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,…
Web3 Sites
Web3 Sites are complete websites whose pages have each been permanently inscribed onto the BSV blockchain, and which BSV Search displays under a short address such as bsvsearch.com/earthlog.web3. This section explains what they are and how they work.
What is the Web3 Sites directory on BSV Search?
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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…
How is a Web3 Site different from an ordinary website?
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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…
How do I visit a Web3 Site?
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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…
Where are the pages stored — does BSV Search host them?
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The pages, along with their images, audio and other files, are stored on the BSV blockchain, not on our servers. 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…
Can a Web3 Site be changed or taken down once it's published?
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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…
How does an author update a page?
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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…
Can I get my own Web3 Site? What do I need to publish a Web3 Site?
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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…
Can visitors support or tip a Web3 Site?
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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…
How is a Web3 Site related to Ordinals?
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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…