About Tasman Coin

Who runs this desk

Tasman Coin is run by a small editorial team that writes and checks its own pages rather than republishing broker material. The desk is not a company you can open an account with, and it does not hold client money, place orders or manage anyone's positions.

We are not a broker, not a bank and not a licensed financial adviser. Nothing here is personal advice, and no page on this site is a substitute for reading a broker's own product disclosure material before you fund an account.

What the desk does and does not do

The desk explains how bitcoin CFDs work, what a margin figure means and what to check before funding an account. It does not tell you whether to trade, how much to risk or which position to take, and it cannot help with an account problem or a fund recovery.

For anything to do with an open account, the broker is the only party that can act. For personal advice, speak to a licensed adviser. The desk's role is limited to plain explanation and to recording what it checked and when.

How the desk is paid

Affiliate links are the only revenue. If a reader opens an account with a broker after following a link from this site, the broker may pay the desk a referral amount. That payment does not change what a page says, and it never buys a rating.

A broker cannot pay to have a weakness removed, softened or left out. If a check finds a problem, the problem is written down in the same words whether or not the broker has an affiliate arrangement with us.

How to Challenge Something Published Here

If a reader believes a figure or a statement on this site is wrong, the fastest route is to send the page address and the specific sentence, together with the source that contradicts it, and the desk will check it against its own record. Challenges are logged and answered individually. A challenge that turns out to be correct results in a correction to the page; a challenge that turns out to be mistaken gets a reply explaining the sourcing behind the original text.

The desk treats a challenge to a number as the most useful kind of feedback, because numbers are where a trading site does the most damage when it is wrong. If someone can show that the margin example for a 0.10-lot bitcoin position at 1:200 is misstated, or that the instrument convention of 1 lot equals 1 BTC and one pip equals 1.0 is being applied incorrectly, that is a correction the desk wants. The arithmetic is checkable, so disputes about it should be resolvable quickly.

Challenges about tone, emphasis or what a page leaves out are also accepted, though they are judged against the editorial standard rather than against a single source. If a reader thinks a risk is under-weighted, or that a caveat about dealing with an offshore entity should appear earlier, that is a legitimate challenge and the desk will consider restructuring the page. What the desk will not do is remove a sourced fact because a reader or a broker finds it inconvenient.

How the Australian Context Shapes What Gets Written

Every page is written for readers in Australia, which means amounts are in Australian dollars, funding is described in terms of PayID and bank transfer, and the regulator named is ASIC. That context is not decoration: it changes what a reader needs to know. An Australian opening an account with FxPro is dealing with FxPro UK Limited, an offshore entity, and the page says so plainly because the licensing position is different from dealing with an ASIC-licensed provider.

The leverage cap of 1:200 is presented as an Australian maximum, and the worked margin figure of about $385.00 for a 0.10-lot bitcoin position is there to make the cap concrete rather than abstract. A cap is not advice to use it, and the desk says that explicitly. The reference price of approximately 77000.0 is used so the arithmetic can be followed, not as a forecast or a live quote, and readers are expected to substitute the current price when they do their own calculation.

Local context also shapes what the desk refuses to assume. It does not assume a reader has traded before, so instrument conventions such as 1 lot equals 1 BTC and one pip equals 1.0 are stated rather than implied. It does not assume a reader knows which regulator matters, so the ASIC point is made wherever the broker is described. And it does not assume a reader will read a caveat at the bottom of a page, so risk framing sits inside the explanation rather than in a footer.

The Editorial Standard a Number Has to Meet Before It Appears

A number appears on Tasman Coin only if it can be traced to a source the desk can name and, where relevant, re-check, and that is why this page states fewer figures than a typical trading site. The leverage cap of 1:200 for Australian residents is published because it is a stated maximum, not an estimate. The margin figure of about $385.00 for a 0.10-lot bitcoin position at that cap is published because it follows arithmetically from the reference price and the lot size.

