, edit, fact-check, ready, published. Nothing publishes without an editor’s sign-off, sources cited, the First-Principles Take structure on analysis, a YMYL note on any price or positioning content, and disclosure of any affiliate link present. Some drafts are AI-assisted. Where they are, the same stages still apply: a person edits the piece, checks every figure against its source, and owns the conclusion. The judgement in a First-Principles Take — what is claimed, what the evidence supports, and what it does not prove — is always human. We say this plainly rather than claim a purity we do not have.

YMYL handling

Bitcoin is high-risk financial content. Every article that touches price, positioning or analysis carries a visible note that it is not financial advice, above the article body, not buried in a footer. Forecasts, where we make them at all, are framed as reasoned scenarios with stated assumptions, never as certainties.

Corrections

We publish a dated, public corrections log. Errors get fixed and logged; we do not quietly edit a claim and pretend it was always right.