Who is behind Crypto Fineprint

The author

Christian M. writes and maintains every page on this site. Christian runs Crypto Fineprint and checks every card’s fees, cashback rules and availability against the issuer’s own pages, logging each change in the changelog. He is based in Romania, which is why FX fees on non-euro spending get the attention they deserve here.

What is checked, and what isn't

Reviews here are document research: each one is built from the issuer’s fee schedule, help centre, card terms and licence register, and lists the exact pages used. The author personally uses ether.fi Cash and holds no other card on this site. The other cards have not been opened, funded and spent with by the author, and the reviews do not pretend otherwise. Where a card has been used first-hand, the review says so in a section marked Tested by us, with the date and what was tested.

Every card carries its own verified date; the oldest is currently October 7, 2026. Before any change goes live, a build check runs the calculator for every country at three spending levels and fails if a result is missing or not a number.

How the site makes money

The only income is referral links. 9 of the 12 ranked cards have one; Bitpanda Card, Crypto.com Visa and RedotPay do not, and are ranked by the same formula. No issuer pays for placement, and the full list of links is on the methodology page. When a card stops working for its holders, it is delisted with a wind-down guide rather than quietly removed, referral link or not.

Why this site exists

Most crypto card roundups rank cards by the biggest advertised cashback and link to whichever issuer pays the most. The number that matters is what you keep after FX markups, conversion fees, caps, annual fees and token requirements, and that number changes with where you live. Crypto Fineprint ranks cards by that net figure and shows the arithmetic, so a reader in Bucharest and a reader in Amsterdam get different answers from the same data.

Editorial policy

• Sources. Every fee, rate and availability claim is checked against the issuer’s own fee schedule, help centre or legal terms, and each review lists the pages used. Third-party blogs and press releases are not treated as sources.
• Independence. Referral links are labelled wherever they appear and are disclosed on the methodology page. They never influence scores, rankings or calculator results, which use one formula for every card.
• Freshness. Each card carries the date its numbers were last verified. The full list is re-checked at least monthly, and every material change is logged with its date in the changelog.
• Corrections. Found something out of date? Email hello@cryptofineprint.com. Confirmed errors are fixed quickly and logged.
• Not advice. Nothing here is financial or tax advice. Crypto assets are volatile, cashback paid in tokens can lose value, and rules differ by country.

How the site is built

The site is a set of static pages generated from one data file, with no trackers or cookies beyond cookieless page-view counting. The calculator runs the same code in your browser that pre-renders the country rankings, so what you see is what a search engine sees.

Contact: hello@cryptofineprint.com · Christian M. on X.