101 Luxury Brands, Each Dated and Sourced — The Vetted Index
The Standard
Most published lists of luxury brands that accept Bitcoin share three qualities: no dates, no sources, and no method. They are assembled from press coverage, they are seldom revisited, and a claim that was true in 2022 sits on them unchallenged in 2026. This index was built to be the opposite of that.
Every entry carries a verification date, and each one names the source it was checked against — private aviation, yachts, watches, real estate, jewellery, hotels, fine art, private banking, spirits and more. Where an entry cannot currently be confirmed, it says so on the entry itself, rather than quietly retaining a claim that may have expired.
What “accepts Bitcoin” actually means
The phrase conceals at least three different arrangements, and the difference decides whether a purchase is possible at all.
Direct acceptance means the merchant quotes and settles in cryptocurrency, generally through a processor such as BitPay or Coinbase Commerce.
Restricted acceptance means the merchant takes cryptocurrency but constrains it, often in terms published nowhere near the products. Sotheby’s has accepted BTC, ETH and USDC on designated lots, and the bidder guidance it published for those sales requires payment from one of five named custodial exchange wallets — so a self-hosted hardware wallet is refused, and the buyer most likely to be bidding is precisely the one who cannot pay. ⚠️ That guidance is dated 2021 and written per sale, which we record here because we quoted it in the present tense for eleven verification rounds before opening it: read it as what Sotheby’s has required when it has taken cryptocurrency, not as standing policy, and confirm the conditions for the specific lot. TAG Heuer accepts self-custodied cryptocurrency through its online boutique, and caps the transaction at USD 10,000.
OTC conversion is the third arrangement, and it is not acceptance. The buyer sells cryptocurrency for fiat and the merchant is paid in fiat, exactly as it always was. Five entries below carry an explicit “Settlement route: OTC conversion” label and no coin badges, because describing them as crypto-accepting would be false in the one way that matters — at the point of sale.
How each entry is verified
The standard is own-site provenance: the company’s own published payment page, its terms and conditions, or a direct written confirmation from the company. Press coverage of a pilot programme is not sufficient.
Tiffany’s 2022 NFT collection and Gucci’s 2022 boutique trial were both widely reported; neither survives on those brands’ own sites today, and neither is recorded here as current acceptance. Every entry shows the date it was last checked.
What we cannot confirm, we say
Of the 101 entries, 72 are marked unverified and 85 carry no coin badge at all. A further 4 are listed for the settlement route rather than for direct acceptance — those houses do not take cryptocurrency themselves, and the entry says so in its opening line. These are not oversights. They are entries whose acceptance could not be re-established at the company’s own source on the date shown, and publishing that is more useful to a buyer than a round number that flatters the list.
Counted from the entries below: BTC is accepted at 14 brands, ETH at 12, USDC at 9, with LTC, SOL, USDT, DOGE, XMR, ADA, DOT and BNB appearing in smaller numbers.
Every figure on this page is computed from the index itself, and every claim in it is dated. If you find one that has gone stale, it is worth more to us than a correction is awkward — the record is the product.
Cite this Index
The Vetted Index is a versioned dataset. It is free to read, quote and cite. If you are a journalist, analyst, researcher or model developer, please cite the version you used — the figures move as entries are re-checked.
Canonical citation
Bitcoinionaire. The Bitcoinionaire Vetted Index, version 1.3, 22 August 2026. 101 entries, of which 25 verified against a first-party source. Available at https://bitcoinionaire.com/vetted-index/
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The Index is also issued as dated, numbered editions — fixed snapshots of the register, published so that a citation can be pinned to a version that will not move. Edition 1, 29 August 2026 records 101 entries, 25 of them verified against a first-party source. Cite an edition when the figures must stay fixed; cite this page when you want the current record.
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Free to read, quote and cite with attribution to Bitcoinionaire and a link to this page. Redistribution of the dataset in whole or in substantial part, and use as training data, require a licence. Licensing enquiries: info@bitcoinionaire.com. The verification methodology, the four-value status vocabulary and the six decay rules are published in full at The Acceptance Standard.
Audio & Technology
Audio & Technology
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 2 August 2026. devialet.com returns HTTP 403 to a plain fetch, which under our decay rules tells you nothing, so it was RENDERED in a browser: the site loads fully at 4,549 characters with zero cryptocurrency references. Carried BTC and ETH badges on an April stamp.
Audio & Technology
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026 and rendered in a browser rather than judged on a thin fetch: burmester.de serves 6,861 bytes and renders 341 characters of text, with zero cryptocurrency references; /en/, /contact and /client-services all return 404. Separately, this entry conflated subject matter with payment method — Burmester's automotive audio is OEM equipment fitted by Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, so it is not a purchase a consumer makes from Burmester in any currency.
Audio & Technology
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). 🔬 The brand is alive; the URL we published was not. Re-checked at source 4 August 2026: dcsltd.co.uk — the address this index carried — fails to connect on https and http, at both www and apex. That looked like a closure. Three candidate successor domains were loaded rather than assumed, and dcsaudio.com is live at 121,836 bytes, titled "dCS | Only The Music" (dcs-audio.com does not resolve at all). The entry survives with its URL corrected. On acceptance: neither the homepage nor the support section contains a single cryptocurrency reference, so the BTC and ETH badges are withdrawn.
Audio & Technology
Unverified — confirm directly. Re-checked at source 31 July 2026: the homepage is a fully server-rendered 181 KB document with no reference to cryptocurrency. Our prior entry claimed acceptance 'at select dealers' — a statement about third parties that cannot be verified at the brand's own site by construction. Re-verified at source 14 August 2026: the homepage renders 174,958 characters, still with zero crypto references.
Audio & Technology
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 2 August 2026: mcintoshlabs.com serves 6,368 characters of readable text with zero cryptocurrency references anywhere, and no source URL for this brand — crypto-specific or otherwise — is cited in any of our 73 published articles. Carried a BTC badge on an April stamp; the badge is removed with the claim.
Fashion & Apparel
Fashion & Apparel
Unverified — confirm directly. Gucci's 2022 US-boutique cryptocurrency pilot was widely reported, but re-checked at source on 31 July 2026 we found no current reference to cryptocurrency anywhere on gucci.com: the US homepage renders 1.57 million characters of HTML and 5,109 characters of body text with zero crypto references, the customer-service hub renders 3,019 characters with zero, and Gucci's own /payment-methods URL returns its 'PAGE FOR URL NOT FOUND' page. We do not restate acceptance from press coverage. Re-verified 14 August 2026 by RENDERING, because a plain fetch timed out and a timeout is not evidence: gucci.com/us/en renders 1,377,984 characters of HTML with zero crypto references.
