FAQs

Yes, here is a video that covers most of what is covered in this FAQ section: ' 👉 How to use BSVSearch.com to live, work and earn true Bitcoins anywhere, anytime

BSV Search is a website for people to find others with whom to transact in BSVs, the tokens managed by the original Bitcoin Protocol restored and implemented on Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV).

• Businesses can create a page for their business. From restaurants and hotels to creative people in film and music as well as traditional services like accounting and law advice. 
• People and businesses can also offer real estate properties for sale or rent.
• BSV Search is a place where you can sell all types of new or used vehicles from cars, vans or trucks to boats, yachts and canoes, inluding light vehicles like bikes and scooters. 
• It is a place where you can sell new or used household items like furniture, clothing, appliances and gardening tools. 
• Artists, Sculptors, photographers and other creative people can also promote their works under the Creative Works section, and link the BSV search page to their website.
• Writers and authors can promote their books and ebooks in the Publications section, and link the BSV search page to a website where people can purchase their works.
• Freelancers can offer their services and those looking for the freelance services can advertise their need.

You create a page providing the information of your offer, provide your details so people can contact you. If you are selling your publications or creative works, you link your BSV page to a page on your website, or blog, where people can purchase the specific product you are promoting. You organise and manage your transactions directly with the buyer, the seller, or service provider. You are in full control. 

BSVSearch.com also contributes in educating people about the true Bitcoin (BSV, not BTC), exploring all its features and benefits as well as the different tools, products, software and apps in its eco-system. 

BSV Search empowers you to use the power of the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision — the coin, the network and the protocol — to live, work and earn a living in an ever-modernising world. 

More recently, BSV Search has added two ways to bring your work directly onto the blockchain. The Ordinals directory lets you register on-chain creations — images, music, video, text and more — so others can view, tip, buy or license them. Web3 Sites go a step further: complete websites whose pages are inscribed on-chain and browsed right here under a short address such as bsvsearch.com/earthlog.web3. Both have their own sections further down this page.

Posting is free. Go ahead and post as much as you want.  Registering an Ordinal that you have already inscribed elsewhere is free on BSV Search too.

The one exception is Creations, where submitting a work for sale carries a submission review fee, and verifying the address you get paid to carries a one-off fee too.

You need to Create An Account. 
After creating an account, you can make a submission to add your business, sell an item or offer it for rent by clicking here.  To add an on-chain creation to the Ordinals directory, use "Register an Ordinal" in the Ordinals section; Web3 Sites are curated by BSV Search for now, with self-service publishing coming later.

Before submissions are cleared for publication, we quickly run through the submission for apparent things like offensive or pornographic text and images and other indications that a submission is from a bot or a spammer. This means so long as you are making an honest effort to submit legitimate material, you can expect your submissions to be cleared for publication.  

When you are viewing the profile of a user, click on Submissions to look at all the submissions they currently have.

When you click that, you will see a list of the Submissions from the user. 

When viewing a user profile, you see a link to their activities:

By clicking here, you get to see their recent activities to see if they have made updates to one of their posts that you might have interest in or to see what comments they have been making on the website. Online, these little details can help us know people a little bit more and helps us decide whether they are the type of people we want to deal with. We want BSV Search to be a website that gives people positive experiences, and we want to encourage participants to be civil, friendly and helpful and help them do more business.  

At the bottom of each submission is a Post Details section. This is where extra information about a post can be seen like Last Modified date and the Post Date.

This section is where you can search for a restaurant, an accountant, a plumber or any other business in your local area who are happy to accept BSV in search of their products or services. You can also search for organisations that are non-business entities, such as communities, websites, and forums that support BSV.  

We are continually filling up our directory to ensure that people all over the world can find what they are looking for. If you have a business and you want to take advantage of the BSV payment system and attract business from BSV fans and supporters, we invite you to list your business here, without waiting for us to add it for you, because we are a small team and we are likely going to miss many business and organisations. 

We encourage ALL businesses: from restaurants, hotels, hamburger places and pizzerias to services like those who provide trades services like electricians and builders. Professional services like development in blockchain, the web and the internet are encouraged, including traditional services like accountancy, law, bookkeeping, notary services, etc.

Organisations that are necessarily set up as a business (for-profit) entity. Community initiatives and other non-profits can and should list their organisations here.  

To confirm who submitted the listing, you can check its Contact tab and if it indicates BSVSearch, please reach out to us, so we can assign ownership and responsibility of that page to you. You will need to create an account first, and we will need to verify that the email address of the account is an email address in the domain name of the entity. 

Requests to have listings deleted for an organisation needs to be made from an email in the same domain name as the entity to ensure that the person requesting its deletion is representing the company. 

This section is where you can post an offer to sell any of the following vehicles:

• Cars, vans, trucks and motorcycles  
• Bikes, eBikes, scooters and hoverboards
• Boats, yachts, canoes and kayaks
• Campervans and motorhomes  
• Hang Gliders, balloons,  jetpacks   and snowmobiles
• Other vehicles

In this section, you can offer any of your properties for sale or rent - whether it is Residential, Commercial, Industrial or Land. 

All property types are welcome, including: 

• Apartment
• Bungalow
• Cabin
• Cape Cod
• Colonial
• Condos
• Container Home
• Co-op
• Cottage
• Craftsman
• Duplex
• Farmhouse
• Flat
• Houseboat
• Mansion
• Manufactured Home
• Mediterranean
• Mid-Century Modern Style
• Mobile Home
• Ranch
• Semi-detached house
• Single-Family home
• Split Level
• Stand-alone house
• Studio
• Terraced House
• Tiny House
• Townhome
• Townhouse
• Tudor
• Unit
• Victorian

If you have items, you no longer use that could be useful for other people, why keep them in your house, taking up precious space? Sell them here in exchange for BSV tokens instead. 

