Why your words stay put.
The short version: we save your message on Bitcoin’s public record, which nobody owns and nobody can erase. Here’s the longer version, in plain words.
The four steps
1Write it
Room for 80 plain letters, about the length of a text. Accents and emoji take more room.
2Pay by card
$49, Bitcoin fees included. No crypto, no wallet.
3It’s engraved
In about 10 minutes your words go into Bitcoin’s next block. Thousands of computers keep a copy, and nobody can change it.
4Keep it
A link to share and a certificate to print and frame.
Why not just post it or print it?
You sure can. Here’s what usually happens to those.
- A post online
- Stays up as long as the company says so.
- A website
- Goes dark the month somebody stops paying for it.
- Paper in a drawer
- Fades, tears, or gets tossed in a move.
- A brass plaque
- Lasts as long as the wall it’s on.
- Your message on Bitcoin
- Nothing to renew, no single copy to lose, and it doesn’t depend on us staying in business.
A public record book that nobody owns.
Most folks know Bitcoin as money. Underneath the money, it keeps a public record of everything that happens on it. Thousands of computers around the world each keep a full copy, and they check each other around the clock.
Anyone can add a short line to that record. Once a line is in, nobody can change it or take it out, not even the person who wrote it.
No company runs it. Not us, not anyone.
- 10:09
- 10:21
- 10:31Yours
- 10:42
- 10:50
It hasn’t missed a day since 2009.
Bitcoin’s record has run every single day since January 2009. There’s no main office to close and no off switch.
To erase your message, someone would have to shut down every copy on every one of those computers at the same time, all over the world.
The honest part: it lasts as long as people keep Bitcoin running. So far, that’s every day for 17 years.
We write it into the next block.
Bitcoin adds a new page, called a block, about every ten minutes. When you pay, we put your words into a small Bitcoin transaction and send it to be included in the very next block. Bitcoin’s fee for that spot is included in your price.
Once it’s in a block, it’s part of the record, and every block added after it locks it in further. Your certificate fills in the block number and date.
You don’t have to take our word for it.
Every certificate carries a transaction ID, the exact address of your words on Bitcoin. Paste it into the search on our public registry: we read it straight from Bitcoin and tell you whether it’s a real Foreverscribe engraving, with the block and the date.
Or skip us entirely and paste it into a free Bitcoin explorer, none of which we run. Some show your words as code rather than letters; “See it on Bitcoin” on your certificate page translates them. That keeps working even if Foreverscribe closes its doors someday. Your words don’t live on our computers. They live on Bitcoin.
Proving it’s yours works the same way. When you order, your browser makes a private ownership key and seals it into your engraving. Save it on your private ownership card; later, open the card on our proof page to make a proof link, and whoever you send it to can check it against Bitcoin in their own browser, without asking us. Each proof is also signed with a NIST-standard post-quantum signature, following current best practices.
- 1Copy the transaction ID from your certificate.
b9bf6f3d5030c8e0…d675b8cf - 2Paste it into the search on our public registry, or into a public Bitcoin explorer.
- 3See the answer: your words, the block and the date. Verified Foreverscribe engraving
Good to know.
Will people come across it on Bitcoin?
Not by accident. Bitcoin is a record, not a feed: nobody scrolls through it. Your message is seen by the people you share it with, through your link, your certificate and our public registry. What Bitcoin adds is proof: anyone you show it to can check, without asking us, that these exact words were saved on that date and never changed.
Who owns Bitcoin's record?
Nobody. Think of a town record book that thousands of folks keep copies of. We just add your line to it.
Is this crypto or an investment?
No. You don't get a coin or a token, and nothing goes up or down in value. You're paying to save a message for good, plus your certificate.
Can it prove I said something first?
It proves the date. If you coin a word, a phrase or an idea and engrave it, anyone can see on Bitcoin that those exact words existed on that day, and nobody can backdate it. It isn't a trademark or a copyright registration, so for legal protection talk to a lawyer. What you do get is a dated, public record of when you wrote it down.
What about quantum computers?
We follow current best practices for post-quantum security. Proofs that an engraving is yours are signed twice: once the way Bitcoin signs, and once with a post-quantum signature (ML-DSA, a NIST standard) whose key is sealed in when you order. Nobody can promise what future computers will do, so we'll keep following the standards as they develop.
What do I get, exactly?
A page for your message with a link you can share with anyone, and a certificate with your words, the date and the proof. Print it at home or take it to a framer.
Ready when you are.
Write your words and pay by card. They usually go into Bitcoin’s next block, about ten minutes later.