Where a cost is real but variable, the desk describes what the cost consists of and what it depends on instead of printing a number that would be stale by the time a reader acted on it. Spreads, commissions, swaps and minimum deposits fall into that category: they depend on the broker's current schedule, the account type and market conditions, so the page explains the components and leaves the exact figure to the broker's own documentation. That is a deliberate limit, not an omission.

The same standard applies to the reference price of approximately 77000.0 used in worked examples. It is labelled as a reference for illustration, not as a live quote, because the desk will not present a moving price as if it were fixed. When a reader sees a figure on this site, they should be able to ask where it came from and get a straight answer: a regulator's cap, a lot definition, a stated price used for illustration, or an arithmetic result from those inputs.

How This Desk Is Run and How Decisions Get Made

Tasman Coin is run as a small editorial desk with a single decision-maker who signs off every page, and no trading content goes live without that sign-off. The desk does not operate a trading book, so the person making editorial calls has no personal position in the instruments covered. Decisions about what to publish start with a reader question, a regulatory change or a gap in the existing pages, and each proposed page is checked against the facts we can actually source before it is written.

Every decision on this site is made against a written standard rather than a commercial target, and the standard is the same whether a page attracts traffic or not. When a proposed page touches bitcoin (BTC/USD), the desk confirms the instrument conventions first: 1 standard lot is 1 BTC and one pip is 1.0. If a claim cannot be tied to a sourced fact, it is either dropped or rewritten to describe what the outcome depends on, such as the margin required at a given leverage cap.

Corrections and updates are decided by the same person who approved the original page, which keeps accountability in one place. If a regulator changes its position, or a broker changes the entity that serves Australian residents, the desk treats that as a trigger to review every affected page rather than leaving the old text standing. Readers can see the result of that process in the way the FCA and CySEC caveat is repeated wherever FxPro is described, because the desk treats that as a fact that must travel with the broker's name.

What This Desk Will Not Publish, Even When Asked

The desk will not publish a spread, commission, swap or minimum deposit as a specific number, because those figures depend on the broker's current schedule and account type and would be presented as more certain than they are. It will not publish a leverage ratio other than the 1:200 cap that applies to Australian residents, and it will not describe that cap as a target. It will not publish a price as live when it is a reference used for illustration.

It will not publish praise of a cost it has no figure for. Words like competitive, tight or low applied to spreads, fees or commissions are treated as unsupported claims and are kept out of the text, because a reader cannot verify them and they do not help anyone decide whether a cost is acceptable. Instead the page says what the cost consists of and what it depends on, which is the only honest way to describe a variable cost without a current schedule.

It will not publish a guarantee of any kind, a claim about future returns, or language that suggests trading bitcoin is a way to get rich. Trading is high-risk and can lose more than the margin committed, and the desk writes on that basis. It will not name a funding method that is not on its verified list, which is why PayID and bank transfer are the only methods described, and it will not soften the point that FxPro does not hold an ASIC licence.

How the Site Is Funded and Where That Funding Stops

The site is funded by its own publishing operation and does not take payment for coverage, ranking or a favourable description of any broker, which is why no page here reads as a recommendation. Funding decisions sit with the same desk that sets the editorial standard, so there is no separate commercial team able to override a factual correction. If a funding source ever conflicts with a published fact, the fact stays and the funding is the thing that changes.

Funding does not buy a place in a worked example, a comparison or a caveat. The FxPro caveat about the FCA and CySEC licences and the absence of an ASIC licence appears because it is true for Australian residents, not because any party asked for it or paid for it to be softened. The same applies to the leverage cap of 1:200: it is stated as a cap and explicitly not as a setting to aim at, regardless of how that reads for any broker.

What funding does influence is the scope of what gets written first. The desk prioritises pages that answer questions Australian readers actually ask, such as how to fund an account using PayID or bank transfer, and how margin works on a bitcoin position. That is a choice about sequence, not about conclusions. No funder sees a page before publication, and no funder has the ability to have a sourced number removed after it is published.