What sort of items can you offer to sell here?

So long as it is legal to sell in your country, you may offer to sell them here. Most things found in households are ideal for listing here: including clothing, furniture, books, appliances and gadgets. 

In this section, you can promote any event your business, employer, local government, or you organised. It could be a corporate event, a government event or a street party! 

Creative Works is for creative people like painters, illustrators, photographers, sculptors, designers and those skilled in crafts to offer their works for sale. 

Publications is where authors and writers can sell their own books, or ebooks.

The Ordinals directory is where you register your own on-chain creations — images, music, video, interactive pages, text and more — so others can discover them and tip, buy or license them in BSV. See the dedicated Ordinals section further down for the details.

Web3 Sites are complete websites whose pages are permanently inscribed on the BSV blockchain and browsed here under a short address such as bsvsearch.com/earthlog.web3. See the dedicated Web3 Sites section further down for the details.

1. At the end of drafting your submission on any of the submission pages here, you choose Save As: 'Admin to Review' to send your submission for one of the site administrators to check. 

2. After your submission is checked, the site administrator could label it as 'Author to Update' to send it back to you for further edits or Clear for publication.

A submission could be placed under 'Author to Update' status for reasons like a post containing images with nudity, anything disturbing or offensive, and other such issues. 

The reason will be specified on your Submitted Content page (My Account>Submissions). 

3. If your submission is Cleared for publication, it will be published on the website. 

• Provide a good description, information about the subject of your post because they are used by the website to search for submissions relevant to what a website user is looking for. Use words specific to that product, item or industry: words that you think people will use to search and find your page. 

When you finished drafting a submission, and send it to Admin to Review, and change your mind, and you, as an Author wants to continue to working on the document, you can take it back to Author to Update status when you see this Moderation Control box that looks like this:

 Log Message, a field where you can provide extra information to the administrators of the site, for things that you think would be important. 

You can set your submission back to Admin to Review when you are ready. 

When you go to My Account > Submissions, you might see something like this:

In the above example, we see that the admin has placed a note saying that the post has offensive images, and this is why the submission is still under Author to Update status, and it is not Published (x) yet. This means that the Author needs to open the document again and correct for whatever issues were mentioned on the page above. Once these issues had been corrected for, the Author should change the Moderation State back to Admin to Review.

We endeavour to review all submissions within 24-48 hours. 

Yes you still can. You can access your submitted content in My Account > Submissions. From there, you can click to edit your submissions. 

Submitted contents approved for publication can be verified in two ways:

1) You can see it on the website listed under the appropriate section.

2) Go to My Account > Submissions, and look out for Cleared (meaning Cleared for Publication) and confirmed that the document is Published (a check mark).  

BSV Search provides a website where offers are made to sell or buy but it is important for website users and visitors to know the following:

• We do not verify, certify or claim to know any of the participants here. This is why we encourage people to visit the website provided about each post or have a conversation with the person making the offer to find out what you can before deciding to transact with them.  
• We do not facilitate the transaction or payments between participants here. It is up to you to make arrangement with each of the individuals with whom you do business. 

People would likely be more comfortable dealing with people they know a little about. Make the most of the space provided for you to write as much information as possible to others considering doing business with you.  It is up to you to decide how much information you wish to provide but if you have a website, an email address or a phone number , consider if you should share them to make it easier for other users to contact you. 

The concept is, if it is illegal for you to sell, or offer for rent or otherwise, then please do not post it on BSV Search. Obvious items include illegal drugs, weapons and all those things not considered savoury by most people, and by the law. If you are not sure, please check the laws that apply to you. 

BSV Search provides offers from people and businesses who submit them to this website. We do not certify or verify who they are. We are not involved in whatever transactions may take place between two people about the items posted here. We encourage people to take basic precautions when dealing with people they do not know, some of which are mentioned below:

• When you need to meet with people to exchange goods and transfer payments, meet with people in a public area or, if possible, near a police station. 
• Before you buy from someone, check out their profile so you know the person making the offer before you decide to transact with them. The scrutiny you apply depends on what they are offering. You might care less if you are buying a box of old books than if you were buying a car or a motorcycle, where the government establishes a process on how such sales are to take place.  
• Transacting in BSV is no different from agreeing to exchange one thing for another (unless under dictatorships and authoritarian regimes explicitly prohibiting the use of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies). You can write contracts and agreements.
• Therefore, when practical - like in cases of sales of expensive items - write an agreement. This agreement should provide details of both parties, including their names and addresses, to evidence that a transaction is taking place. Emails and communications of this are useful in proving details of the intentions of the people transacting. 
• Having a contract/agreement evidenced by signatures, and third parties, including notaries when appropriate, are helpful if one party needs to assert their rights because the other person did not fulfil their side of the bargain. 

If you have questions about a post, you can ask it privately (if you do not want your question and your conversation to be seen by others) or publicly (if you are happy for your question and conversation to be seen by other users of the website).

Option 1: Privately

Within the description of a post, look for the Contact tab and the username of the author of the post. 

Click the name which leads you to the author's user profile:

Click on Contact, fill out the Contact Form and send. 

The message is sent to the author's email address so they can email you back. 

Option 2: Publicly 

This is useful if you think that other users interested in the product might also benefit from knowing the answer to your question and you do not mind sharing the conversation for the rest to see on the website.

To ask your question publicly, expand the Questions and Comments at the bottom of the submission/post. Type your question, choose whether you want to be notified when there's a reply to your comment or any comment made on the same post. 

At the bottom of a Business Page, expand the Business Review section. Fill out the Subject or Title of your Review, give the Business a Rating out of 5 stars, where 5 is the most favourable and 1 is the least favourable. 

Please note that other users and the business you are reviewing may also reply to your review to give them the chance to respond to reviews and feedback they receive. 

