Ines Bakhtiari

About Ines Bakhtiari

Ines came to crypto from the least glamorous direction available: two years in reconciliation at a payments processor, matching settlements that did not match. She says it left her permanently unimpressed by any product that cannot explain where a number came from.

She covers earning rather than trading — staking, airdrops, exchange yield programmes and the tax treatment that arrives afterwards. She does not publish price predictions and does not name coins as recommendations, which she describes as the two easiest ways to be wrong in public.

Her recurring point is that a quoted yield is a gross figure on a volatile asset. Five per cent on something that falls thirty leaves you holding seventy-three and a half per cent of where you began, and no dashboard will show you that subtraction.

She plays in a pub quiz league and is the designated science-and-geography seat. She has never held a position she wrote about while writing about it, and the editorial policy says so on her behalf.

Areas of expertise

How Ines works

She reduces every advertised return to what is left after the platform's cut, the asset's price movement and inflation, and publishes that subtraction as the story.

Regulatory pieces get the primary document. If a rule is proposed, the piece links the proposal rather than a summary of a summary.

The record

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Credentials

Recent work

Standards and contact

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