Your first article can be live in five steps. Publishing is free, and you do not need any BSV to start.
1. Create a free account
Use Create New Account in the menu, or log in if you already have one. You must be 18 or older and legally able to enter into agreements.
2. Decide how this article earns
- Free, with tips. Anyone can read it. Readers who want to can send you BSV directly. BSVSearch takes nothing from tips. This is the simplest way to begin.
- Priced. You set a price in satoshis and how long a purchase gives access, from 24 hours to one year. BSVSearch's fee is 10% of the price, or 1,000 satoshis if that is larger, and it comes out of the price.
You can publish some articles free and others priced.
3. Have a BSV address ready
- For tips: a BSV address that begins with 1, used only for this article. You enter it on the article form, in "BSV Tipping Address". Paymail handles are not accepted.
- For a priced article: add a BSV address to your profile under "BSV addresses", with the purpose "Payments for my articles". The price box on the article form stays greyed out until this is saved.
- No address at all is needed for a free article without tips.
No address yet? If you do not have a favourite tool of your own, you can create a BSV address with Sovereign Keys, a free tool from BSVSearch that runs in your browser. The key is created on your own device. Save the private key somewhere safe before you use the address: whoever holds it controls the funds, and nobody, BSVSearch included, can recover it for you.
Payments go straight from the reader's wallet to your address. BSVSearch never holds your money or your keys, so check the address carefully: the site cannot verify that it is yours.
4. Write and submit
Open Publish your work.
- Give it a title, a Type and up to five tags.
- Write in the body. You can add images there (up to 5 MB each).
- A cover image is optional. It is public and appears above the title, in listings and when the article is shared.
- Choose whether your work may be used to train AI. This is off unless you turn it on.
- Any subject is welcome, and you may write in your own language.
The first time you submit, you are asked to accept the Creator Terms.
5. Review
Every article gets a quick check by a person before it appears, to keep spam out. It is not a judgement of your writing. We endeavour to review most articles within 24 hours and all within 48 hours. If something needs changing, you receive an email with the reviewer's note and a link to your article. Make the changes, set "Change to" to "Admin to Review" and press Save, and it is read again. Once cleared, the article is live under Creations and you receive an email.
After your first article
- Group articles into a collection, such as a series, a magazine or a book, and offer it free or by subscription.
- Offer a reuse licence so that others can use a piece in a project of their own.
- See what you have sold under "Your sales" on your account.
Questions
The Creations FAQs answer most things, under "Selling your work" and "Tips". You can also ask on the forum or email admin@bsvsearch.com.