Writing

The record was in the footer

9 November 2026 · figures measured 9 November 2026

The question this morning was whether to put the measurements on their own domain. The aggregator this site has been reading runs two satellite sites that exist only to be linked to, and the logic is sound: a link to your own commercial site posted in a forum thread reads as advertising and gets removed, while a link to a reference site that happens to be yours gets posted by other people.

Before answering it, one cheaper question. Is the record linked from our own front page?

It was not

The header of every page here carried three links — Exchange, MoneroRoute, LightningSwap — and that was the whole of it. Everything else was markedfooterOnlyin the navigation file, which is a flag with a good reason behind it: the bar had overflowed twice and printed through the wallet chip, and reading material was the half that lost.

The reasoning was right about the bar and wrong about what had been put behind the flag.

In the headerIn the footer only
ExchangeProvider standings — 5,371 fan-outs
MoneroRoutePrice sources — 4 clusters
LightningSwapCounterparty terms — quoted and dated
Pair records, coins, network names
The dataset, the endpoints, the writing

The left column is what a visitor can do. The right column is the only reason to believe the left column. One of them was four scrolls down on every page of the site.

Why the satellite was the wrong answer

The two satellites that prompted this work because of what they contain. One is 87 documented cases of people traced or prosecuted for using a transparent chain, each sourced to a court record or a government announcement. That is a collection — its value does not depend on who assembled it, and it would be the same document on anybody’s domain.

What is kept here is not a collection. It is a measurement this site takes by running: every time somebody prices a transfer, every provider is asked the same question at the same moment, and the answers are kept. Detach that from the product and you have a page of numbers whose provenance is now a claim rather than a mechanism. The product is the methodology section.

So: no second domain. A fourth link instead, and a page behind it that enumerates everything with its live count — the records. Measured, reference, explained, and the record kept about the build itself.

What this does not change

Nothing about the data. Not one figure moved, no measurement improved, and a navigation change is the easiest kind of work in the world to mistake for progress. It is worth being exact about what was actually wrong: the information was published, free, keyless and correct, and it was published the way a notice is published by being pinned inside a cupboard.

There is one thing the new page says that no individual page did, because it only becomes visible when the set is laid out together. Every figure in it is a quote. Not one of them is an arrival. A provider that quotes generously and settles short would sit high in all of these tables and deserve to sit nowhere near the top, and this site has never measured the difference. That sentence now sits at the bottom of the index rather than in a paragraph on one page that most readers of the other pages will never open.

Plan an exchange

Every figure above can be checked against the providers yourself — no account, no sign-up, and nothing is held for you at any point.