Fashion & Apparel
Acceptance verified at source 8 August 2026 and HARDENED — currency list withdrawn. Philipp Plein's own Customer Care › Payments page enumerates its accepted methods: credit card, PayPal, cash on delivery, bank transfer, CRYPTO, Klarna Pay Later and gift voucher. An enumerated checkout list naming crypto alongside Visa and PayPal is the strongest class of acceptance evidence this programme recognises, and the live store reinforces it — the phrase “WE ACCEPT CRYPTO” appears on every product tile of the current Spring/Summer 2026 shop. But the brand names no currency: not Bitcoin, not Ethereum, not Dogecoin, on either page. The BTC, ETH and DOGE badges asserted a specificity the merchant never claims, and have been removed. Source: plein.com/us/payments/payments.html
Fashion & Apparel
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 2 August 2026. balenciaga.com returns HTTP 403 to a plain fetch — bot-blocking, which under our decay rules is not evidence either way — so it was RENDERED in a browser instead. The storefront loads (3,559 characters) with zero cryptocurrency references, and its own Payments FAQ was opened separately and read: 3,488 characters, no crypto option named. ⚠️ Stated rather than glossed: that FAQ is an accordion, so a collapsed payment list may not have been in the DOM. This downgrade rests on absence of evidence, which is exactly what "confirm directly" signals.
Fashion & Apparel
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026: the US storefront renders 1,223,447 bytes with zero cryptocurrency references, and the customer-service page (27,432 bytes) carries none. The Ethereum claim traces to 2021–22 press coverage rather than to any current own-site provenance.
Fashion & Apparel
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026 and RENDERED in a browser, not judged on the fetch: armani.com returns 882 KB of markup but only 1,133 characters of text to a fetch, and 960 characters when rendered — it is consent-gated. Zero cryptocurrency references and no payment-page links were reachable. ⚠️ This downgrade rests on absence of evidence rather than on a full read, which is precisely what "confirm directly" is meant to signal.
Fine Art & Collectibles
Fine Art & Collectibles
Acceptance verified at source 9 August 2026 — with a dating caveat this Index is recording against itself. Sotheby's own bidder guidance was read in full this session, having previously been cited rather than opened. Where a lot is designated “Cryptocurrency Payments,” Sotheby's accepts BTC, ETH and USDC, and states in its own words that “payments from self-hosted wallets will not be accepted”, listing five permitted custodians: Coinbase Custody Trust; Coinbase, Inc.; Fidelity Digital Assets Services; Gemini Trust Company; and Paxos Trust Company. A hardware wallet therefore cannot pay Sotheby's directly. ⚠️ The caveat: both pages carrying that rule are dated 2021 — the bidder's guide is stamped 10 June 2021 and says the restriction applies “for this auction”, and the payment-information article is stamped 12 May 2021 and is scoped to a single lot. So the honest reading is that when Sotheby's has taken cryptocurrency it has required a named custodial wallet and refused self-custody — published per sale, five years ago — rather than that this is standing policy today. Confirm the terms for the specific lot before bidding. Coin badges are held: Sotheby's names its accepted currencies explicitly, so the issue is the age and scope of the evidence, not its specificity. Source: sothebys.com/en/buy-sell/cryptocurrency-faq
Fine Art & Collectibles
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 7 August 2026, and the position is now materially stronger than "we could not confirm it". Christie's own Payment and Shipping page — reached from its own Help Centre rather than guessed, and read rendered — enumerates the methods it accepts at online checkout: major credit and debit cards, PayPal and pay by bank, with bank transfer for lots above the online ceiling. Cryptocurrency appears nowhere on it. The same page states that Christie's does not accept third-party payments and that funds must come from a bank account registered in the winning bidder's own name — a constraint that closes the settlement path more completely than Sotheby's named-custodian rule does, because it admits no crypto route at all. An earlier edition of this index recorded cryptocurrency integration on the strength of third-party reporting, which does not meet our provenance standard and has not been restated.
Fine Art & Collectibles
Verified at source (August 2026). Re-confirmed 2 August 2026. 🔬 A fetch returns 414 KB of markup but only 1,058 characters of text — too thin to judge — so the site was RENDERED: live works are priced in ETH on the marketplace itself (e.g. 0.02 ETH) and settlement is wallet-based and on-chain. This is native ETH settlement rather than a merchant accepting crypto through a processor, and the distinction is worth knowing before you plan around it.
Fine Art & Collectibles
Unverified — confirm directly. Verisart issues blockchain certificates of authenticity; that is its product, not its payment method. Re-checked at source 31 July 2026: its pricing page renders in full and lists card-paid plans at $29.99 and $49.99 per month with no cryptocurrency option. The Bitcoin references on the platform are the subject matter of certified artworks, not a way to pay. Our prior entry conflated the two. Re-verified at source 14 August 2026: the pricing page renders 34,141 characters with zero crypto references. Note the homepage alone returns only 543 characters of text and is a client-rendered shell — it is not evidence either way, and the pricing page is what carries the finding.
Fine Art & Collectibles
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026: artsy.net renders 6,560 characters with zero cryptocurrency references. ⚠️ Separately, this entry conflates the platform with the seller — Artsy is a marketplace and payment is settled by the individual gallery, so Artsy itself accepting Bitcoin is close to a category error. The same conflation class as Verisart and Burmester.
Fine Dining
Fine Dining
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 4 August 2026. theoldhomesteadsteakhouse.com returns HTTP 403 to a plain fetch — bot-blocking, which under our decay rules is not evidence either way — so it was RENDERED in a browser instead: the restaurant's site loads fully at 3,119 characters, with online ordering and nationwide shipping, and zero cryptocurrency references. Carried a BTC badge on an April stamp.
Hotels & Hospitality
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 5 August 2026: aman.com returns HTTP 200 and renders 4,154 characters with ZERO cryptocurrency references. ⚠️ This downgrade is larger than most, because the entry did not merely claim acceptance — it named five specific properties (Amanpuri, Aman Tokyo, Amangiri, Amanzoe, Aman New York) as accepting BTC and ETH via direct booking. None of that is supported by Aman's own site today, and our eight citations of aman.com are all bare homepages. Named-property claims require named-property evidence. Badges removed with the claim.