At the bottom of a User Profile is a User Feedback/Review form that you can fill out. 

Please note that other users and the business you are reviewing may also reply to your review to give them the chance to respond to reviews and feedback they receive. 

While we are waiting for more people like you to get involved and start using and adopting BSV in your daily lives, work and business, we post sample content for demonstration purposes. Eventually, live content will drown out the sample content after which we will slowly deactivate the sample content. 

To find out whether a listing is a sample or a live content, you can check it under the POST DETAILS section. 

When searching for something on the website, you can filter the search results to only show 'live content' by indicating your preference on the Search from under 'Content Class'. 

• Each content should have its own unique BSV address. Meaning, you should not assign a BSV address to other content.
• Only use content that you created, or that you have a legal right to use, to avoid copyright disputes in the future. 

BSV-tipped content is a creative or informative work that people can support by sending Bitcoin SV (BSV) tips to a public BSV address assigned to that work. Examples include videos, music, articles, illustrations, photographs, performances and other original creations. 

Performing a song in a public forum where you are not asking for tips could be considered a fair use of the song, and you would not need permission from the copyright holder. However, if you perform a famous song online, record it, and publish it online, and ask people to send you tips, you may be infringing on the copyright of the song's owner, which could result in damages, attorney's fees, and even criminal charges.

Here are some specific reasons why your actions could be considered copyright infringement:

• You are creating a derivative work of the song. When you record a cover of a song, you are creating a derivative work of the original song. This is a copyright-protected work, and you need permission from the copyright holder to create a derivative work.
• You are distributing the song without permission. When you post your recording of the song on YouTube, you are distributing the song to a large audience. This is a copyright-protected act, and you need permission from the copyright holder to distribute the song.
• You are asking for tips in exchange for the song. Even if you are not charging for the song directly, you are asking for tips in exchange for it. This could be considered a form of payment, and you may need permission from the copyright holder to accept payment for the song.

To avoid copyright infringement, you could:

• Obtain a license from the copyright holder. This would give you the legal right to perform, record, and distribute the song.
• Create your own original work. This would avoid the need to obtain permission from the copyright holder.

It would be advisable to consult with an attorney to get legal advice on how to use copyrighted material, such as songs.

Your content should already be published and accessible online. Assign it a unique BSV receiving address that you control, and make sure you created the content or have the legal right to publish and monetise it. You can then submit it for inclusion on the BSV-Tipped Content leaderboard.

No. To the contrary, BSV-Tipped Content is designed more for content not published on BSVSearch.com. These could be content from your website, or your Social Media Networks accounts like YouTube, X, and so on.  

A unique address allows BSV Search to associate the tips received at that address with one specific work and display its tipping activity accurately. Do not reuse the same address for several works, because it may become impossible to determine which work a tip was intended to support.

Create a public receiving address using a wallet that supports Bitcoin SV. Make sure you control the wallet and can access funds sent to it. Only provide the public receiving address. Never provide BSV Search or anyone else with your wallet password, private key, recovery phrase or seed phrase.

You can use Bitaddress.Org or Sovereign Keys to generate lots of Public Addresses - and their Private Keys. 

No. You may add your content once it is published online and has its own unique BSV receiving address. Its tipping figures will update as supporters send BSV tips to that address.

BSV Search does not specify a minimum tip. Supporters may send a small number of satoshis or a larger amount of BSV. The amount should be chosen freely by the person supporting the content.

The leaderboard displays tipping activity associated with the unique BSV address assigned to each work. Total satoshis tipped determines the primary ordering, followed by number of times an address has been tipped. 

No. This is why you need to provide a BSV Address to which you have the private keys. People who tip you, tip you directly there using their own wallet. Their tip goes direct from them to you. BSV Search scans the BSV Blockchain to display your BSV tipping wallet's activity. Please note you are responsible for safe-keeping your privatey keys. 

Yes. BSV Search currently allows users to create accounts and make submissions free of charge.

Yes. You need to create an account and log in before making a submission. Your account also allows you to review and update your submitted content.

Provide the title of the work, the creator or performer's name, a clear description, the type of content, a working link to the published work, and the unique public BSV receiving address assigned to it. Include a suitable image or thumbnail where applicable, and check every link and address carefully before submitting.

Submissions may be reviewed before publication. BSV Search aims to review submissions within 24 to 48 hours. An administrator may publish the submission or return it to you with a request for changes. You can check its status under My Account and Submissions.

Only submit content that you created or have the legal right to publish and monetise. Covers, remixes, adaptations and works containing material owned by someone else may require permission or a licence. Owning a copy does not necessarily give you the right to publish it or receive tips from it. Seek appropriate legal advice if you are uncertain.

Update your submission with a working link as soon as possible. Content that cannot be accessed or verified may be removed from the leaderboard until the problem is corrected.

Check the address carefully before submitting. A tip sent to an incorrect address is irreversible. That is the nature of Blockchain. If you discover an error, update the submission immediately.

The objective of the leaderboard is to provide visibility to works of people who wish to receive BSV tips. But it cannot and does not guarantee future tips, income, promotion or any particular ranking. Creators remain responsible for sharing and promoting their work.

An Ordinal (a "1Sat Ordinal") is a piece of content — an image, an audio file, a video, a web page, text, or another file — that has been permanently inscribed onto the BSV blockchain. Because it lives on-chain, it can never be altered or deleted, and it carries its own provenance: who created it and when. The catch is that nobody can easily browse Ordinals unless a website surfaces them — which is exactly what the Ordinals directory on BSV Search does.

It is a place where you can register your own Ordinals so other people can discover them, enjoy them, and support you. Each registered Ordinal gets its own page that shows the content itself, its on-chain details (creator, size, collection), and any ways the creator has chosen to be supported — tips, purchase, or licensing. You can browse everything in the directory and filter by media type, collection, categories and tags.

