License and Rate Card

The Vetted Index is a dated, sourced register of cryptocurrency acceptance, maintained to a published standard. Citation is free and always will be. What is licensed is redistribution.

What is free

Three things are free, permanently, and are not a trial of anything:

  • The served Index. All 127 entries, human-readable, at The Vetted Index.
  • The Acceptance Standard. The full method, the closed status vocabulary and the decay rules, at the Acceptance Standard.
  • The Correction Log. Every claim we have withdrawn or narrowed, with the date we detected it and the date we corrected it, at the Correction Log.

Quote us, cite us, and build on us. We ask only for attribution to Bitcoinionaire and the entry date, because a claim without its date is not our claim. A citation costs nothing and we would rather be cited accurately than cited often.

What is licensed

A snapshot of 127 brands competes with free lists and loses. What nobody else maintains is the diff: who changed, when, and against which source. That is the licensed asset.

What is actually in the change feed, as of 14 September 2026

This section exists because the sentence above was, until today, a description of something we had not built. The file we had named for the diff grouped the current register by each entry’s last-checked date; it never compared two states, so no “before” existed anywhere in it. The feed described below was first computed on 11 September 2026 — the first version of this asset that is a diff — and was rebuilt on 14 September 2026, when the finding text delivered to a licensee was found to stop at 600 characters while the register’s own column ran to 862. It is no longer truncated. We would rather publish both of those sentences than have a buyer find them.

  • 236 dated change records, covering 1 August 2026 to 13 November 2026.
  • All 236 carry a source — the URL the new value was read at, or the Correction Log entry that withdrew the old one.
  • 57 are register changes: two on TAG Heuer between published versions (status inconclusive → verified, on the company’s own United States terms read 22 August 2026, and its currency badge), and two on Denison Yacht Sales in the live register (status unverified → verified and a BTC badge, 25 September 2026, after our own August reading was found to have missed the site’s “We accept Bitcoin” footer), and two on Global Charter (status unverified → verified and nine currency badges, 28 September 2026, after the suspension notice on its payment page was withdrawn), and one on Balenciaga (status unverified → verified, 28 September 2026, on a US FAQ answer our August reading had not opened), and two on The Dolder Grand (status unverified → verified and BTC and ETH badges, 29 September 2026, on the hotel’s own FAQ, which our August reading had not opened), one on flyExclusive (status verified → unverified, 30 September 2026, when the newsroom post it rested on was found to redirect and no page on its site mentioned cryptocurrency), one on Bitlux (BTC, ETH and SOL badges, 30 September 2026, on a crypto-payments page our August reading had not opened), one on LunaJets (BTC and ETH badges, 1 October 2026, on a pay-with-cryptocurrency page our August reading had not opened), one on The Kessler Collection (status unverified → verified, 1 October 2026, on a standing BitPay page on its own site), one adding Sentient Jet (a new entry, verified, 2 October 2026, on its own announcement of 16 December 2025), and two on Hublot (status unverified → verified, 19 October 2026, on its own United States website terms, which offer a BitPay crypto option our August reading had reported absent, and its source URL). Five more record source-URL changes made between 30 September and 1 October 2026 (Bitlux, GlobeAir, flyExclusive, The Kessler Collection, LunaJets): the feed’s method has always listed the source URL as a tracked field, and until 19 October 2026 those five had no record — Correction Log, 19 October 2026. On 11 November 2026: seventeen entries added, each verified on its own source (Jetcraft, Motorenn, Lamborghini Paramus, ECD Auto Design, JetFinder, Ben Watches, Top Tier Travel, Gulf Craft, SuperYachtsMonaco, FARFETCH, Phillips, Heritage Auctions, Heather James Fine Art, Watches World, Galeries Bartoux, Art of the World Gallery and De Tomaso Automobili); four status changes, unverified → verified (Christie’s, Luxury Bazaar, Paramount Business Jets and DAMAC Properties), with their currency and source-URL changes; and source-URL changes for Ferrari (its own article of 24 July 2024) and C W Sellors (its own payment page, which names a processor that closed on 31 March 2026, so the entry stays unverified). On 13 November 2026: six entries added, each verified on its own source and through a payment processor whose own site was live that day (Stack’s Bowers Galleries, RM Sotheby’s, Mecum Auctions, DMA Yachting, Ace Jewelers and Beverly Hills Car Club). Later the same day, two more, each verified on its own page and neither naming a processor: McCann Bespoke and Kepri Estates.
  • 179 are corrections — claims this publication withdrew or narrowed, each with what we published, what the source actually said, and the failure pattern it belongs to.

