# Tenge & Coin > Crypto and tenge, from Almaty Tenge & Coin covers onramp, offramp, tenge conversion, local banking, exchange, otc, stablecoin payments, cards, compliance, custody and nothing else. Every article is written by Aidana Serikova. Writes from Almaty about buying and selling crypto with tenge. The intended reader is people in Kazakhstan converting between tenge and crypto. 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 2026-09-01 to 2026-10-29. Every article is also served as plain Markdown: replace the trailing slash with `.md` — https://tengeandcoin.com/common-scams-aimed-at-buyers.md ## Compliance - [Common Scams Aimed at Kazakhstani Crypto Buyers](https://tengeandcoin.com/common-scams-aimed-at-buyers/): Five patterns that appear locally, how each one opens, and the single question that ends all of them. - [Transfers to and From Russia: Why They Get Extra Scrutiny](https://tengeandcoin.com/transfers-and-extra-scrutiny/): Cross-border payments in this direction attract review from banks and venues alike. What the checks look for and what satisfies them. - [Keeping Records a Kazakhstani Accountant Will Accept](https://tengeandcoin.com/records-an-accountant-will-accept/): Six fields per transaction, one monthly export, and the three things accountants ask for that nobody has. - [Taxes on Crypto Gains in Kazakhstan, in Plain Terms](https://tengeandcoin.com/taxes-on-crypto-gains/): What the question actually depends on, what records you need regardless, and where to get an answer that binds. - [Exchange Registration From Kazakhstan: What Verification Expects](https://tengeandcoin.com/exchange-registration-from-kazakhstan/): Which documents pass, which fail, and the three mismatches that send an application to manual review. - [Documents a Kazakhstani Bank Asks About a Crypto Payment](https://tengeandcoin.com/documents-a-bank-asks/): Four documents cover almost every question a bank will raise, and having them ready turns a review into a formality. ## Industries - [Rural Access: Crypto When the Nearest Branch Is Far](https://tengeandcoin.com/rural-access/): Away from the cities the constraints change: connectivity, cash, and a bank relationship that is harder to replace. ## Tenge conversion - [Why the Rate You See Is Not the Rate You Get](https://tengeandcoin.com/why-the-rate-you-see/): Four things sit between a displayed price and the amount that lands in your account. Each one is measurable. - [The Tenge Spread: Measuring What Conversion Really Costs](https://tengeandcoin.com/the-tenge-spread/): A method for finding the margin between the rate you are shown and the rate the market is using, in tenge. ## Acquiring - [A Small Business Accepting Crypto in Kazakhstan: Setup Costs](https://tengeandcoin.com/small-business-accepting-crypto/): What it actually takes to accept crypto payments here, itemised, including the costs that are time rather than money. ## Local banking - [Mobile Banking Apps and Crypto: What Works in Practice](https://tengeandcoin.com/mobile-banking-and-crypto/): The app is not the obstacle. What decides whether a payment goes through is the rule behind it, and that varies by bank. - [Working Hours That Decide When Your Transfer Settles](https://tengeandcoin.com/working-hours-and-settlement/): Crypto runs continuously and the money leg does not. Four clocks determine whether a transfer lands today. - [Kazakhstani Banks and Crypto Transfers: What Goes Through](https://tengeandcoin.com/banks-and-crypto-transfers/): Whether a payment reaches an exchange depends more on your bank than on the exchange. What causes a block and what resolves it. ## Onramp - [Getting Paid in Crypto by a Foreign Client, From Almaty](https://tengeandcoin.com/getting-paid-by-a-foreign-client/): Seven steps from agreeing terms to tenge in your account, and the two conversations that have to happen first. - [Buying Crypto With Tenge: Which Route Costs Least](https://tengeandcoin.com/buying-crypto-with-tenge/): Card, local transfer and P2P each carry a different cost in tenge. A comparison of what each one takes before anything arrives. ## Stablecoin payments - [Which Stablecoin Works Best for Tenge Conversion](https://tengeandcoin.com/which-stablecoin-for-tenge/): The choice is decided by what your venue converts directly and what the transfer costs, not by which token is better. ## Offramp - [Cashing Out a Large Amount: Limits and Timing](https://tengeandcoin.com/cashing-out-a-large-amount/): Four limits apply to a large sale and they are not the same limit. How to find each one before you start. - [Selling Crypto for Tenge Without the Transfer Being Frozen](https://tengeandcoin.com/selling-crypto-for-tenge/): The sale is simple. The incoming payment to your bank is where attention lands. Five things that keep it uneventful. ## Cards - [Card Payments to Exchanges From a Local Bank](https://tengeandcoin.com/card-payments-to-exchanges/): What your card issuer does with a crypto purchase, why it sometimes declines, and what the extra charges are. ## Otc - [P2P in Kazakhstan: What It Saves and What It Risks](https://tengeandcoin.com/p2p-in-kazakhstan/): Peer trading gives the best rate in tenge and carries risks that do not appear in the rate. Both sides, measured. ## About this site - [About](https://tengeandcoin.com/about/): what the site covers, who writes it and how articles are checked. - [Author](https://tengeandcoin.com/author/): Aidana Serikova. Writes from Almaty about buying and selling crypto with tenge. - [Contact](https://tengeandcoin.com/contact/): corrections and questions. - [Privacy](https://tengeandcoin.com/privacy/): what the site does and does not collect. ## Machine-readable - [https://tengeandcoin.com/llms-full.txt](https://tengeandcoin.com/llms-full.txt): full text of every article in one file. - [https://tengeandcoin.com/sitemap-index.xml](https://tengeandcoin.com/sitemap-index.xml): every indexable URL. - [https://tengeandcoin.com/rss.xml](https://tengeandcoin.com/rss.xml): feed of new articles.