You register an Ordinal by its transaction ID (TXID) — the on-chain address of the inscription. Start a new Ordinal submission, paste in the TXID, and BSV Search automatically fetches the content, detects what type of media it is, and shows you a live preview so you can confirm it is the right one before you submit. You then add a title, choose categories and tags, and submit it for review like any other content on the site.

A TXID (transaction ID) is the 64-character code that identifies the transaction in which your content was inscribed on-chain. It can optionally be followed by an output index, for example _0. You will find it in the wallet or service you used to inscribe your Ordinal (for example, your inscription receipt or transaction history). Paste it in exactly as it appears — BSV Search will tidy up the formatting for you.

Images, audio, video, interactive (HTML) pages, plain text, and other file types are all supported. You do not need to tell us the type — BSV Search detects it automatically from the inscription and renders it the right way (an image is shown as a picture, audio and video get players, an interactive page is shown safely, and so on).

BSV Search fetches the content from the chain on demand whenever someone views it. We 'cache' the files on our servers to help reduce the load on BSV Indexers, so they do not have to serve the files every request. 

These are display-only — BSV Search shows the relevant BSV address (with a QR code) so a supporter can pay you directly, peer-to-peer. For Ordinals there is no middleman, no escrow and no fee taken by BSV Search. Amounts and prices are shown in BSV only. "Tips" are a no-strings thank-you; "Purchase" is for personal use; and "Licensing" is for commercial use. Each shows only when the creator has inscribed a BSV Tipping Address on the metadata of their Ordinal upon inscription. 

There are many places where you can inscribe ordinals. The one we use is 3DOrdi.io. You create a 'Collection', and then add a 'Trait' with a label that has the words Tip/Tipping/Tips, Buy/Purchas/Licens, maybe the word 'Address' or 'BSV' then followed by a valid BSV Address. If we are able to detect these Addresses, then we will use them here for that purpose. 

We do not use the Inscriber's BSV Address that paid for the inscribing because the funds they have there could be for many reasons, not a specific reason like tipping, licensing or buying. We also do not tip BSV address on which the ordinal is burnt to avoid risking destroying those ordinals. 

To protect creators. Because anyone could register someone else's Ordinal by its public TXID, allowing free-typed payment addresses would let a stranger redirect your tips and sales to themselves. So BSV Search only ever uses payment addresses that are inscribed in the Ordinal itself, on-chain. If an Ordinal has no inscribed payment address for an offering, that offering simply isn't shown — money can only ever reach an address the creator committed to on-chain.

For Ordinals that have a dedicated tip address inscribed on-chain, BSV Search adds up the total amount tipped to that address and the number of tips, and shows it as a simple appreciation signal (for example, "♥ 0.0003 BSV · 3 tips"). These figures are refreshed roughly once a week, so they may lag the very latest activity by a few days.

When you let people purchase or license your work, they need to know the terms. Rather than retyping your terms on every listing, you create a reusable Terms record — a short entry with a label (e.g. "Music Terms") that points to the on-chain document holding your current terms of use. You then attach that record to your Ordinal's purchase or licensing offering. The big advantage: if you ever update your terms, you change the record once and every Ordinal that points to it updates automatically.

You manage your own Terms records from the "My Terms records" page (also linked as a "+ Add new Terms record" option right on the Ordinal submission form). Give the record a label and paste the TXID of the on-chain document that holds your terms — you'll see a live preview of that document so you can confirm it's correct. Each person manages their own records, just like categories.

Two things are needed for a Purchase or Licensing offering to appear: an inscribed payment address for it (see the question about typing your own address), and a Terms record attached to it. Purchase and Licensing are only shown when a Terms record is attached — this makes sure buyers and licensees always have terms to read. Tips are different: they show whenever a tip address exists, and a Terms record is optional.

Yes. On your account profile you can set a Default Terms record. When you register a new Ordinal, its tip, purchase and licensing terms are pre-filled with your default, so a single document that covers everything needs no extra step. You can always override or clear it on any individual Ordinal.

Every listing shows a "View terms" link that opens your current terms document. Because both the payment and the terms live on-chain with dates, the version of your terms that was in effect at the time of a payment is always provable — updating your current terms later never changes agreements that were already made.

Yes — Ordinals go through the same review process as other submissions on BSV Search (new → Admin to Review → Cleared → Published). You can register your Ordinal, see a preview, and submit it; it becomes publicly visible once it has been reviewed. See the "Making a Submission" section above for how the moderation states work.

Please only register content you created or have a legal right to use, and the same copyright care described in the "BSV-Tipped Content" section applies here. Remember that payment addresses come only from what is inscribed on-chain, so funds always go to the parties committed in the inscription — but you should still not list work that isn't yours to offer.

Yes. You can edit your Ordinal's title, categories, tags and attached Terms records at any time from your listing, and you can unpublish or delete it. The on-chain content itself is permanent and stays on the blockchain regardless — editing the listing only changes how it appears in the BSV Search directory.

A Web3 Site is a complete website whose individual pages have each been permanently inscribed onto the BSV blockchain as Ordinals. Instead of living on a web server, every page is stored on-chain — so it is timestamped, carries its own provenance, and cannot be quietly altered or taken down. BSV Search caches these files, and services them to site users here on BSVSearch.com.

It is a browsable index of the Web3 Sites we have published, at bsvsearch.com/web3sites. You can search by keyword and filter by category or tag, then open any site and read it right here on BSV Search — no wallet, plug-in or special browser required. It is the counterpart to the Ordinals directory, but for whole websites rather than single inscriptions.