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 8 August 2026 and the finding is HARDENED. fourseasons.com returns 403 to an automated fetcher, which under this programme's rules means nothing at all; rendered in a browser it is a fully operating global hotel group, 10,212 visible characters, and it contains ZERO references to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin or any digital-currency payment option. The 403 was never the story. There is no published crypto payment route at group level. Source: fourseasons.com
Hotels & Hospitality
Acceptance verified at source 8 August 2026 — currency list withdrawn. The Pavilions publishes its own “Pay with Cryptocurrency” page, reached from its own navigation, and it is unusually specific: reserve by email, receive a payment link valid for 90 minutes, non-refundable, settle by QR code or wallet address. It also names its own exceptions — The Pavilions Bali and The Pavilions Phuket do NOT accept cryptocurrency. That is a merchant describing its own checkout, and acceptance stands. The coin badges do not. The page's “Accepted Crypto” roster runs to 30-odd tickers including ARK, ICX, LSK, STEEM, STRAX, IOT and SAI — and SAI has been dead since the Single-Collateral Dai migration of November 2019. A roster naming a currency retired six years ago is a payment processor's legacy capability list, not a hotel group's current acceptance list. Confirm the specific currency with the property before booking. Source: pavilionshotels.com/cryptocurrency/
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 2 August 2026: kesslercollection.com serves 4,881 characters with zero cryptocurrency references. The single URL we cite for this hotel group is its bare homepage.
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 6 August 2026: the URL carried in this index returned an HTTP 308 redirect, which was FOLLOWED rather than treated as a failure, and resolves to bluelagoon.com/accommodation/retreat-hotel — 895 words, live, trading, and containing ZERO references to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin or any ticker. The parent site likewise renders 794,443 bytes with none. URL corrected to the resolved destination. Status re-confirmed at source rather than carried forward, and no badge has been added.
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026. laucala.com redirects to www.laucala.com and renders 580,696 characters of HTML with zero cryptocurrency references; /faq, /contact and /rates return 404. Rendered in a browser as well as fetched, so this is not an empty-body artefact.
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026 and rendered as well as fetched: chablehotels.com renders 1,491 characters with zero cryptocurrency references. No crypto-specific source is cited for it in our content.
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly. Re-checked at source 31 July 2026: the homepage (568 KB) and the FAQ page (567 KB) are both fully server-rendered and neither contains any reference to cryptocurrency. Re-verified at source 14 August 2026: the homepage renders 569,496 characters, still with zero crypto references.
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026: theleela.com renders 328,585 bytes and 19,331 characters of body text with zero cryptocurrency references, and the contact page (164,790 bytes) carries none.
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 4 August 2026: doldergrand.com redirects to thedoldergrand.com, which serves a fully readable 98 KB page with no reference to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency or any digital asset in its visible text. The BTC and ETH badges are withdrawn. Note for the record: this is one of the acceptance claims our own retired May-2026 material repeated, and it has now been checked rather than carried forward.
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 4 August 2026: palazzoversace.ae serves a fully readable 137 KB page with no reference to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency or any digital asset in its visible text. The BTC, ETH and BNB badges are withdrawn — the BNB badge in particular asserted a chain-specific acceptance that appears nowhere on the property's own site.
Hotels & Hospitality
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 4 August 2026: sripanwa.com serves a fully readable 117 KB page with no reference to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency or any digital asset in its visible text. Four badges — BTC, ETH, USDT and USDC — are withdrawn. A four-asset claim is a specific, checkable assertion, and nothing on the resort's own site supports any of it.
Hotels & Hospitality
Settlement route: OTC conversion — this brand does not accept cryptocurrency directly. The buyer converts crypto to fiat through a desk or broker and settles in currency. Listed for the settlement path, not as a direct-acceptance brand (clarified 30 July 2026). The world's most iconic hotel — 202 duplex suites, no standard rooms, 24-hour butler service. Crypto settlement via OTC desk or BTC-collateralized loan. See our guide: bitcoinionaire.com/staying-at-burj-al-arab-with-bitcoin/
Jewelry & Gems
Jewelry & Gems
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 4 August 2026. tiffany.com returns HTTP 403 to a plain fetch, which tells you nothing, so it was RENDERED: the storefront loads at 4,382 characters with zero cryptocurrency references. 🚨 This entry should not have survived this long, and we would rather say so than quietly re-date it: goals §3 names Tiffany's 2022 NFTiff collection BY NAME as a past failure of ours — a one-time drop recorded as though it were ongoing acceptance — and the entry was still carrying an ETH badge on an April 2026 stamp. The badge is removed with the claim.
Jewelry & Gems
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 6 August 2026: graff.com returns an HTTP 302 that resolves to graff.com/us-en/home/, which renders 560 words with ZERO references to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin or any ticker. Our own documents cite the jeweller twice, both as a bare homepage, and neither citation supports an acceptance claim. Status re-confirmed at source rather than carried forward, and no badge has been added.
Jewelry & Gems
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026: boodles.com serves 41,557 characters of readable text with zero cryptocurrency references anywhere, and no crypto-specific source is cited for this brand in any of our 73 published articles. A fully-loaded site with nothing to find is a stronger negative than a thin one.
Jewelry & Gems
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 2 August 2026: repossi.com serves 9,117 characters of readable text with zero cryptocurrency references. A fully-loaded site with nothing to find is a stronger negative than a thin one. Carried an ETH badge on an April stamp; the badge is removed with it.
Jewelry & Gems
Unverified — confirm directly. Re-checked at source 10 August 2026 and downgraded from BTC, ETH and USDC. Nothing on C W Sellors' own site supports the claim: the homepage renders 15,278 characters, the FAQ 20,345, the terms and conditions 34,860 and the delivery page 17,903 — approximately 88,000 characters of the retailer's own words, with zero cryptocurrency references. A written enquiry to the company remains unanswered. Source: cwsellors.co.uk own FAQ and terms.
Jewelry & Gems
Acceptance verified at source 10 August 2026 — badges held. Gray & Sons publishes a first-party "Buy With Crypto" page which renders 9,610 characters and names its currencies explicitly: buying "with Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other digital assets". Both badges therefore track the retailer's own words. No payment processor is named and no minimum is published, so confirm the mechanics before committing. Source: grayandsons.com/buy-with-crypto/
Private Aviation
Private Aviation
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 5 August 2026: vistajet.com returns HTTP 200 and renders 7,721 characters with ZERO references to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin or any ticker, case-sensitively matched. The entry's previous wording — "cryptocurrency payment options" — is not supported anywhere on the operator's own site, and our own documents cite VistaJet exactly once, as a bare homepage. BTC and ETH badges removed with the claim.
Private Aviation
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 5 August 2026 and the method matters: a plain fetch of wheelsup.com returns HTTP 200 with ELEVEN characters of text — an empty client-rendered shell that could be mistaken for a dead site. Rendered in a browser it is a fully operating 4,379-character site with zero cryptocurrency references. Status unchanged from June; re-confirmed rather than carried forward, and no badge has been added.
