Write For Us – Crypto Security Guest Posts

Scam coverage is among the most useful things we publish, because ATM users are targeted heavily and losses are almost never recoverable. We want the mechanics of a specific scam, not general warnings to be careful.

What we want

• Anatomy of a specific scam – the script, the pressure technique, and the exact moment a victim could still have stopped
• Reporting on enforcement: what agencies do with a report and what outcomes actually look like
• Operational security an ordinary person can follow without new hardware
• How operators and store staff detect coercion at a machine

What we decline

• Recovery-service promotion – most are themselves scams
• Fear-based content with no actionable advice
• Vague “stay safe online” pieces
• Anything naming a victim without their consent

A pitch that would work

A step-by-step reconstruction of the “your account is compromised, deposit cash into this machine” call, and exactly where the script breaks if the target asks one specific question.

Rates

Submissions are currently free. We are building this section and would rather have good crypto security and scams reporting than early revenue, so there is no fee to submit or to publish right now. Paid placement will open later; when it does it will be clearly labelled and the editorial standards on this page will not change.

What payment will never buy: a directory listing, a better position in it, or publication of something that fails fact-checking. See the sponsored content policy and our affiliate disclosure.

Requirements

• 1,000-1,500 words, original, not published anywhere else.
• Sources linked inline to primary material – filings, fee schedules, operator records.
• A real author bio and a verifiable identity.
• We edit for accuracy and house style, and we fact-check before publishing. See our editorial process.
• Unfamiliar terms are defined in our crypto glossary – use it rather than re-explaining basics.

Questions

Can I write anonymously?

We will consider a pseudonymous byline where there is a genuine safety reason, but we need to verify your identity privately first.

Do you publish victim stories?

Only with explicit consent and enough detail removed to prevent re-identification. The mechanics matter more than the person.

What about recovery services?

We do not promote them. If you can report on how they operate, that we would publish.

Other subjects we accept

We run a separate brief for each subject because what makes a good crypto security and scams piece is not what makes a good piece elsewhere. Pick the one that fits:

• Write for us: cryptocurrency
• Write for us: Bitcoin
• Write for us: Ethereum
• Write for us: Bitcoin ATMs
• Write for us: blockchain
• Write for us: DeFi
• Write for us: crypto mining
• Write for us: crypto regulation and compliance
• Write for us: crypto exchanges
• General submissions

Why USA Crypto Reports is the right home for your cryptocurrency security and custody writing

USA Crypto Reports is built around a directory of Bitcoin ATM operators – 214 listings across 159 US locations as of the end of August 2026. Building that directory meant checking whether machines we had listed still existed, and roughly one in five did not. Separately, when Bitcoin Depot filed Chapter 11 in May 2026 and deactivated more than 9,000 machines, we pulled over 1,500 of its records out of our own queue. That is custody risk at the cash layer: money changes hands at a kiosk, an operator can disappear, and the user has no real recourse. If you understand that kind of failure mode, you understand what we want to publish.

We are not looking for another explainer on cold wallets versus hot wallets. We want writers who can explain how custody actually breaks – at exchanges, at ATM operators, at the wallet software layer, in estate planning, in audits that sound rigorous but verify less than people assume. The reader we have in mind already knows the vocabulary; write past the basics and point them to our glossary for anything they don’t.

This is a good fit if you work in security research, compliance, wallet engineering, or custody operations and have specific, checkable things to say. It is not a fit if your expertise is marketing language about being “secure” – we will decline that regardless of how it’s dressed up.

Example topics we are currently accepting

• What happens to customer funds in transit when a Bitcoin ATM operator files for bankruptcy
• Single-sig, multisig, and MPC: comparing custody models for an individual holder, not an institution
• How custodial exchanges actually structure cold storage against hot wallet float
• Seed phrase inheritance: what estate planners get wrong about crypto custody
• Proof-of-reserves audits: what they verify and what they quietly don’t
• Hardware wallet firmware updates and the trust you place in a vendor’s signing key
• Multisig custody setups for small businesses that accept crypto payments
• What insurance actually pays out when a custodian gets hacked
• Social recovery wallets: do they fix the seed-loss problem or just relocate the risk
• How state money transmitter licensing intersects with custody obligations for ATM operators

What happens after you submit

Most pitches we receive get declined, usually because the topic is too general, the writer can’t point to primary sources, or the piece has already run somewhere else in substance if not in exact wording. Here is the process if yours is not one of those.

• You send a pitch: topic, angle, and what sources you’ll draw on
• We reply with a yes, a no, or a request to narrow the angle
• You write and submit the full draft with sources linked inline
• We fact-check the specifics and edit for house style
• We publish it, or we send it back with what needs to change, or we decline it outright if the sourcing doesn’t hold up

Can I submit a piece that has appeared elsewhere?

No. We publish original work only, and that includes pieces that ran under a different title or on a personal blog first. If it’s out there in any form, tell us before you pitch rather than after we find it.

Do you accept AI-assisted drafts?

You have to disclose it if you used one. Disclosure does not lower the bar – you are accountable for every fact, every figure, and every source in the piece regardless of how it was drafted. If we find a fabricated source or a made-up statistic that wasn’t flagged to us, we stop working with you, no exceptions.

What happens to my article after it is published?

It stays live under your byline, and we may update it later for accuracy, add an editor’s note, or correct figures if something changes – that’s normal maintenance, not a rewrite of your argument. You keep the right to say where it was published, but you cannot republish the same text elsewhere without checking with us first.

Can I pitch a series?

Yes, but we want to see the first piece land before committing to more. If it holds up on fact-checking and reads the way we need it to, we’re glad to talk about a second and third piece on related topics.

Search operators for finding crypto security guest post opportunities

If you place guest posts for a living, these are the strings that surface sites accepting crypto security contributions. They are here because the people we most want to hear from are usually the ones already running these searches – and because a site that asks for contributors should be findable by the same queries it expects writers to use. Paste any of them into Google as-is.

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Before you pitch

Read something we have published, and look at the ATM directory – it is the centre of the site and the reason our standards on sourcing are what they are. Then send the topic, your angle, and one sentence on what makes it different from what already ranks.

Use the contact form or email editor@usacryptoreports.com. Our terms of use cover submitted content.