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A letter from the editor

Send us a thank-you.
We will set it in stone.

The submission process is small on purpose. We read everything that comes in. Most thank-yous arrive inscribable as-is.

How to submit

There is one channel: email. The template below covers both cases — whether you would like us to inscribe your thank-you for you, or whether you have already inscribed it yourself and want it added to the directory. The difference is one optional field at the top of the template.

If you know how to inscribe your thank-you on the blockchain, we recommend you do that. The inscription is then in your hands from the start, and the directory points to your inscription rather than ours. In that case, paste the TXID into the INSCRIPTION TXID field of the template and leave the BODY field blank; the body lives at your TXID. Every other field still needs to be filled in — the metadata is what lets the directory entry read well in context, and it usually is not part of the inscription itself.

To submit, copy the template into a new email, fill in the fields with your own words, and send it to the address at the bottom of this page. We will reply within a few days.

Email template to submit

The template is short on purpose, but a little longer than it might first appear. The extra fields exist for two reasons: so that the person being thanked might recognise themselves if they ever come across the entry, and so that each thank-you carries enough texture — a place, a small specific detail, a reason for writing it now — to stand as a real memory rather than a generic note. Fill in what you can. The optional fields, only if they apply.

— Sender — YOUR NAME: [your real name, for our records; not published] YOUR EMAIL: [for us to reply; not published] ARE YOU THE PERSON WHO OWES THIS THANK-YOU? [Yes / No. The archive is for thank-yous written by the person who owes them.] — Entry — INSCRIPTION TXID: [Optional. If you have already inscribed this thank-you yourself, paste the transaction ID here, and leave the BODY field below blank. Otherwise, leave this line blank and fill in the BODY below.] TITLE: To [a short description of the recipient] PLACE: [the kind of place where this happened — e.g. "ticket window at a train station," "small library." General only, no street addresses.] CITY: [city or town] COUNTRY: [country] DATE OF EVENT: [year or month, as best you remember] DATE WRITTEN: [today] — The thank-you — BODY: [What happened. Where you were. What they did.] [What it meant. Not what you would put in a card. What you would say to them now, if you could.] RECOGNITION CUE: [One small detail only this person would remember — a phrase they used, a gesture, something they were doing or wearing. Enough that they would know it was them; not enough for a stranger to identify them.] ONE THING THAT CHANGED: [Briefly — what you did, or did not do, because of this moment. The downstream of their kindness in your life.] WHY NOW: [One sentence on why you are writing this today, and not earlier or later.] SIGNED: [Your name, your initials, or a phrase that fits, like "a stranger you helped" or "the boy at the train station"] — Optional — STILL LIVING (The person you are thanking): [Yes / No / I do not know] IF YOU RECOGNIZE YOURSELF: [A short message left for the person you are thanking, if they ever read this. Blank is fine.] — Acknowledgement — ACKNOWLEDGED: [Yes. I have re-read this. I understand it will be permanent once inscribed, and I am at peace with that.]

Before you send — a note on permanence

Once a thank-you is inscribed on the BSV blockchain, it cannot be deleted. Not by you, not by us, not by anyone. This is the point of the medium and the reason the archive exists at all — but it is also a responsibility. Please read your submission once more before you send it. Make sure it is what you want preserved. If you later need to clarify or correct an inscribed entry, we will inscribe the new version and link the two, but the original remains. An administration fee of 1 BSV (subject to change) applies to make any changes or to remove the thank-you from this archive. There is more on this on the About page and the Why Permanent page.

— Before you send —
  1. One thank-you per submission. If you have more than one to send, send them separately.
  2. No full names of recipients without permission. Description is enough.
  3. No content that could harm a third party.
  4. You actually mean it.
  5. It is as long as it needs to be. Short is fine; long is fine. Avoid padding — extra words that make the note longer without making it more specific or more true. Phrases like "I don't even know where to begin" or "words cannot express how grateful I am" are examples; they could appear in any thank-you, and so belong to none of them.
  6. You have re-read it, and you are at peace with it being permanent.

The Thanks Fund / Tipping Jar

Inscription as a small kindness

"The medium should not get in the way of the message."

If you would like to inscribe a thank-you but cannot or do not want to pay the inscription fee, write to us anyway. We keep a small fund — supported by readers who tip the archive — that pays the cost of inscribing thank-yous from people without wallets.

To add to the 'tipping jar', send any amount to the BSV address below. Every contribution pays for one or more inscriptions.

What we will reply with

When your submission is inscribed, we will reply with three things: the TXID of your thank-you, the URL where it lives on this archive, and the entry number it received in the directory. The TXID is yours to share, give, or print. The archive listing is permanent. Once both exist, the work of saying it is done.

A densely layered wall of handwritten notes, polaroids, postcards, pressed flowers and small drawn hearts, pinned and tacked across every inch of the surface, lit by small warm bulbs.
Every submitted thank-you joins the others. Together they make the wall.
— Contact —
[email protected] Tipping Jar for the Thank-You Fund (BSV only):
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