Foreverscribe: the facts.

Is Foreverscribe crypto, an NFT or an investment?

No. Foreverscribe issues nothing: no coin, no token, no NFT. There’s nothing to resell and nothing that changes in value. You pay in dollars and get your words on Bitcoin, a link to share and a certificate to frame.

Is putting messages on Bitcoin spam?

Some Bitcoin users feel strongly that the network should carry only payments, and we respect that view. We keep each engraving small: one ordinary transaction, at most 80 bytes of text, and no images or files. That’s about 200 vB, roughly 0.02% of one block, and it pays the going fee to miners like any other transaction.

We use OP_RETURN, the small field Bitcoin’s developers set aside in 2014 so that data people add anyway sits somewhere harmless, out of the list of spendable coins every node keeps in memory. During the 2025–2026 debate over how much that field should allow, proposals ranged from 80 bytes to effectively unlimited. An engraving fits within all of the ones we know of. Besides customer orders, Foreverscribe currently writes two short “dated originals” of its own each day, listed in the registry.

What stops someone engraving something hateful or private?

Every message gets an automated safety check before it can be paid for. It looks for threats, harassment, hate and private details such as a child’s last name, an address or a phone number, and sends messages that are close to the line back to be reworded. Payment only works for the exact text that was checked.

It isn’t perfect. It can miss things, especially in other languages, or names it doesn’t recognize as names. So we also ask everyone to read their words once more before paying, because nothing can be taken off Bitcoin once it’s there.

The names people enter for the certificate (theirs and the person they honor) don’t go on Bitcoin or on our public pages; they’re only on the owner’s certificate, behind a private link. Anything written in the message itself is public.

Is it really forever?

Your words last as long as people keep running Bitcoin, which they have every day since 2009. Nobody can promise more than that. What we can say: no company, including ours, has to stay in business for an engraving to stay readable. If Foreverscribe closed, the transaction ID on the certificate would still open the message on public Bitcoin explorers.

If it’s on Bitcoin, will people actually see it?

Not by accident. Bitcoin is a record, not a feed, and almost nobody browses its raw data. An engraving is seen by the people its owner shares it with, through its page, its certificate and our public registry, where every engraving is numbered and searchable.

What Bitcoin adds is proof, not an audience. Anyone shown an engraving can check, without asking us, that those exact words were written in a particular block on a particular date and haven’t changed since. It works like a land registry or a notary’s stamp: nobody reads them for pleasure, but they settle the question when it matters.

How can I check that an engraving is real?

Paste the transaction ID (or the certificate number) from the certificate into the search on our public registry. It reads the transaction from Bitcoin and tells you whether it’s a Foreverscribe engraving and whether the words match. Or skip us entirely and paste the transaction ID into a public Bitcoin explorer. Many show the message as code (hexadecimal) rather than letters; “See it on Bitcoin” on each certificate page reads the transaction from mempool.space and shows the bytes and the words side by side.

What about Bitcoin’s energy use?

A single engraving doesn’t make Bitcoin use more electricity: miners run the same machines whether a block holds our transaction or someone else’s. It’s one small transaction among hundreds of thousands made every day.