Private Aviation
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026: aircharterservice.com serves a fully rendered 92,387 bytes and 16,420 characters of body text with zero cryptocurrency references; the FAQ, terms and payment-options URLs return 404.
Private Aviation
Unverified — confirm directly. Re-checked at source 31 July 2026: the homepage is a fully server-rendered 160 KB document with no reference to cryptocurrency, and two candidate payment and FAQ pages return the company's own 404. No own-site evidence of crypto acceptance could be found. Re-verified at source 14 August 2026: the homepage renders 162,003 characters, still with zero crypto references.
Private Aviation
Accepts BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT and XRP for charter (August 2026). 🆕 The first badge EXPANSION in ten batches of re-verification. Re-checked at source 7 August 2026: the operator's own dedicated page at private-jet-charter-flight.com/payments/bitcoin/ — discovered from its own navigation, not guessed — carries a heading "Accepted Cryptocurrencies" in Star Jets' own voice listing all five, and sets out the settlement sequence explicitly: request a quote, tell the desk you want to pay in crypto, receive a secure payment link or wallet address, fly. That names the payment step rather than the idea of payment, which is the standard this index adopted in August 2026. No processor is named and the roster contains no discontinued ticker. ⚠️ Read the rest of that page with care and do not rely on it: it asserts that crypto purchases are not taxed and that transactions cannot be traced to an individual. Both claims are false — paying in crypto is a disposal event for capital-gains purposes and sales or excise tax applies to the underlying purchase regardless of how it is settled. We verify what a company says about its own payment rails; we do not restate its tax commentary. Take independent advice on the tax treatment before settling.
Private Aviation
Unverified — the brand no longer trades under this name (August 2026). 🔬 The clearest example yet that a live, accurate, first-party crypto page can describe a company that is gone. Re-checked at source 6 August 2026: privatefly.com/about/bitcoin-payments-for-private-flights.html still returns HTTP 200 and still reads "PrivateFly was the first global private jet company to accept payment in Bitcoin", naming BTC, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and four USD stablecoins settled via BitPay. The first line of that same page reads "PrivateFly is now FXAIR." The operating successor, fxair.com, renders 463,805 bytes with ZERO references to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, BitPay or crypto. Two further tells date the orphaned page without any external source: it still offers BUSD and PAX, neither of which has existed under those names for years, and it renders the literal placeholder "{{telephone}}". Confirm any crypto settlement directly with FXAIR.
Private Aviation
Accepts cryptocurrency, currency unspecified (August 2026). 🔑 The second entry to take the LunaJets shape, and a reminder that a homepage is not a site. Re-checked at source 6 August 2026: bitlux.com renders 314 words with ZERO crypto references, and concluding there would have been wrong. Its own membership FAQ — discovered from the site's navigation rather than guessed — answers directly: "Can I pay for a private jet membership with cryptocurrency? Yes. Bitlux pioneered cryptocurrency settlement in private aviation and has accepted crypto payments since 2018, alongside conventional payment methods." That is a genuine first-party acceptance statement and the entry stands on it. ⚠️ But it names no currency and no processor, so the previous BTC badge is not supported by the source and has been removed. Note also that the brand's own name is not evidence of a payment method. Confirm the currency with the desk before planning a settlement around it.
Private Aviation
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 2 August 2026: apollojets.com renders 4,125 characters with zero cryptocurrency references. The operator is not cited with any source URL in our own content. ⚠️ Note for context: eight private-aviation operators WERE verified at source and added at S86, so this is a finding about Apollo Jets specifically, not about the category.
Private Aviation
Settlement route: OTC conversion — this brand does not accept cryptocurrency directly. The buyer converts crypto to fiat through a desk or broker and settles in currency. Listed for the settlement path, not as a direct-acceptance brand (clarified 30 July 2026). Bombardier Global 7500 acquisition and charter via VistaJet (accepting USDC), Air Charter Service (accepting BTC/ETH via OTC desk), and approved dealers. See our flagship guide: bitcoinionaire.com/buying-a-bombardier-global-7500-with-bitcoin/
Private Aviation
Accepts cryptocurrency, currency unspecified (August 2026). 🔬 An honest partial result rather than a clean one. Re-checked at source 5 August 2026: LunaJets' own site states, in its booking sequence, "Credit cards, debit cards, bank transfers and crypto are accepted." That is a genuine first-party acceptance statement and the entry survives on it. ⚠️ But it names no currency, and the site names no processor — so the previous BTC, ETH and LTC badges and the claim of settlement "via BitPay across 100+ wallets" are not supported by the source and have been removed. Acceptance is verified; the specifics are not. Confirm the currency with the broker before planning a settlement around it.
Private Aviation
Unverified — acceptance SUSPENDED by the company's own statement (August 2026). 🔬 This entry is the clearest case yet that a crypto page is not a checkout. Re-checked at source 5 August 2026: Global Charter still publishes a detailed crypto-payments page listing fourteen currencies — Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, BNB, Solana, XRP, Cardano, Dogecoin, Avalanche, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Shiba Inu and Dash — under the heading "We accept a wide array of cryptocurrencies". Its actual payment page at /pay/crypto says the opposite, in one line: "Crypto Payments Temporarily Unavailable — We are currently unable to accept cryptocurrency payments." Rendered in a browser to confirm, and the suspended page's own title still reads "Secure Crypto Payments". The marketing page says yes in fourteen currencies; the checkout says no. Badges removed with the claim. Re-check before assuming the suspension is permanent.
Private Aviation
Acceptance verified at source 10 August 2026, and the ETH badge removed. Monarch Air Group publishes a first-party page on Bitcoin payments for charter which states, in its own voice, that it "accepts Bitcoin (BTC) in addition to other traditional mainstream payment options". That page renders 4,523 characters and contains no occurrence of "Ethereum" or "ETH" anywhere — so BTC stands on the company's own words and ETH never did. No processor and no minimum are published. Source: monarchairgroup.com/bitcoin-payments-for-private-jet-charter/
Private Aviation
Europe's largest private jet operator, accepting cryptocurrency via BitPay on all bookings with no transaction fee. Its own announcement names Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Dogecoin. Verified August 2026 against globeair.com. ⚠️ Provenance note: the source is a company news post, not a live payment page, and its sitemap last-modified date is March 2024 — re-confirm before relying on it for a purchase.
Private Aviation
Private jet charter brokerage operating a dedicated Bitcoin page linked from its main navigation: "We accept Bitcoin for private jet charter, offering clients a modern payment option alongside traditional methods." Bitcoin only — no other currency is named. Verified August 2026 against villiersjets.com/bitcoin.
