# The Coin Workbook > Do it once, with the steps written down The Coin Workbook covers onramp, offramp, swap, corporate wallet, custody, acquiring, stablecoin payments, bitcoin payments, otc, licensing, cards, industries, exchange and nothing else. Every article is written by Gabriel Mas. Writes the step-by-step version of the things most guides skip over. The intended reader is readers who want to do the thing, not read about it. No price predictions, no investment advice and no paid placements: articles explain how something works so the reader can decide for themselves. Where a number matters, the article states where it came from and when it was measured. 20 articles, published 2026-07-18 to 2026-10-22. Every article is also served as plain Markdown: replace the trailing slash with `.md` — https://thecoinworkbook.com/closing-an-exchange-account.md ## Exchange - [Closing an Exchange Account Without Leaving Dust Behind](https://thecoinworkbook.com/closing-an-exchange-account/): Six steps to leave a venue properly, including the small balances that cannot be withdrawn economically. - [Setting Up Two-Factor Authentication That Survives a Lost Phone](https://thecoinworkbook.com/two-factor-that-survives-a-lost-phone/): Most people set up two-factor in a way that locks them out when the phone breaks. Six steps that do not. ## Custody - [Writing a Handover Note So Someone Else Can Find the Funds](https://thecoinworkbook.com/writing-a-handover-note/): Nine lines that let another person recover a position without you. The document that most holders never write. - [Auditing Which Apps Still Have Access to Your Accounts](https://thecoinworkbook.com/auditing-app-access/): Permissions granted once stay granted. A quarterly review takes ten minutes and closes doors nobody remembers opening. - [Doing a Practice Recovery Before You Need a Real One](https://thecoinworkbook.com/practice-recovery/): A rehearsal that takes thirty minutes and converts a backup from an assumption into a verified fact. - [Splitting a Recovery Phrase Across Two Locations Safely](https://thecoinworkbook.com/splitting-a-recovery-phrase/): Naive splitting makes a phrase easier to break, not harder. Three approaches that work and one that does not. - [Turning On Withdrawal Allowlists and What They Block](https://thecoinworkbook.com/withdrawal-allowlists/): An allowlist restricts withdrawals to addresses you approved in advance. Five steps to set one up and what it does not cover. - [Verifying a Wallet Download Signature in Four Steps](https://thecoinworkbook.com/verifying-a-wallet-download/): How to check that the wallet software you downloaded is the software the developers published. - [Recovering a Wallet on a New Device, Correctly](https://thecoinworkbook.com/recovering-a-wallet/): Six steps to restore access, and the three mistakes that turn a recovery into a loss. - [Checking an Address Before You Press Send](https://thecoinworkbook.com/checking-an-address-before-sending/): Four checks, thirty seconds, and the end of the single most expensive mistake in crypto. - [Setting Up a Hardware Wallet Without Losing the Recovery Phrase](https://thecoinworkbook.com/setting-up-a-hardware-wallet/): The device is the easy part. These eight steps are about the twenty four words, which is where people actually lose money. ## Licensing - [Preparing the Documents an Exchange Will Ask For](https://thecoinworkbook.com/preparing-exchange-documents/): A checklist to assemble before opening an account, so verification is one sitting rather than five rounds. ## Acquiring - [Receiving Your First Payment From a Client, End to End](https://thecoinworkbook.com/receiving-your-first-client-payment/): Seven steps from agreeing the invoice to money in the bank, with the two conversations that have to happen first. - [Reading a Block Explorer to Confirm a Payment Arrived](https://thecoinworkbook.com/reading-a-block-explorer/): Five fields on an explorer page tell you whether a payment is done, pending or never going to arrive. ## Corporate wallet - [Labelling Addresses So Your Records Make Sense Later](https://thecoinworkbook.com/labelling-addresses/): A five minute convention that turns an unreadable transaction history into something you can reconcile in a year. - [Exporting a Full Transaction History for Your Accountant](https://thecoinworkbook.com/exporting-transaction-history/): Five steps to produce a record that an accountant can work from, and the four fields that must be in it. ## Offramp - [Converting a Payment to Fiat the Same Day It Arrives](https://thecoinworkbook.com/converting-a-payment-same-day/): Six steps from an incoming crypto payment to money in a bank account, and where the delays actually sit. - [Moving Funds Off an Exchange, Step by Step](https://thecoinworkbook.com/moving-funds-off-an-exchange/): Seven steps from an exchange balance to a wallet you control, with the two irreversible moments marked. - [Sending a Test Transaction Before the Real One](https://thecoinworkbook.com/sending-a-test-transaction/): Six steps that cost one network fee and remove the most expensive mistake available in this subject. ## Swap - [Replacing a Stuck Transaction Instead of Waiting](https://thecoinworkbook.com/replacing-a-stuck-transaction/): A transaction sitting unconfirmed can often be replaced or accelerated. Four steps, and the cases where neither works. ## About this site - [About](https://thecoinworkbook.com/about/): what the site covers, who writes it and how articles are checked. - [Author](https://thecoinworkbook.com/author/): Gabriel Mas. Writes the step-by-step version of the things most guides skip over. - [Contact](https://thecoinworkbook.com/contact/): corrections and questions. - [Privacy](https://thecoinworkbook.com/privacy/): what the site does and does not collect. ## Machine-readable - [https://thecoinworkbook.com/llms-full.txt](https://thecoinworkbook.com/llms-full.txt): full text of every article in one file. - [https://thecoinworkbook.com/sitemap-index.xml](https://thecoinworkbook.com/sitemap-index.xml): every indexable URL. - [https://thecoinworkbook.com/rss.xml](https://thecoinworkbook.com/rss.xml): feed of new articles.