Check whether a crypto offer is actually available in your country

Identify the contracting entity

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Find the legal name in the terms, the service you would receive and the country restrictions. Save those details before relying on a registration logo. A group may use several entities, and the named entity should match the agreement rather than merely share the brand. If the seller cannot identify it clearly, record the answer as unresolved.

Check the official source

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For an EU service, use ESMA and the relevant national regulator to check authorisation and its scope. For another jurisdiction, use that jurisdiction's authority. Do not assume that a foreign registration covers your country or that one authorised activity covers every product. Compare the official contact details with the website and messages you received.

Do not conceal eligibility to get access

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If a promoter tells you to change your location, supply false information or ignore the terms, preserve that instruction and pause. The BitClub record illustrates the evidential importance of such directions in a specific case. A technical ability to reach a website is not permission to use its financial service, and a successful deposit is not a regulatory check.

Ask for a mining-contract reconciliation

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Write down the contract identifier, promised capacity, duration, location if disclosed, electricity and maintenance deductions, payout formula and termination conditions. Compare the same period across the contract, any operator statement and payments already received. Record which evidence comes from the seller and which can be independently checked. Equipment images and referral income belong in separate rows. This worksheet can identify unanswered operational questions; it cannot verify facilities you have not inspected or establish the current criminal status of people in an old case announcement.

EU authorisation check after July 2026

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For a country-availability check, note that the EU-wide MiCA transitional period ended on 1 July 2026. A provider cannot rely on an old transitional registration as if it were continuing MiCA authorisation. Match the entity, activity and country to the official record; a pending application alone does not settle those questions.

Verify a case update by person, count and document

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For BitClub, record the court, case number, defendant, filing date and ECF number before copying a status. ECF 611 dismisses the indictment as to Goettsche; ECF 553 concerns Weeks’s plea-withdrawal motion and ECF 554 addresses reconsideration. Keep a separate column for a sentencing judgment. Mark a hearing date as a schedule, and a missing judgment as not obtained rather than no sentence. Preserve the original link and check date so a changed status can be traced.

Record checked on 25 October 2026

Goettsche’s dismissal with prejudice is verified in the 28 July 2026 order; Weeks’s plea rulings are verified in the February orders. These are individual outcomes, not a closure of every defendant’s case. Later judgments for other defendants were not obtained.