Private Aviation
Riga-based charter operator with a dedicated crypto payments page: "BBAC accepts BTC, ETH, USDC, and USDT on all charter bookings. Same quote, same contract, same service." USDT is also accepted. Verified August 2026 against bbac.aero. ⚠️ Note for future checks: the domain is bbac.aero — balticbac.com does not resolve.
Private Aviation
Charter and aircraft sales brokerage with a published crypto payment gateway: "Whether you hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, or stablecoins, our gateway allows you to pay using your preferred digital asset." Identity verification is required before settlement, via iDenfy. Verified August 2026 against 5starjets.com.
Private Aviation
Charter broker with access to 3,500+ aircraft, stating on its own homepage: "We accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Solana, USDC, USDT, and more." USDT is also accepted. Verified August 2026 — and only because the page was RENDERED: a plain fetch of hautejets.com returns 60 characters of text and would have produced a false negative on a company that plainly accepts.
Private Aviation
US charter brokerage with a "Crypto Charter" page in its main navigation naming Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, Litecoin and Dogecoin. ⚠️ Restricted acceptance, stated plainly by the operator: crypto is converted to US dollars at booking through a licensed processor, so the carrier is paid in fiat. Verified August 2026.
Private Aviation
NYSE-listed fractional and Jet Club operator (Exclusive Jets, LLC) which states on its own newsroom: "we pride ourselves on being one of the first Jet Clubs that allows you to buy flights with crypto." ⚠️ No specific currencies are named anywhere on its own material, so no coins are claimed here, and the source is a newsroom post rather than a payment page. Confirm the accepted assets directly.
Private Aviation
European charter operator (Paris, Nice, Luxembourg, Dubai, Bangkok) which states: "IBC Aviation now integrates digital assets as a secure payment method for all our charter solutions… accepting payments in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), as well as major stablecoins such as Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC)." Verified August 2026 against ibc-aviation.com — note the hyphen; ibcaviation.com refuses connections and is not the company's domain.
Private Banking & Finance
Private Banking & Finance
Unverified as a payment-acceptance entry — confirm directly. Re-checked at source 31 July 2026: llb.li renders 177 KB with no reference to cryptocurrency and the digital-assets URL returns 404. LLB may well offer digital-asset services to banking clients under Liechtenstein's regime; this index records whether a brand accepts cryptocurrency as payment, and that is a different claim which we could not substantiate at source. Re-verified at source 14 August 2026: 178,184 characters, still zero crypto references. Note that www.llb.li now returns a 308 redirect to the apex llb.li — a redirect is not a failed check and says nothing about acceptance.
Private Banking & Finance
Unverified as a payment-acceptance entry — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 8 August 2026. AMINA is a Swiss regulated crypto bank (formerly SEBA Bank; seba.swiss redirects to aminagroup.com), with a MiCAR-regulated European entity. Its own “Available cryptocurrencies” page is a table of assets it CUSTODIES, TRADES, STAKES and accepts as LOAN COLLATERAL — Bitcoin and Ethereum among them. That is a list of what the bank holds for clients, not a list of currencies you can pay the bank in. Same distinction that removed Galaxy Digital and Sygnum Bank in August 2026. The BTC and ETH badges have been removed: this entry's own description already read “infrastructure counterparty, not a retail crypto-accepting merchant” while the badges asserted the opposite. Retained as an infrastructure counterparty. Source: aminagroup.com/available-cryptocurrencies/
Real Estate
Real Estate
Unverified as a payment-acceptance entry (August 2026). Re-checked at source 7 August 2026: propy.com renders 3,259 words of visible text and its crypto references are to "Crypto Escrow", recording deeds onchain, and the share of buyers who fund deposits with crypto. That is settlement and title INFRASTRUCTURE offered to buyers and sellers — a service that helps a crypto-funded purchase complete — and it is not the same as Propy accepting cryptocurrency for its own fees. The distinction is the one this index applies throughout: the subject matter of a business is not its payment method. Listed for the settlement path, not as a direct-acceptance brand. Confirm directly before planning a transaction around it.
Real Estate
Unverified — confirm directly. 🔑 Resolved 14 August 2026, and it resolves negative. The 31 July entry recorded that 'bitcoin' appeared twice in the rendered page and refused both verification and dismissal because it could not read the signal in context. Read in context: the page renders 530,585 characters in which 'bitcoin' appears twice and 'BTC' six times, and every instance sits inside a currency-display picker — BTC listed beside Bahrain Dinars, Bermuda Dollars and the Chilean Unit of Account, carrying an exchange rate of 0.0000158962. That is a tool for displaying listing prices in a unit of the reader's choice, not a way to pay. No first-party evidence of cryptocurrency acceptance was found. The July decision to refer rather than guess was the right one.
Real Estate
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 4 August 2026: compass.com renders 5,862 characters with zero cryptocurrency references. 🔬 A raw markup sweep returns one apparent "crypto" hit, and reading it in context is the whole point of the exercise: it is window.crypto.getRandomValues(), the browser's Web Crypto API, inside minified click-stream code. That is a JavaScript function, not a payment option. Carried BTC and ETH badges on an April stamp.
Real Estate
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026 and rendered in a browser: theagencyre.com produces 100,270 characters with zero cryptocurrency references, and its contact page carries none. Two further URLs returned HTTP 429 (rate-limited), which is uninformative either way and is recorded rather than counted as evidence.
Real Estate
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 7 August 2026 by rendering, not by fetching: damacproperties.com serves 4,271 words of visible text and contains no reference to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency or digital-asset payment, and exposes no crypto or payment route from its own navigation. The path a crypto page would occupy, /en/damac-crypto/, returns 404. Our own published coverage of this developer cites a specific project page; that page was loaded as well and renders 5,920 words with the same result. The developer is trading normally and the projects are real — it is the acceptance claim that cannot be supported at source.
Real Estate
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 5 August 2026: engelvoelkers.com renders with zero cryptocurrency references, and its own terms of use (18,676 characters) contains none. ⚠️ The previous entry made a specific infrastructure claim — settlement "via its regulated XEROF crypto gateway" — and a specific claim with no source is worse than a vague one, because it reads as though it has been verified. Nothing on the brokerage's own site names XEROF or any crypto settlement route. Badges removed with the claim.
Space & Experiences
Space & Experiences
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). 🚨 This entry is named explicitly in our own editorial standards as a past failure — a suspended spaceflight programme listed as accepting Bitcoin — and it was still carrying a BTC badge until 1 August 2026. Re-checked and RENDERED that day: virgingalactic.com renders 1,199 characters, offers "limited spaceflight reservations", and contains zero cryptocurrency references of any kind. No deposit mechanism in any currency is published on the site.
Space & Experiences
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 4 August 2026: gozerog.com returns a fully readable 106 KB page and contains no reference to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency or any digital asset anywhere in its visible text. The BTC badge had no support on the company's own site and is withdrawn.
