Affiliate Disclosure & Transparency

The short version

Bitcoin Learning Academy has affiliate relationships with three companies: Trezor, Ledger, and Coinbase. If you click through to any of them from this site and make a purchase or open an account, we may earn a small commission. We only recommend products we believe serve Bitcoin beginners well, and our editorial decisions are not driven by which partner pays the highest commission.

Our current affiliate partners

• Trezor (hardware wallets)

  The original open-source hardware wallet, operating since 2014. We recommend Trezor because the firmware and hardware designs are fully auditable, Bitcoin-only firmware options minimize attack surface, and the Safe 3 model combines Secure Element security with open-source transparency at a beginner-friendly price.

• Ledger (hardware wallets)

  The most widely used hardware wallet brand, with strong mobile/iOS support via the Ledger Live companion app. We recommend Ledger as an accessible first hardware wallet, particularly for users managing coins from a phone. Firmware is not fully open source — a tradeoff we disclose on the wallets page.

• Coinbase (exchange)

  The regulated U.S. exchange most Americans use for a first Bitcoin purchase. We recommend Coinbase as a starting on-ramp because the onboarding is simple, USD deposits are FDIC-insured, and the company is publicly traded (NASDAQ). We also tell every reader to withdraw purchased Bitcoin to self-custody; exchanges are for buying, not for long-term holding.

What this means for you

• • You pay nothing extra. The commission comes from the merchant, not from you. Prices are identical whether you use our link or go direct.
• • We’d recommend these products anyway. The editorial decisions came first; the affiliate relationships came after. If a partner paid higher commissions but had a worse product, we would not move them up the recommendation list.
• • Our recommendations are not influenced by commission rates. Hardware wallet commissions are small relative to traffic we send elsewhere; no single partner is large enough to bias editorial.
• • If we lose faith in a product, we will stop recommending it regardless of revenue impact. Trust compounds; commissions do not.

Our commitments

• • All affiliate relationships will be clearly disclosed on any page where affiliate links appear — both as a page-level banner and as inline “(affiliate link)” markers next to the URLs themselves.
• • We will never hide or obscure affiliate relationships.
• • We will never recommend a product solely because it pays the highest commission.
• • If a reader reports a negative experience with an affiliate partner, we will investigate and update our recommendation if warranted.
• • We will keep this page up to date as partnerships change, and note the “last updated” date at the top so readers can see when the picture last shifted.

Questions or concerns?

If a recommendation here has steered you wrong, or if you spot an undisclosed affiliate link we missed, please reach out. Contact details are on the About page. Reader feedback is the most reliable mechanism we have to keep these recommendations honest.