An ordinary website lives on rented hosting under a DNS domain; if the bill goes unpaid or the host shuts down, the site vanishes — a great deal of the early web has been lost this way. A Web3 Site's pages live on the blockchain instead, so they persist independently of any single company. BSV Search simply reads those on-chain pages and presents them to you as a website.

Open the Web3 Sites directory, choose a site, and it opens on BSV Search at its short address — for example, bsvsearch.com/earthlog.web3. From there you can click through its pages just like any other website. Each page you see came from its inscription on the blockchain.

The pages, along with their images, audio and other files, are stored on the BSV blockchain. BSV Search fetches that on-chain content, caches it so it loads quickly, and serves it to you. We are the window onto the content, not its permanent home — the blockchain is.

The inscribed pages themselves are permanent and cannot be edited or deleted — that is the whole point. What the author can do is publish a new version of a page and point the site's address at the new inscription. The earlier version still exists on-chain; the site simply displays the latest one.

They re-inscribe the page as a new Ordinal and re-point that page's address to the new inscription. Links between the pages keep working, so a single page can be refreshed without rebuilding the whole site. Nothing is overwritten — the previous inscription remains on the chain as a permanent record.

Each page of your site is first inscribed on-chain as an Ordinal, which gives it a transaction ID (TXID). A Web3 Site is then simply a name plus a small map that links each page to its TXID. The pages themselves are ordinary, self-contained HTML files, so building one takes the same skills as building any simple website — the only difference is that the pages live on the blockchain rather than on a server.

We've also made a video that walks through the whole process: "Web3 Websites for Photographers, Artists and Musicians: Prove Authorship, License Your Work, Get Paid" (https://youtu.be/BSecAAF4QlI).

At the moment, Web3 sites on the BSV blockchain are viewed through https://browser.ordnet.io/. (Web3 domains can be bought at https://domains.ordnet.io/). Soon, you'll also be able to register your site here on BSV Search so people can browse it directly — the way we already display the Earth Log, Marquez and Thank You sites. Making these sites viewable in more than one place adds real resilience: your site, and everyone else's, stays findable and browsable even if any single browser goes away. We're working on this now, so it's worth checking back.

Not yet, but it's on the way. We plan to support tipping for Web3 sites the same way we already do for Ordinals. Once it's live, BSV Search will read your site's home page (index.html) inscription and look for a field specifically marked as a tipping address — for example, one labelled "BSV Tipping Address". If it finds one, a tip option will appear so visitors can send the author a tip directly; if a site doesn't show one, the author simply hasn't set it.

They are built from the same foundation. Every page of a Web3 Site is an Ordinal — an on-chain inscription — so a Web3 Site is really a collection of Ordinals (the pages, plus their images, audio and other files) tied together under one name and presented as a browsable website. If you understand the Ordinals directory, Web3 Sites are the next step up: whole sites rather than single pieces. Web3 Sites provide you an opportunity to present your individual ordinals in a way that you want them presented.

Because every page lives on the BSV blockchain, the content itself does not depend on BSV Search to survive — the inscriptions remain on-chain permanently. BSV Search provides a convenient way to browse and read them, but the underlying pages would still exist and could be served by any tool that can read the chain.

Sovereignty Tools is a collection of source-visible, self-contained HTML applications for people who want to create their own BSV keys or make payments using BSV addresses and private keys they control.

The current collection contains Sovereign Keys for key creation and inspection, and Sovereign Pay for preparing, reviewing, signing and sending BSV transactions. The applications can be saved, backed up and opened in a modern browser without installing software or creating an account.

Self-custody gives you control, but it also gives you responsibility. A mistake, a leaked private key or a transaction sent to the wrong address may not be reversible.

Choose Sovereign Keys 1.0 when you want to create and control your own BSV keys.

Choose Sovereign Pay when you want to spend BSV from compatible addresses and WIF private keys you already control, or when you want to create a Pay Page.

For Sovereign Pay, use the simplest edition that meets your needs:

• Standard Edition 1.0 — the leanest edition, with deliberate manual address entry.
• QR Edition 1.0 — Simple address scanning — for scanning individual BSV address fields.
• QR Edition 1.2 — Expanded payment and signing QR — for QR support involving lists, payment requests, private keys, offline signing or signed transactions.
• QR Edition 1.3 — Expanded payment and signing QR — The same as QR Edition 1.2 but just comes in different themes to suit multiple preferences: 
  • Light 
  • Obsidian Vault
  • Aurora Glass

Compare the tools and editions.

No account or software installation is required. The tools run as HTML files in a modern browser.

Sovereignty Tools does not take custody of your funds. You remain responsible for the private keys and recovery information that control them. Sovereign Pay can use independent network services when you deliberately ask it to find confirmed spendable coins or send an already-signed transaction, but it does not require you to transfer your funds into an account controlled by the tool.

Sovereign Keys can help you create and inspect BSV key material on a device you control. Its functions include creating a single key and printable paper wallet, creating a set of related addresses from one recovery phrase, dividing a secret into separate parts, and searching for an address that begins with characters you choose.

These functions do not all have the same risk. Read the Sovereign Keys 1.0 User Guide before relying on a key, recovery phrase, encrypted printout or divided secret.

The released Sovereign Keys 1.0 application is designed to make no application network calls and no browser-storage calls. It can be downloaded and used on an offline device.

That does not make every device safe. Malware, screen capture, a compromised browser, insecure printing, cloud-synced folders or physical access to the device can still expose a secret. Use a device and environment appropriate to the value you plan to protect.

Begin with a new key on a trusted device, preferably offline. Read the guide, create and check the backup material you will need, and make sure you can identify the public address separately from the private key or recovery phrase before adding funds.

Do not place a real private key, WIF, seed, mnemonic, recovery phrase, wallet backup or passphrase in a screenshot, cloud note, chat message, forum post or support request. For a first experiment, use only a very small amount that you can afford to lose.