Space & Experiences
Unverified — confirm directly. 🔑 Corrected 14 August 2026: the brand did not disappear, it changed domain, and our previous entry read the one as the other. We had recorded wally.it as serving nothing and withdrawn the route on that basis. Over plain HTTP wally.it in fact returns 200 with a 94-byte empty placeholder from a corporate domain-holding range; the live site is wally.com, discovered from Ferretti Group's own brand links rather than guessed, and loaded before being substituted. Wally is trading normally — the current site carries the full sail and motor fleet, brokerage and contacts. Re-checked at source 14 August 2026: wally.com renders 79,704 characters and its own legal notice 83,581, giving 163,285 characters of first-party estate with zero cryptocurrency references. Acceptance remains unverified; the business does not.
Spirits & Wine
Spirits & Wine
Unverified as a payment-acceptance entry — confirm directly (August 2026). 🔬 This one needs the distinction spelled out, because a keyword check gets it wrong. A plain fetch of blockbar.com returns 46 characters of text, which is not evidence of anything, so it was RENDERED: 6,112 characters, a fully-operating marketplace with live releases priced in US dollars. Its only Ethereum reference anywhere is "Sign in with Ethereum wallet", offered alongside Sign in with Google and Sign in with Apple — that is an authentication method, not a payment method. The FAQ's own payment answer names wire transfer, arranged by pre-approval through their concierge. The ETH badge asserted that you can pay BlockBar in Ether; what the site actually offers is a way to log in with a wallet. Badge removed with the claim.
Spirits & Wine
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 8 August 2026 and the finding is HARDENED, against our own earlier coverage. cultwines.com renders 5,461 visible characters and its operating site wineinvestment.com renders 4,846 — and NEITHER contains a single reference to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum or digital-asset settlement. Cult Wines is a fine-wine investment house priced in fiat. ⚠️ This contradicts Bitcoinionaire's own fine-wine guide, which describes Cult Wines as accepting Ethereum natively; that article is queued for correction. Where this Index and an article disagree, the Index is the later reading and governs. Source: cultwines.com, wineinvestment.com
Spirits & Wine
Verified at source (August 2026), with two corrections that matter more than the re-stamp. 🔬 The URL we published — winechain.co — is DEAD: it closes the connection on HTTPS under two independent methods (a TLS unexpected-EOF to a plain fetch, ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED in a browser) and returns 404 over plain HTTP. The near-miss winechain.com was loaded rather than assumed, and it redirects to authena.io, an unrelated Swiss traceability company — substituting it would have been a false match. WineChain itself is alive and now hosted by Wine Spectator at winechain.winespectator.com. On that live page the acceptance statement is explicit: buyers create an account and add USDC to a wallet to purchase releases. ⚠️ We previously recorded ETH; the company's own current wording names USDC, and the entry is corrected accordingly. ⚠️ Also noted rather than glossed: two of the page's other crypto references are survey questions asking visitors whether they have ever used cryptocurrency — market research, not acceptance.
Spirits & Wine
Accepts cryptocurrency, currency unspecified (August 2026). 🔑 The third entry to take the LunaJets shape, and the one where the distinction matters most. Acceptance stands on the strongest evidence this index holds — a direct written confirmation from BAXUS on 28 July 2026 that crypto is accepted at checkout through Helio (now MoonPay Commerce), the buyer connecting an external wallet and paying in the currency of their choice. ⚠️ But all three previous badges have been removed. Re-checked at source 7 August 2026: baxus.co renders a working marketplace of 2,711 listings priced entirely in US dollars with zero crypto references, and the company's own Terms and Conditions commit to nothing more specific than payment "via one or more cryptocurrencies that we may elect to accept from time to time" — discretionary, revocable, and naming no currency. Every other crypto reference in those Terms describes the Solana NFT title layer: bottles are held in bonded vaults and tokenised, and a wallet is required only to move a token off the platform. The chain a product's title sits on is not a currency the merchant accepts, and the previous SOL badge asserted exactly that conflation. Confirm the currency with BAXUS before planning a settlement around it.
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Accepts Bitcoin for vehicle purchase via BitPay (August 2026). Re-checked at source 7 August 2026: the dealership's own page at postoakmotors.com/bitcoin-houston-tx/ sets out the mechanics step by step — the buyer tells their Brand Specialist they intend to pay in cryptocurrency, opens and verifies a BitPay account, completes Post Oak's BitPay Information Request form with government ID and business documentation, and on approval receives a BitPay invoice carrying a QR code payable from their own wallet. A separate NYDIG arrangement offers bitcoin-collateralised lending for buyers who prefer not to sell. ⚠️ The previous ETH badge has been removed and the reason is worth stating, because the page appears to support it: the eighteen-currency list further down that page is a verbatim recital of BitPay's own supported-currency roster rather than Post Oak's, and it still names BUSD, which has not existed under that name for years. A payment processor's capability list is not a merchant's acceptance list. Post Oak's own voice names Bitcoin, and only Bitcoin. Confirm any other currency with the desk first.
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Unverified — confirm directly. The storefront has been continuously unreachable since 20 July 2026, returning a Cloudflare 521 origin error on every re-check, most recently on 10 August 2026 — day twenty-one — on both HTTPS and plain HTTP. It was formerly a European exotic car marketplace advertising full cryptocurrency support. That claim cannot be tested while the origin is down, and the route is withdrawn until the site returns and acceptance is re-verified at source. ⚠️ The entry is HELD rather than removed deliberately: an unreachable shop is not the same thing as a closed company, and this Index removes a brand only on evidence that the business itself has gone.
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 5 August 2026: gothamdreamcars.com renders 6,323 characters and its own FAQ page 1,467 more, with zero cryptocurrency references across both. Status unchanged from June; re-confirmed at source rather than carried forward, and no badge has been added.
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 4 August 2026: prestigeimports.com renders 2,568 characters — a working dealership site listing new and pre-owned inventory — with zero cryptocurrency references. 🔬 Its raw markup returns four "crypto" matches and every one is window.crypto.getRandomValues(), the browser Web Crypto API. A keyword count would have scored this entry higher than most genuine ones. Carried a BTC badge on an April stamp.
