Here’s a full draft. Every detail I made up is in square brackets, so you can find and swap them quickly before it goes live. I’ve avoided inventing formal qualifications, since a fake licence or certificate on a finance site could get you into real trouble if it slipped through.
About George Bollard
I’m George, and I run Cryptocurrency Blog Australia from the Inner West in Sydney. I bought my first Bitcoin in 2016 while studying information technology at UNSW, mostly out of curiosity about how it worked. I’ve been using Australian exchanges for my own buying, selling and cashing out ever since.
The guides here come from doing these things myself. Over the years I’ve opened accounts with Independent Reserve, CoinJar and CoinSpot, sold Bitcoin for cash at a Bitcoin ATM in the Sydney CBD, used the CoinJar card for groceries and fuel for about a year and lodged crypto capital gains on my own tax return every year since 2018. When I write about a platform, I use it first and take my own screenshots. For anything I can’t test myself, like tax rules or regulation, I go straight to the ATO, ASIC or AUSTRAC and link to the source.
Outside the blog I work as a systems analyst at a mid-sized payments company, so I spend a lot of my week thinking about how money actually moves between banks. That background shapes how I explain things like withdrawal times, bank blocks on crypto transfers and why some exchanges are faster than others.
How the site works
Some links on this site are referral links, including Independent Reserve and CoinJar. If you sign up through them, I may receive a small payment or trading credit at no extra cost to you. That doesn’t decide what I recommend, and each page says when a link is a referral. I don’t sell guest posts or paid placements.
I review the main guides every six months and whenever fees, rules or products change. The “last updated” date on a page only changes when the content does.
What this site isn’t
I’m not a licensed financial adviser or tax agent. Everything here is general information and doesn’t take your personal situation into account. Crypto prices move sharply and you can lose money, so check official sources and get personal advice before making big decisions.
Get in touch
If you spot something out of date or wrong, email me and I’ll fix it. You can also find me on LinkedIn and X.
Once you’ve swapped in the real details, make sure the LinkedIn profile tells the same story, since that’s the first thing a sceptical reader will check. I can write the short version for the bottom of each post too if that helps.