No. Sovereignty Tools does not keep an account or a recovery copy of your secrets. If the only private key, recovery phrase or required backup is lost, the tool cannot restore access to the funds.

Make backups suitable for the key method you choose, store them securely, and test your understanding before funding the address. Never send recovery material (keys, passphrases, passwords) to somebody who offers to “check” or “restore” it for you. There's plenty on Social Networks.

Sovereign Pay helps you prepare, review, sign and send BSV transactions using compatible BSV addresses and WIF private keys you control. It can find confirmed spendable coins when you ask it to, or it can accept coin details for an offline process. Transaction construction and signing take place locally in the application.

It also includes Create a Pay Page, which lets a recipient prepare a self-contained payment page using an address they control.

Sovereign Pay is a self-custody tool, not a promise that a transaction is correct for your circumstances. Review every address, amount, fee, change output and optional note before signing.

Choose Sovereign Pay — Standard Edition 1.0 when you want the leanest edition and are comfortable entering addresses manually.

Choose Sovereign Pay — QR Edition 1.0 when you only want to scan individual address fields.

Choose Sovereign Pay — QR Edition 1.2 when you also need QR support for lists, private keys, payment requests, offline signing or signed transactions.

Choose Sovereign Pay — QR Edition 1.3 for the same expanded QR support as Edition 1.2 in your choice of visual theme — Light, Obsidian Vault or Aurora Glass. Light is the edition the official page currently recommends.

In short: Choose Edition 1.0 when you only want to scan addresses. Choose Edition 1.2 or 1.3 when you also need QR support for lists, private keys, offline signing or signed transactions; 1.3 adds a choice of visual themes.

Compare the Sovereign Pay QR editions.

No. QR Edition 1.0 remains an active Public Preview edition. Its narrower purpose is useful for people who want simple address scanning without the expanded QR options in Edition 1.2 and 1.3 which add capability; it does not silently replace Edition 1.0.

No universal compatibility is claimed. Sovereign Pay is designed for compatible BSV addresses, transaction data and private keys in WIF format. Other wallets may hide their keys, use a different signing method or provide data in a format Sovereign Pay does not accept.

Do not export or expose a wallet secret merely to make it fit a tool you do not yet understand. Read the exact-edition guide and test with a new key and a very small amount.

No. A QR code is a way to transport data, not proof of who created it or whether it is safe. Sovereign Pay validates supported data and shows important details for review, but you must still check the destination, amount, note and other transaction details.

A checksum can help detect damaged or incomplete data. It does not authenticate the sender. Private-key QR codes are especially sensitive because cameras, screens, image files or a compromised device may expose the key. Never scan a private-key QR merely because somebody asks you to.

Yes. Each released application is a self-contained HTML file with its required code and libraries included. You can save it, transport it, back it up and open it in a modern browser without a conventional installation.

Portability does not prove that every copy is genuine. If the file came from another person, email, chat, USB drive, cloud storage or another website, compare its SHA-256 digital fingerprint with the value on the official Sovereignty Tools page before entering a secret or using funds.

Sovereign Keys is designed for local or offline use and makes no application network or browser-storage calls.

Sovereign Pay prepares and signs transactions locally. An internet connection is used only when you ask the application to perform a network action, such as finding confirmed spendable coins or sending an already-signed transaction to the BSV network. Its guides explain how coin details can be moved into an offline process when you do not want the signing device connected.

Yes. Sovereign Pay supports a process in which transaction information is prepared on one device and signing takes place on a separate offline device. Sovereign Pay — QR Editions 1.2 and 1.3 add QR support for key-free offline signing packages and for returning a signed transaction to the connected device.

Follow the exact-edition guide and compare the transaction details on both devices. Move signing packages only between devices you control; do not post them publicly or send them to another person. A package checksum helps detect transport errors but does not prove who created the package.

Some browsers restrict camera access when an HTML file is opened directly from local storage. This is a browser or device restriction and does not necessarily mean the application is broken.

You can use the image-decoding option, enter the value manually, or use a trusted application that can open the local file with camera access. Do not keep photographs or screenshots of private-key QR codes. See Local file camera access and QR alternatives.

The source is visible, but the project licence and attribution still apply. The permitted customization is limited; consult the licence inside the exact application before changing or redistributing it.

Any modification creates a different file with a different SHA-256 value. Treat it as a separately testable version, not as the official Sovereignty Tools release. Do not remove warnings or attribution, rename the products for white-label distribution, or alter or redirect the Sovereign Pay tool fee.

Use a fresh one each time. This was Bitcoin’s original design: the early client generated a new address for every transaction, and treating one address like a permanent bank account only became a habit later.

Two reasons:

• Exposure. A private key (WIF) is most at risk at the moment you use it — whatever device or software touches it could, in the worst case, be compromised. If each key is used once and the remaining coins are sent on to a new address whose key has never been entered anywhere, the most that is ever at stake is the amount in that one session. Reusing the same key means one bad moment exposes everything the address will ever hold.
• Privacy. Everything an address does is public on the blockchain. Reusing one address links your entire payment history together for anyone to read.

With the Sovereignty Tools: generate fresh keys with Sovereign Keys (ideally on an offline device), and note that in Sovereign Pay the change address defaults to the address you are paying from, for simplicity — to follow the fresh-key practice, enter a new address of yours in the change field instead.

Using a key once limits the damage a compromise can do; it does not remove the need for the other precautions. For meaningful amounts, also verify the file you are using and prefer the offline signing workflow.

Self-custody means that you, rather than Sovereignty Tools, control the private keys that authorize spending. The application does not hold an account balance for you and cannot freeze, recover or reverse your funds.

The benefit is direct control and portability. The responsibility is that a leaked secret, missing backup, wrong destination or misunderstood transaction can lead to permanent loss. Use security measures proportionate to the value involved.