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Acceptance verified at source 8 August 2026 — renamed, and the currency list withdrawn. This entry has always pointed at ilusso.com, a Florida-based pre-owned exotic dealer, not at Bugatti Automobiles. Bugatti the manufacturer does not sell direct for cryptocurrency; iLusso is the route, and the entry now says so — the same convention this Index already uses for “Porsche (via BitCars/Post Oak)”. iLusso's own homepage carries the line “We Accept All Crypto” and names no individual currency anywhere, so the BTC and ETH badges are not supported and have been removed. Note also that the crypto line sits inside iLusso's SELL-YOUR-CAR funnel, so confirm the direction of settlement before committing. Source: ilusso.com
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). 🔬 A worked example of why an HTTP status is not a verdict. Re-checked at source 4 August 2026: lamborghininewportbeach.com returns 403 to a fetcher, which tells you nothing about the business. Rendered in a browser it resolves to lambonb.com, a live and fully operating Lamborghini dealership — and its rendered page contains no reference to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency or any digital asset. The BTC badge is withdrawn and the URL corrected.
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Unverified as a Porsche claim — confirm directly. Re-checked at source 10 August 2026. Post Oak Motor Cars' Bitcoin page is real, first-party and detailed: it renders 5,299 characters, names BitPay as the rail, and sets out a settlement sequence in which the buyer must hold or open a BitPay account, verify identity, complete the dealership's own information request with government ID, and pay the resulting invoice from that BitPay wallet. ⚠️ But "Porsche" appears on that page exactly once, in the navigation. The dealer accepts cryptocurrency; that is not the same claim as Porsche accepting it, and this entry is listed for the settlement route rather than as a manufacturer acceptance. Source: postoakmotors.com/bitcoin-houston-tx/
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Unverified — confirm directly. Re-checked 14 August 2026 and the status is HELD, but this entry now names the route it was silently omitting. BitPay announced on 17 October 2023 — its announcement is still live — that Ferrari dealerships within the United States would accept Bitcoin, Ether and USDC with no additional fees, naming ten participating US dealers. That is real, dated and first-party sourced, and it is territorially scoped. Ferrari itself publishes nothing about cryptocurrency across 68,213 characters of its own estate — the en-EN and en-US homepages, the legal sections behind them and the store terms, word-boundary matched 13 August 2026. The entry stays unverified for two reasons: a dealer network's payment processor is not the marque's own acceptance, and the announcement is nearly three years old with no first-party confirmation that the programme still runs. ⚠️ Earlier editions of our own Ferrari guide stated that the programme extended to European dealers by July 2024 and internationally by year end. No source supports that — Reuters reported only an intention — and we withdrew it on 13 August 2026. Sources: BitPay's announcement of 17 October 2023, and ferrari.com's published legal terms.
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Settlement route: OTC conversion — this brand does not accept cryptocurrency directly. The buyer converts crypto to fiat through a desk or broker and settles in currency. Listed for the settlement path, not as a direct-acceptance brand (clarified 30 July 2026). Rolls-Royce Phantom, Ghost, Cullinan available via OTC desk settlement through specialist dealers including Park Place Motorcars and Platinum Motorcars. Bespoke commission via Goodwood also facilitated. See our guide: bitcoinionaire.com/buying-a-rolls-royce-phantom-with-bitcoin/
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Verified at source 20 August 2026. cryptoemporium.eu is a cryptocurrency-only marketplace: its own homepage title is “Pay With Bitcoin | Spend Cryptocurrency” and its own copy states “Our native currency is Bitcoin, we also accept Ethereum, Tether, Dogecoin, Litecoin, Ripple and Dash.” Those seven are the currencies the brand itself names and are the only ones recorded here. ⚠️ Two limits on this entry, both read rather than inferred: the page carrying the currency list also carries copy dated “Q4 of 2021” in the future tense, so the rail is current as published but not recently restated; and the catalogue spans cars, motorcycles, watches, property, land, electronics, artwork, clothing and collectables, so it crosses several Index categories and is filed under its lead category, following the BitCars.eu precedent.
Supercars & Exotic Rentals
Verified at source 20 August 2026. O'Gara Coach publishes a first-party page at ogaracoach.com/bitpay.htm headed “BUYING WITH BITPAY” that documents the process in full: the buyer tells their sales specialist, opens and identity-verifies a BitPay account, links a wallet, and O'Gara issues a QR-coded invoice for the agreed amount — with a stated 1% service fee, and a disclaimer covering cancellation, reversal and refund. The dealer group sells Aston Martin, Bentley, Bugatti, Koenigsegg, Lamborghini, McLaren and Rolls-Royce. ⚠️ The page names NO cryptocurrency, so no currency badges are recorded (the LunaJets rule: acceptance survives, the coin badges come off). ⚠️ The documented invoice is for “the agreed amount of the deposit”, so this is a verified route to pay a deposit in crypto and not, on this source, a verified route to settle a whole vehicle.
Watches & Timepieces
Watches & Timepieces
Unverified — confirm directly. The storefront has been continuously unreachable since 20 July 2026, returning a Cloudflare 522 origin error on every re-check, most recently on 10 August 2026 — day twenty-one — on both HTTPS and plain HTTP. It was formerly a luxury watch and jewellery marketplace specialising in cryptocurrency transactions (consolidated from two duplicate entries, 30 July 2026). ⚠️ Note that a specialism in cryptocurrency is the subject matter of a business, not evidence of a working checkout — and neither can be tested while the origin is down. The route is withdrawn until the site returns and acceptance is re-verified at source; the entry is HELD rather than removed because an unreachable shop is not a closed company. For a route verified this month, see The 1916 Company.
Watches & Timepieces
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 6 August 2026: chronext.com renders 1,134 words and its own FAQ — discovered from the site's navigation, 1,086 words, with a dedicated payment-methods section — contains ZERO references to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, BitPay or any ticker. The FAQ names card payments and Google Pay and no digital-asset route. Status re-confirmed at source rather than carried forward, and no badge has been added.
Watches & Timepieces
✅ Verified direct acceptor, re-confirmed at source (August 2026). Re-checked 6 August 2026 and this entry survives re-verification with every badge intact — the first in nine batches to do so. The 1916 Company's own page states: "The 1916 Company proudly accepts Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), USDC, USDT, and other leading stablecoins through BitPay", and it goes further than a marketing claim by naming the checkout step itself — "Select 'BitPay' during checkout as your payment method" — plus an in-store route through a Sales Professional. Dated by the publisher to 11 October 2024. ⚠️ Note the method: the domain returns HTTP 403 to a plain fetcher and is fully alive when rendered, so a fetch-only check would have wrongly downgraded it. BitPay converts at the point of sale; the merchant is not necessarily holding the asset. Source: the1916company.com/blog/bitpay-as-a-payment-option.html
Watches & Timepieces
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026), and the URL we published was broken. Re-checked at source 6 August 2026: the domain carried in this index, watches-of-switzerland.com, REFUSES CONNECTIONS outright — a connection-layer failure, which decay rule 3 treats as real signal rather than as blocking. ⚠️ But rule 4 then reversed the outcome: candidate domains were LOADED rather than assumed, and watchesofswitzerland.com is live at 668,138 bytes with watches-of-switzerland.co.uk live at 1,043,318. The retailer is trading normally and the entry's URL has been corrected. Neither live site contains any reference to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin or any ticker, so acceptance remains unverified and no badge has been added.
