Why Plainchain exists
Plainchain is a plain-English reference for people meeting cryptocurrency for the first time. We explain what it is and how it works, we are honest about the risk, and we never tell anyone what to buy.
Most crypto content is written by people who need you to do something — open an account, buy a coin, join a group. That incentive quietly bends the explanation. Plainchain was built to remove it. We are a reference site whose only job is to help a beginner genuinely understand cryptocurrency: what the words mean, how the technology works, and how to think clearly about the risks. If we do that well, you will be able to make your own decisions without us, which is exactly the point.
What we do
We write plain-English explainers that start from zero. Each one answers a single beginner question — what is cryptocurrency, how does a blockchain work, what is a stablecoin — directly in its opening lines, then builds up the detail for anyone who wants it. The hub of the whole site is our guide to what cryptocurrency is, and everything else fans out from there. We use analogies a non-technical reader can follow, we define jargon the first time it appears, and we would rather be clear than impressive.
What we will not do
We do not predict prices, name coins to buy, or promise anyone will make money — not out of modesty, but because that is the line between education and financial promotion, and we stay firmly on the education side of it. We do not cover presales, meme coins, airdrops, "guaranteed yield" schemes, or anything gambling-adjacent. When someone arrives asking "what should I buy," we answer the only honest version of that question: how to research a coin and judge the risk yourself, which explicitly is not a recommendation to buy anything.
How we stay independent
The site is almost entirely free of commercial links. The one exception is a single "how to start safely" handoff for readers who have already decided, on their own, to try crypto — a couple of reputable, well-regulated exchanges and one self-custody device. Some of those are affiliate links, which we label plainly, and we deliberately also recommend options that pay us nothing, such as the exchange Bitstamp and the software wallets MetaMask and Trust Wallet, when they are the honest answer. The full accounting is in our affiliate disclosure. A commission never buys a recommendation.
How our facts are dated
Crypto rules, laws and figures change constantly, so anything on this site that can go out of date carries the month we checked it. Where we could not verify something, we say so rather than guess, and we would rather leave a gap than fill it with a number we are unsure of. This is a reference, and a reference is only worth anything if you can trust its facts — so if you ever spot something stale, please tell us and we will fix it.