How this started
One of the thank-yous Marquez Comelab has carried longest goes back to a moment when he was a teenager at Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. A woman behind him in the ticket queue noticed he was short on the fare home and handed him paper money. He had migrated from the Philippines a few years earlier; she was a stranger; he never learned her name. He was almost certain he had not thanked her well enough that afternoon.
That afternoon is one of many such moments — kindnesses that arrived at the right time and were never properly answered. The idea for an archive of unsaid thanks took shape gradually as that list quietly accumulated over the years. What was missing for a long time was a medium — a place to put such notes that would not depend on a maintainer's attention or a hosting bill. The BSV blockchain finally provided one. The Flinders Street story became Entry No. I; others may follow.
This archive exists because that pattern is common. Almost everyone has at least one of these. A teacher who said the right thing. A stranger who stopped to help. A neighbour who noticed something no one else did. A friend's parent who fed you for a year. People we never thanked, often because we did not realise we should until too much time had gone by.
What we do here
We accept written thank-yous and inscribe them on the BSV blockchain, one at a time. Each one becomes a small permanent page with its own address. The directory of inscribed thank-yous lives at the Read page. Anyone can browse. Anyone can submit.
Editorial standard
We read every submission before we inscribe it. We are looking for three things, in roughly this order:
Real — this happened. Specific — we can picture it. Written by the person who owes the thanks.
We do not publish jokes disguised as thank-yous, advertisements, attacks, or messages whose real purpose is something other than gratitude. We do not ask to edit submissions for style. We do edit for safety — for instance, we may suggest removing a full name where a description would do.
If a submission is not a fit, we say so politely and quickly. We do not keep it; we do not inscribe it; we do not use it.
Who runs this
This archive was started by Marquez Comelab and is currently cared for by him. It is part of his wider work exploring what can be built on the original Bitcoin protocol and blockchain: digital cash, public records, permanent archives, creative works, and new ways for people to exchange value directly.
He is also behind BSVSearch.com, EarthLog.web3 — a long-term civilizational record of humanity — and Marquez.web3, where he explores and shares ideas on how creative individuals can share, preserve, and monetize their work using the blockchain.
To get in touch, see the Contact page.
On permanence
Nothing inscribed on the BSV blockchain can be deleted — not by us, not by the writer, not by anyone. That is the point of the medium, and it is the reason we read every submission carefully before inscribing it. If a writer ever needs to clarify, retract, or replace a previously inscribed entry, we will inscribe the new version and link the two. The old one remains.
If a writer later wishes to withdraw their entry from the archive's directory, the original inscription cannot be removed from the BSV chain — but we can repoint the directory's slot to a small withdrawal notice. The original remains on chain. Because withdrawal requires our editorial time and a new inscription, we ask for a contribution of 1 BSV (subject to change at any time) to cover the work.
Please understand this fully before you submit. A thank-you sent to us on paper or in an email can be unsent. A thank-you inscribed on BSV cannot.