About the desk
About JamaicaCrypto
An independent research desk covering one narrow subject properly: how people in Jamaica actually buy, sell, hold and cash out digital assets, what it costs them, and what the rules are.
Why this site exists
Search for how to buy crypto in Jamaica and most of what comes back was written for somebody in Ohio. It assumes instant bank links, a dense crypto ATM network, and a licensed local broker you can complain to. None of those exist here. The result is a market where genuinely high demand meets advice that quietly does not apply.
We started this desk to close that gap with one rule: describe what actually works in Jamaica, price it honestly, and say plainly when the answer is that something does not exist. That is why our Bitcoin ATM page leads with zero rather than a list of alternatives, and why our fee pages include the bank conversion margin that never appears on an exchange's own fee schedule.
What we cover
Four things, and deliberately nothing else. Access — which exchanges will onboard a Jamaican resident and accept a card from NCB, Scotiabank, JN Bank or Sagicor. True cost — what a purchase or a sale really costs end to end, including currency conversion and wire fees. Rules — what the Bank of Jamaica, the Financial Services Commission, the Financial Investigations Division and Tax Administration Jamaica actually say, with links to their own publications. And place — fourteen local guides, because the right route in Morant Bay is not the right route in New Kingston.
We do not publish price predictions, trading signals, token recommendations or anything resembling portfolio advice. Not because they would not attract traffic, but because we are not licensed to give them and nobody should take them from a website.
How the site is funded
Some links on this site are commercial partnerships. When a reader opens an account through one of them, we may receive a fee at no cost to the reader. That is how the research gets paid for, and we would rather say so on every page than bury it.
What that funding does not do is decide our rankings. Our scoring model, its weightings and the tests we run are published in full on how we review. No operator has paid for placement, no ranking has been changed for a commercial partner, and the reasons a platform ranks where it does are written on the page for anyone to disagree with.
We also publish the negatives about the platforms we rank highest. If you read our top-ranked review and do not find a "what to watch" section listing real drawbacks, something has gone wrong and you should tell us.
Editorial rules we hold ourselves to
- Say when we do not know. Where we could not verify something — the current fiat permissions on a particular platform for Jamaican accounts, for instance — we say so rather than guessing.
- Link the primary source. Regulatory claims link to the regulator's own page, not to another article about it.
- Date the figures. Fees and availability change. Every table says when we checked.
- Never invent an author. This is a desk, not a cast of fictional analysts. Where we give an opinion it is labelled as ours and marked as a judgement.
- No fabricated data. Where a number comes from a third-party tracker rather than an official statistic, we attribute it as such.
- Correct things properly. If we get something wrong, we fix it and note the change rather than quietly editing.
What we are not
Not a broker, exchange, dealer, custodian or money services business. We never hold, touch or route customer funds, and we cannot buy or sell anything on your behalf. If someone contacts you claiming to trade on behalf of this site, they are not us.
Not licensed or supervised by anybody. We are an information publisher. The Bank of Jamaica does not regulate us, the Financial Services Commission does not regulate us, and nothing we publish is financial, investment, legal or tax advice.
Not a substitute for a professional. For anything involving a large sum, a tax question or your own circumstances, speak to a licensed adviser or accountant in Jamaica. Our tax page sets out what to ask them.
Contact and corrections
One address, read by the people who write the pages: contact@jamaica-crypto.com.
Corrections are genuinely welcome and get priority. If a fee has changed, a branch has closed, a platform has restricted Jamaican accounts, or something on this site is simply wrong, tell us and include a source if you have one. If you work for an operator we cover and disagree with an assessment, write to the same address — we will read it and we will not change a ranking without a reason we can publish.
What we cannot do: recover lost or stolen crypto, intervene in a dispute with an exchange, advise on whether to buy anything, or manage money. For fraud, our scams page lists the FSC, FID and police reporting routes.