About us
About Crypto Sydney
An independent guide written for people in Sydney who are about to do something specific with cryptocurrency — and want to know what it will actually cost before they do it.
What this site is
Crypto Sydney is an independent information website covering how cryptocurrency is bought, sold, stored, spent and taxed in Sydney and across New South Wales. We are not an exchange, a broker, a dealer or a financial adviser. We do not hold customer funds, take custody of anyone's assets, or manage anyone's money.
We started the site because the practical information Australians needed was scattered and, where it existed at all, usually written by whoever was selling something. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive way to buy Bitcoin in this city is roughly fifteen percent of your money, and almost nobody was saying so plainly.
What we cover
Everything on this site is built around a specific action a reader is about to take: walking to a machine, opening an account, funding it with cash, cashing out a position, filing a return, or working out whether someone contacting them is a scammer. We write from Sydney, for people transacting in Australian dollars under Australian law.
That means we pay close attention to things international guides ignore — AUSTRAC registration, PayID and Osko settlement, the Blueshyft newsagency cash network, ATO capital gains treatment, the AFSL regime arriving in April 2027, and the local history of platform failures.
How we research
We rely on primary sources wherever they exist: AUSTRAC and ASIC publications, ATO guidance, published operator fee schedules and platform documentation. Where we describe a fee, a limit or a rule, it comes from something we can point to rather than something we have heard.
We also test things ourselves. We have run purchases through exchanges, newsagency counters and crypto ATMs to compare real outcomes, and we have walked the CBD checking machine listings against reality. Where a page describes our own testing, it is labelled as such, and we do not invent case studies or attribute quotes to people who do not exist.
Crypto moves quickly. Fees, limits, registrations and availability change without notice, and pages that were accurate when written can drift. We date our reviews, we correct errors when they are pointed out, and we tell readers to verify current details with the provider before transacting. If you find something wrong, please tell us.
How we make money
Some outbound links on this site are affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission if you open an account, at no additional cost to you. This is how the site is funded.
We think that arrangement is fine as long as it is disclosed and as long as it does not buy editorial outcomes. No company can pay for a ranking, a review score or a favourable mention here. We publish the weaknesses of platforms we link to alongside their strengths, and we tell readers plainly when a cheaper route exists — including routes that earn us nothing. Our full editorial policy sets out the rules we hold ourselves to.
What we will never do
We will not give personal financial advice, because we are not licensed to and because we do not know your circumstances. We will not tell you which asset to buy or predict a price. We will not run a signal group, sell a trading course, or manage anybody's funds. And we will never ask you for a seed phrase, an account password or a payment — if anyone contacts you claiming to represent this site and asks for any of those, it is not us.
Contact
Corrections, questions and press enquiries go to contact@crypto-sydney.com, or use our contact page. We read everything, and reader corrections have improved a good number of these pages.