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What this covers
Every important statement carries one of four evidence labels: confirmed, external, assumed or missing. The surrounding block explains why the statement holds and where it stops holding.
What remains true
When a correction is made, the page and its last-updated date change together.
The four evidence classes
A label tells you what supports a statement. It is not a recommendation to believe it.
These pages mix protocol facts, dated measurements and category descriptions that have not been measured here. One label for all three would make them look equally certain when they are not.
What each evidence label means
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| Class | What it covers here | What the label does not promise |
|---|---|---|
| confirmed | A property of the Bitcoin protocol, or a structural consequence of how a custodial service is built. It can be checked without an outside source. | It does not mean the statement flatters any service, and it says nothing about how one named operator behaves. |
| external | The single dated measurement wave used here, with its provider list. | It describes competition inside returned results. It is not search volume, not demand and not popularity. |
| assumed | A description common across the category that was not measured here. | No figure is attached to it, and it is not a description of any specific service. |
| missing | A gap: no evidence is available in either direction. | The topic is left out or named as a gap. It is never filled with a plausible number. |
The claim rule: mechanism and boundary travel together
Every substantive claim carries its reason and its limit.
The mechanism explains why a claim holds. The boundary says where applying it further would be wrong. Without the first, a statement is unsupported; without the second, it overreaches.
Putting both parts together shows the limit before a reader acts on the claim.
It also puts words such as private, anonymous, trusted and no logs in their proper place. They are descriptions to examine, not proof of a property that an outsider can settle.
Sources, dates and what we do not cite
Every source has a defined role, and every gap is named.
Citable claims are kept in one fact sheet before they appear on a page. A sentence found on a competitor's site may therefore be absent: it has no approved evidence behind it.
The only outside measurement used here was run on 2026-08-31 on desktop, in English, for the United States market, across Google, Bing and two separate Yandex zones. It covered 950 candidate queries, recorded 69,506 unique canonical addresses and noted 1,443 provider limitations. Each number carries that date and source.
A forum post, an undated screenshot, a third-party search-volume estimate and an aggregate review score are not treated as facts. They may be useful leads, but they cannot support a claim here without a way to check them.
A named address is a pointer, not automatically an outside source. When an address or a service's own wording is shown, the page gives the date it was checked and says what the observation can and cannot establish. A conclusion drawn from those observations is marked as an inference, not a blacklist or a ranking.
Ownership is disclosed in the same block whenever a named service belongs to the operator behind this guide. It is also explained in full on the About page. An owned service is held to the same evidence rules as any other service.
When evidence is missing, the page says so. Borrowing a number from somebody else's dashboard would still be fabrication.
Corrections and updates
A correction changes the page and its date. There is no separate announcement.
Every page carries a last-updated value, and an edit changes it. If you saved an earlier copy, compare its date with the current page before relying on it.
There is no correction submission channel yet. The Contact page says so instead of printing an address nobody monitors.
What this site does not cover
Five topics stay outside the evidence available here.
- Case names, indictments, convictions and court dates. No primary documents are available, and a case summarised from secondary coverage is not evidence.
- Fee rates, minimums, maximums, delay ranges and payout speeds for any named operator. Nothing current is tracked here.
- A verdict on whether a specific service keeps logs. There is no external observation that could settle it.
- A legal conclusion for a specific country. The pages describe how the question is structured and stop there.
- A ranking, a numeric score or a recommended-services list. Comparisons here use stated features only.