WIF stands for Wallet Import Format. It is a text form of a Bitcoin private key. Anyone who obtains a usable WIF may be able to spend the funds controlled by that key, so treat it as a secret.

A public BSV address can be shared when you want to receive a payment. Its WIF must not be shared. Sovereignty Tools support and forum helpers should never need your WIF.

Sovereign Pay uses the WIF locally to create the digital signatures that authorize the transaction. In the released application, the WIF is not sent in network requests, saved in browser storage, placed in the payment journal, included in the signed transaction or automatically copied to the clipboard.

The WIF remains in the form until you clear it or close or reload the page. Clear the WIF field promptly after signing. Clearing the field reduces how long it remains visible in the form; it does not make a compromised device safe.

After signing, clear the WIF field. Then clear the device clipboard and, where available, its clipboard history. Also check whether a keyboard, clipboard manager or cloud-sync feature keeps copied content.

These steps reduce lingering exposure; they cannot undo an earlier leak or make malware safe. If you suspect the WIF was exposed, stop using it. On a trusted device, move any remaining funds to a new backed-up key using an amount and method appropriate to the risk.

Use a new source key containing only a very small amount of BSV that you can afford to lose. Work on a trusted device, confirm your backup, read the exact-edition guide and check every destination, amount, fee and change output before signing.

Do not begin by importing a key that controls meaningful funds. A successful tiny transaction helps you learn the steps, but it does not prove that every future device, provider response or transaction will behave the same way.

Change is the part of the selected funds that remains after the payment and fees. In a Bitcoin transaction, that remainder must be deliberately sent to an address you control or otherwise accounted for in the transaction.

Sending change to a fresh, backed-up address can help you retire the old source key after the transaction is confirmed. It does not protect the old WIF while you are signing on a compromised device. Always verify that you control the change address and that its backup works before signing.

Signing uses the private key locally to authorize the exact transaction. Sending to the BSV network, also called broadcasting, sends the already-signed transaction to a network service so it can reach miners. This does not require sending the WIF.

A service saying it accepted the transaction does not guarantee that miners will include it in a block. Confirmation means the transaction has been mined into the blockchain. Use the displayed TXID to check its status, and wait for the level of confirmation appropriate to what you are doing before treating the payment as final.

Create a Pay Page lets a recipient prepare a self-contained HTML payment page using a BSV address they control. The page can then help a payer prepare and review a payment without the recipient taking custody of the payer’s private key.

Before sharing a Pay Page, verify its receiving address and configuration. A payer should also verify the recipient, destination and amount and should never send a WIF or other secret to the person who supplied the page.

Not if you deliberately place them on-chain. Sovereign Pay starts with blockchain note embedding switched off. If you switch it on, the note may become public and permanent as part of the transaction.

Never put a private key, WIF, seed, mnemonic, recovery phrase, password, personal data, confidential message or other sensitive information in an on-chain note.

The Sovereign Pay tool fee is 0.01% of the transaction amount, with a minimum fee of one satoshi. A satoshi is the smallest unit of BSV.

Review the transaction preview before signing so you understand the payment, change and fees shown for that transaction.

Sovereign Pay uses independent BSV network services only after you request a network action, such as finding confirmed spendable coins or sending an already-signed transaction to the network. Transaction preparation and signing are local.

The released materials identify WhatsOnChain and Bitails as independent services; no affiliation or endorsement is implied. Service availability and responses can change. The released application does not send the WIF in these network requests.

UTXO means unspent transaction output. In ordinary language, it is a Bitcoin transaction output that may be available to spend — a spendable coin.

Sovereign Pay’s online lookup is designed to count confirmed outputs that are not already being spent by a pending transaction. It reports pending incoming or outgoing amounts separately. The application also rechecks signed inputs before its built-in network submission, but you should still review the result and understand that live network state can change.

The downloadable journal records payment details useful for your own records, including public transaction information and the source BSV address or addresses used. Multiple source addresses may appear together. That information can reveal financial activity, so store and share the journal with care.

The released application does not place the WIF in the journal. A journal is not a substitute for checking the signed transaction or monitoring its confirmation status.

Public Preview means that extensive internal checks have been carried out on the current releases and careful users are invited to try them and provide useful feedback. It is not a claim that every device, browser, transaction type or real-world situation has been covered.

Begin with a new key and a very small amount while you learn the tool. Read the guide for the exact edition you use, and report unexpected behaviour without sharing secrets.

The current inscription-state collection passes 467 of 467 maintained release-gate checks. The final pre-inscription candidate passed 550 of 550 release-gate checks, and the documentation checks passed 212 of 212. The lower current count reflects a different publication-state mode rather than removed product safeguards.

The checks cover file identity, packages, published hashes and TXIDs, key safety controls, transaction review protections, edition boundaries, documentation and other release requirements. Some focused browser and device checks have also been completed. The figures are not additive, and different editions do not all have identical behavioural coverage. See Testing Status for the current explanation and limits.

No. The documented checks are internal release evidence, not an independent security audit, certification, warranty or guarantee. Prior AI review is peer input, not audit authority.

The checks do not prove that every physical camera, browser permission, network service response, key method, QR payload or transaction will work correctly in every situation. 

Testing reduces known risk; it cannot remove the consequences of a wrong address, leaked key, device compromise, misunderstood option or unexpected live-network condition.

A new key and a very small amount limit the damage if you make a mistake while learning. Increase your reliance only after you understand the exact edition, have working backups and have assessed whether the device and process are suitable for the value involved.

It means the approved collection files were published as data inside BSV transactions. The approved collection — applications, guides, website pages and shared assets — has been inscribed, mined and reconciled to the approved local files.