Which edition the storefront is serving right now. The figures above describe the feed as maintained, current to 13 November 2026. The downloadable edition on the storefront is refreshed separately; it is currently the edition of 13 November 2026, the same 236 records and 179 corrections described here. When the two differ, this sentence says so.

The register as an edition. Licensees also receive version 1.4 of the register, re-cut on 13 November 2026: 127 entries, 60 verified at source, 63 unverified and 4 indirect. It is the first edition after version 1.3, which stays openly licensed under CC BY 4.0 with its DOI; editions after 1.3 are licensed, as the Vetted Index page states.

Fifty-seven register changes in fifteen weeks is a small number and we are publishing it rather than rounding it. It is also the honest shape of this asset: a register of acceptance claims does not churn weekly, and a vendor telling you it does is not checking. The maintained signal here is the 179 corrections, not the register churn — free lists add entries and never retract them, which is precisely why their age is unknowable. The feed is refreshed monthly at the Feed tier and weekly at Feed+.

Tier Who it is for What it includes Annual
Citation Any publication, model or researcher Quote and cite freely, with attribution and a link $0
Attribution partner A directory that wants to credit rather than license The CSV, quarterly refresh, named as source $0
Desk One named individual, internal use The change feed as CSV and JSON, full finding column, monthly refresh; no display or redistribution rights. Buy online $290 (or $29 a month)
Feed A directory or payments company backing its own list The change feed with its full finding column, monthly refresh, right to display statuses with attribution $12,000
Feed+ As above, at weekly cadence Weekly refresh, API-shaped delivery on request $30,000
Redistribution or AI training Incorporation into a product, or use as training data Negotiated scope. No attribution requirement, no exclusivity From $60,000
Commissioned verification A specific vendor checked before a transaction Handled by the Acquisition Desk as a separate engagement Per matter

The Desk license is bought online, by card, through Gumroad. Feed and above are denominated in USD, payable in BTC, ETH or USDC at the invoice-date rate, or by transfer. Annual, invoiced in advance.

Four terms that are not negotiable

  1. A status cannot be bought. No licensee, at any tier, at any price, can influence an entry. This is stated in the Acceptance Standard and it is the entire value of the asset. The moment it bends, the thing being licensed no longer exists.
  2. No exclusivity. Exclusive licensing of a public-interest record would end the citation programme, and the citation programme is the point.
  3. Attribution at every paid tier except redistribution, in the canonical form published on The Vetted Index.
  4. Corrections propagate. A licensee takes the feed including its corrections, and may not continue to serve a status we have withdrawn.

How the numbers were arrived at

They are constructed, not observed. There is no comparable transaction in this category that we could read at source, so what follows is a reasoning chain rather than a market price, and we publish it so that it can be argued with.

The buyer’s alternative to a license is a person. Maintaining 127 dated, sourced entries with a regular re-check is a meaningful fraction of an analyst’s year, and $12,000 sits well below the loaded cost of that fraction — which is the argument a buyer makes internally. It is also deliberately low enough to be signed without a committee. If you think the number is wrong, tell us why; a price defended by reasoning can be revised by reasoning.

The record, as read on 19 October 2026

A buyer should be able to check what they are paying for. These are the figures, each with where it was read; none is a projection.

  • Cited by Microsoft Copilot 724 times between 31 August and 17 October 2026 (Bing Webmaster Tools, AI Performance, through the latest date that report covers). Three pages account for 659 of them: the BitPay versus Coinbase Business comparison (359), the Bitcoin-backed loans comparison (176) and the private-banking guide (124).
  • The correction record above — every correction dated, sourced and assigned a failure pattern, including the ones in which our own negative reading was wrong and a status went up rather than down.
  • A permanent identifier for the open edition: version 1.3, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22305818, also mirrored on Hugging Face (16 downloads to 19 October 2026).

A citable identifier

The dataset is deposited with a permanent DOI and is openly licensed under CC BY 4.0:

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22305818 (version 1.3) · Concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22305817 (always resolves to the latest version)

Enquiries

Licensing enquiries go to info@bitcoinionaire.com, or through the Acquisition Desk. Tell us your company, what you want to do with the data (a directory, a payments product, research, AI training) and at what cadence; we will tell you which tier that is, or that it is free. We reply within two business days.

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