Watches & Timepieces
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026. chrono24.com returns HTTP 403 to a plain fetch — bot-blocking, which under our decay rules is not evidence either way — so it was RENDERED in a browser instead: the site loads fully, 8,130 characters, with zero cryptocurrency references. The single Chrono24 URL cited in our own articles is the bare homepage.
Watches & Timepieces
Unverified — confirm directly. Re-checked at source 10 August 2026 across roughly 107,000 characters of Bob's Watches' own published words — homepage 17,700, payment methods 4,784, FAQ 30,192 and terms and conditions 54,269 — with zero cryptocurrency references, including on the page whose entire subject is how to pay. A retailer that publishes a payment-methods page and does not list cryptocurrency on it is the clearest negative evidence available short of a written reply. A written enquiry remains unanswered. Source: bobswatches.com/payment-methods
Watches & Timepieces
Inconclusive — the check could not be completed, and that is recorded rather than resolved in either direction. Re-checked at source 10 August 2026, following an equally inconclusive check on 8 August. tagheuer.com returns 403 to a fetcher and renders normally in a browser as a fully operating brand, so the 403 tells us nothing. Its US help and payment URLs now return 404 outright, and the FAQ host the brand's own error page points to, faq.tagheuer.com, renders a 481-character shell whose category navigation does not resolve. TAG Heuer's widely cited BitPay route, with its US-only USD 10,000 ceiling, can therefore be neither confirmed nor refuted from the brand's own published pages. ⚠️ The badges are held rather than stripped because stripping them would assert a negative this check does not support — but note the open question they represent. Source: tagheuer.com, faq.tagheuer.com
Watches & Timepieces
Unverified — confirm directly. Badges removed 10 August 2026, and the reason is worth stating plainly because it is a defect in this Index rather than in Hublot. The BTC and ETH badges rested on a page that never mentions Hublot: the cited URL is The 1916 Company's own blog post about its own BitPay checkout, dated October 2024, which names Rolex and Patek Philippe and not Hublot. Hublot's own site, rendered (it returns 403 to a plain request), carries no crypto payment reference at all — the homepage renders 4,600 characters with none, and its Website Terms and Conditions of Supply of Products render 8,885 characters containing no "bitcoin", no "crypto" and no "BitPay". The single "Ethereum" on that page sits in the licence clause for the Hublot | Murakami NFT, which is a title layer and not a payment method. A retailer's acceptance is not a manufacturer's acceptance. Source: hublot.com own terms, read 10 August 2026.
Watches & Timepieces
Unverified — confirm directly. Re-checked at source 10 August 2026 and the BTC badge removed. Luxury Bazaar's own site carries no cryptocurrency payment reference: homepage 14,957 characters, FAQ 17,934, terms and conditions 32,986, all zero. The claim appears widely in third-party lists and is not restated here on that basis. Source: luxurybazaar.com own FAQ and terms.
Wellness & Medical
Wellness & Medical
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026: cliniquelaprairie.com renders 196,501 bytes and 10,485 characters of body text with zero cryptocurrency references; the FAQ, contact and terms URLs return 404.
Wellness & Medical
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 4 August 2026: shawellness.com renders 6,259 characters with zero cryptocurrency references, and the clinic is not cited with any source URL in our own content. Carried BTC and ETH badges on an April stamp.
Wellness & Medical
Unverified — confirm directly. Re-checked at source 10 August 2026: kamalaya.com renders 19,228 characters with zero cryptocurrency references, and the booking terms URL previously followed now returns 404. Source: kamalaya.com
Wellness & Medical
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026: thebodycamp.com renders 9,603 characters with zero cryptocurrency references, and no crypto-specific source is cited for it anywhere in our own content.
Wellness & Medical
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 4 August 2026: vivamayr.com renders 7,556 characters of readable text with zero cryptocurrency references anywhere, and no source URL for this clinic — crypto-specific or otherwise — appears in any of our 73 published articles. A fully-loaded site with nothing to find is a stronger negative than a thin one. Carried a BTC badge on an April stamp; the badge is removed with the claim.
Yachts & Marine
Yachts & Marine
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 5 August 2026: burgessyachts.com renders with zero cryptocurrency references, and its own charter FAQ — 31,279 characters, discovered from the site's own navigation rather than guessed — contains none either. The previous wording, "accepting cryptocurrency transactions", has no support on the brokerage's own material. BTC and ETH badges removed with the claim.
Yachts & Marine
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026: the homepage is a fully server-rendered 1,481,284 bytes with zero cryptocurrency references, and the yachts-for-sale index carries none either. Fraser may still handle a crypto-funded transaction through a buyer's own OTC arrangement; this index records published payment acceptance, which is a different claim.
Yachts & Marine
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source on 1 August 2026: camperandnicholsons.com serves 23,619 characters of readable text with zero cryptocurrency references. The one URL we cite for this brokerage is its bare homepage, not a payment or settlement page.
Yachts & Marine
Unverified — confirm directly. Re-checked at source 10 August 2026: y.co renders 13,105 characters and its charter section 23,947, with zero cryptocurrency references in either. Y.CO publishes no payment page of its own. Source: y.co
Yachts & Marine
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). Re-checked at source 6 August 2026: denisonyachtsales.com returns HTTP 200 and renders 785 words with ZERO references to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin or any ticker, and the site exposes no payment, finance or FAQ page from its own navigation that names one. Our own documents cite the brokerage twice, both as bare homepages. The previous BTC and ETH badges are not supported by the source and have been removed with the claim. This was the last June-stamped entry in the index.
Yachts & Marine
Unverified — confirm directly (August 2026). 🔬 A second worked example of why an HTTP status is not a verdict. Re-checked at source 7 August 2026: oceanindependence.com returns 403 to a fetcher, which tells you nothing about the business. Rendered in a browser it is a large, fully-operating brokerage — fifteen global offices, yachts listed for sale from EUR 5.95m to EUR 54m, charter listings priced weekly, a 2026 copyright — and it contains no reference to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency or digital-asset settlement anywhere in its visible text or its navigation. Our earlier note recorded acceptance via Salamantex on the basis of trade press, which is third-party reporting and does not meet our provenance standard. The company is trading normally; only the crypto claim is unsupported.
Verified Brand Profiles
Each verified brand below now has a dedicated, server-rendered profile page, re-checked against the company’s own current website. Browse the individual profiles: