Funding, stated plainly
Some outbound links on this site are commercial partnerships. If you click one and open an account, we may be paid. That is how the site is funded, and it is the same model most comparison sites use.
The obvious question is whether that shapes what we write. Here is what we do about it, in specific terms you can check rather than reassurances you cannot.
- Licensing is a hard gate, not a scoring factor. We do not list platforms without a verifiable Florida money transmitter licence at any ranking, regardless of what an affiliate programme pays. You can verify every platform we list on NMLS Consumer Access and through the Florida Office of Financial Regulation.
- Every ranked platform gets a "what doesn't work" section. Including our top pick, CEX.IO, whose card fee and limited fiat support we criticise on the same page where we recommend it.
- We publish our criteria in advance. Our rating method sets out what we assess and in what order, so you can apply it yourself and see whether our conclusions follow.
- We disclose on the page, not just here. Ranking pages carry a funding note in the body text, and the footer disclosure appears site-wide.
- We write against our own commercial interest where the facts require it. Large parts of this site exist to tell people not to buy crypto at a kiosk, not to use leverage, not to buy small-capitalisation tokens, and not to trade frequently — none of which generates revenue for anyone.
All external links are nofollow, including non-commercial ones, because we do not want link equity to be a factor in anyone's decision to work with us.
Sourcing standards
Every factual claim on this site falls into one of four categories, and we try to make clear which one you are reading.
| Type | Standard we apply |
|---|---|
| Operator figures | Taken from the operator's own published pages, quoted with the month we checked them. Fee schedules move, so an undated figure is worthless. |
| Legal and regulatory claims | Tied to a statute, a bill record, a regulator's own publication or a court filing. We name the source and link to it. |
| Statistics | Attributed to the body that produced them — FBI IC3, the Florida Attorney General, the Legislature's bill analyses — with the period they cover. |
| Our own modelling | Labelled as modelling every time, with the components shown. Our "all-in" kiosk costs combine a published fee with an observed exchange-rate markup; they are estimates, not published numbers. |
| Opinion | Framed as judgement — "our verdict", "we would", "we rank". You should disagree where you have better information. |
Where a source is a company describing its own product, we say so. Coinme's all-in cash exchange fee of roughly 15% to 18%, for example, is Coinme's own published documentation rather than our estimate — and we attribute it that way because the distinction matters.
What we will not publish
- Price predictions. Nobody can do this. Pages that pretend otherwise exist to monetise hope.
- Unlicensed platforms. Not as recommendations, not as "alternatives", not in a comparison table.
- Leverage or derivatives promotion. High-leverage venues profit from liquidations. We are not going to help.
- Small-capitalisation token promotion. Where we cover a specific small token — MiamiCoin, for instance — it is as a case study in what went wrong.
- Personalised advice. We are not advisers. We explain mechanics and costs; decisions are yours.
- Fabricated authorship. We do not invent named experts, credentials or quotes. Where we express a view it is attributed to the editorial desk, because that is what it is.
Accuracy, updates and corrections
This subject decays quickly. In the space of a few months in 2026, the largest US kiosk operator filed for bankruptcy and took roughly 156 Florida machines offline, Florida signed a new kiosk statute, and the OFR revised its quarterly reporting form. A page written in 2024 and never revisited would be actively misleading today.
Our practice:
- Every page carries a review date. The current full-site review is August 2026.
- Fee figures are re-checked against operator schedules at each review, and dated in the text.
- Legal pages are checked against the primary record — statute text, bill history, regulator publications — not against other websites.
- We correct errors and note material changes rather than quietly editing.
- Where something is uncertain, we say so. The application of the wash-sale rule to digital assets, for example, is a point we flag as unsettled rather than assert.
If you find an error, please tell us: contact@crypto-florida.com. Include the page URL and, where possible, a source. Corrections from people who work in this industry in Florida are the single cheapest quality improvement available to us.
Conflicts and independence
- We hold no equity in any platform we cover.
- We do not accept payment for a specific ranking position, a specific score, or the removal of criticism.
- We do not allow commercial partners to review content before publication.
- We do not publish sponsored articles presented as editorial.
- Where a commercial relationship exists, the page says so.
We are also clear about what we are not: an independent site with an affiliate model has a structural interest in people opening accounts. The honest response is transparency about the method and criticism that is specific enough to be checkable — not a claim of perfect disinterest that no funded publisher can make.
Scope and limits
Crypto Florida covers Florida. We do not cover other states, and where we mention them — in tax comparisons, for instance — it is for contrast rather than guidance.
We are not a bank, broker-dealer, exchange, money transmitter, kiosk operator, investment adviser, law firm or tax firm, and we are not affiliated with the State of Florida or any government agency. Nothing here is financial, investment, legal or tax advice. Cryptocurrency is volatile and you can lose everything you put in.
See also our rating method, terms of use and privacy policy.