Custodial accounts.
Permissions, not promises.
What this is
Night Study is about the security of a crypto exchange account: which settings decide what an attacker can do, how people are approached in the first place, and what the response looks like once something has gone wrong. That is the whole remit, and keeping it narrow is deliberate.
How a guide gets written
Each guide starts from a specific problem a reader is in — a phone that has been replaced, an email that looks wrong, an account that has been restricted. The guide has to answer that, in the first two paragraphs, before it explains anything.
Where a claim depends on how a platform behaves, we open that platform's own documentation and note the date. Those pages are listed on the sources page, with what each one was used for.
Where there is no source we would stand behind, the guide says so. Several pieces here contain no statistics at all for that reason, and each one explains why in the note at the end.
Security settings get renamed, moved and redesigned. When a documented detail here stops matching the platform, the guide is corrected in place rather than patched with a caveat.
Who writes it
The byline on these guides is a pen name for the person maintaining the site. Writing publicly about how accounts get taken, under a real name attached to a real crypto holder, is an obvious way to become a target. The name is consistent so that you can see one voice is behind the whole file.
There is no certification, no firm, no years-of-experience number on this site, because we are not going to assert things you cannot check. Judge the guides on whether they are specific, whether they cite what they can, and whether they admit what they do not know.
If something here is wrong — a setting that has moved, a rule that has changed, a claim that does not hold — write to wuxrin@wuxrin.com. Corrections are made in the text rather than appended as a note at the bottom.
Independence
One page on this site carries a referral link to an exchange. That is the entire commercial model: the page that carries the link says so beside it, and the disclosure page sets it out in full. No exchange has any involvement in what is written here, and no guide would read differently if the arrangement ended tomorrow.