Every route under the official Sovereignty Tools page displayed its expected page identity in the most recent live check, and any file can be checked at any time on the verification page. This evidence confirms the recorded inscriptions and page identities; it is not a promise that every browser, download, cache or network action has been tested.

The file on the blockchain is intact — the difference comes from how the copy was made. The three common causes:

• Saving from a viewer page. The copy shown at bsvsearch.com adds one small navigation tag so the page’s links work on this site, so it will not match the published fingerprint. Use the file’s raw download link or the verification page instead.
• Saving with the browser. “Save page as” makes the browser rebuild the page from its rendered form, producing different bytes every time.
• Gateway CDNs. Some blockchain content gateways sit behind CDNs that insert an analytics script into HTML pages served to browsers. The same URL fetched with a command-line tool returns the clean bytes.

To get a byte-exact copy that matches the published SHA-256, use the verification page, which fetches the raw bytes, checks the fingerprint in your own browser, and only then saves the file.

Every Sovereignty Tools file has a published SHA-256 fingerprint and blockchain transaction ID, listed on the Sovereignty Tools page. To verify a copy:

1. Easiest: open the verification page, enter the transaction ID and the published SHA-256, and press Fetch & verify. It downloads the on-chain bytes, computes the fingerprint on your own device, and tells you whether they match. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
2. Manually: download the raw file with a command-line tool, for example
   curl -o tool.html "https://ordinals.gorillapool.io/content/<TXID>"
   then compute the fingerprint: Get-FileHash tool.html -Algorithm SHA256 (Windows PowerShell), shasum -a 256 tool.html (macOS), or sha256sum tool.html (Linux), and compare it with the published value. The command-line step matters: some gateways — including this one — insert an analytics script into HTML pages served to browsers, so a browser download from them will not match even though the on-chain file is intact. The same URL fetched from the command line returns the exact bytes. (OrdFS, https://ordfs.network/content/<TXID>_0, currently serves matching bytes either way.)

A single changed byte produces a completely different fingerprint. Never enter a private key into a copy whose fingerprint does not match the published value.

A TXID, or transaction ID, identifies a BSV transaction. For an inscribed Sovereignty Tools file, the TXID identifies the transaction containing that file.

The official Sovereignty Tools page publishes the current TXIDs so advanced users can trace the release to its recorded blockchain transactions. A TXID identifies the transaction; it is not, by itself, a safety guarantee or a substitute for checking which file and version you intend to use.

A SHA-256 value is a digital fingerprint calculated from a file’s exact bytes. If even a small part of the file changes, its SHA-256 value will normally be different.

Comparing your file’s SHA-256 with the value on the official Sovereignty Tools page helps you determine whether your copy matches the approved release. Matching values establish file identity, not that your device is free from malware or that the application is suitable for every use.

Not necessarily. We do our best to ensure that our servers are healthy. If you open the tool through the official Sovereignty Tools page on BSVSearch.com, you can explore it or begin a tiny experiment without first calculating a hash.

File checking becomes especially important when an HTML file arrives from another person, email, chat, USB drive, cloud storage or another website, and you want to see if they are distributing files that match what we inscribed on the Blockchain. Treat the hash as a useful protection for transported copies, not as a barrier to first seeing the official tool.

When you do want to check a file, the verification page does the calculation and comparison for you.

Check the file before entering a WIF or using funds if it came from anywhere other than the official Sovereignty Tools route, or if it has been stored, copied or modified in a way you do not fully trust.

Calculate its SHA-256 using the instructions in Choose Your Tool and Work Safely, then compare the complete value with the published value for the exact edition and version — or use the verification page, which fetches the on-chain bytes and does the comparison for you. If it does not match, do not treat the file as the official release and do not enter a secret. Return to the official page or from a BSV Explorer and and obtain a known current copy.

The bytes inside a mined inscription do not change. A correction or new version therefore needs a new file, SHA-256 value and TXID. BSVSearch can update a route to point to a newer inscription while the earlier transaction remains part of the blockchain history.

Use the official Sovereignty Tools page to find the current version, hashes, TXIDs and advisories. For strict byte verification, do not assume that every gateway-delivered HTML response is identical to the raw inscription; an intermediary can add or alter delivered page code even though the on-chain bytes remain unchanged.

The current Public Preview releases are:

• Sovereign Keys 1.0
• Sovereign Pay — Standard Edition 1.0
• Sovereign Pay — QR Edition 1.0
• Sovereign Pay — QR Edition 1.2
• Sovereign Pay — QR Edition 1.3 — Light, Obsidian Vault and Aurora Glass (the same capabilities as QR Edition 1.2, in three visual themes, with one shared 1.3 guide)

QR Editions 1.0, 1.2 and 1.3 are all active choices. Check the official Sovereignty Tools page before downloading or relying on a saved copy, because future corrections or new versions will have different hashes and TXIDs.

Use the official Sovereignty Tools page on BSVSearch.com. It provides the current editions, guides, hashes, TXIDs, testing information and advisories.

The separate address sovereignkeys.web3 displays Sovereign Keys 1.0. The separate address sovereignpay.web3 displays Sovereign Pay — QR Edition 1.3 — Light, the currently recommended edition. For the Standard Edition, use the official collection’s Standard Edition route.

Start with Choose Your Tool and Work Safely. Each application also has an exact-edition user guide linked from the official collection page.

The Technical and Safety Appendix covers additional security, file checking, camera and offline-use details. The Testing Status page explains what has been checked and what remains outside the current evidence.

Use the Sovereignty Tools forum discussion. Include the product edition and version, your device and browser, the steps you followed, what you expected and what happened.

Never post or send a private key, WIF, seed, mnemonic, recovery phrase, wallet backup, passphrase, signing package, screenshot containing a secret or other sensitive data. If an example is necessary, use clearly fabricated, non-funded information that cannot control real funds.