Terms & Conditions

Foreverscribe isn't open for orders yet: you can't place one, and the order buttons say "coming soon". Before ordering opens, we'll name the company that runs Foreverscribe on this page, and these Terms will apply to orders from then on.

Contact: hello@foreverscribe.com.

A service: we write the exact message you approve into a Bitcoin transaction, and give you a certificate (a page and a PDF to print) with the transaction's reference.

A private ownership key, made in your browser when you order and sealed into that same transaction, so you can later prove this engraving is yours (see "Your ownership key").

Messages are limited to 80 bytes of text. Plain letters, numbers and spaces use one byte each; some characters and emoji use several, so the limit can be fewer than 80 visible characters. The counter shows how much room is left, and the message you approve at checkout is exactly what we send.

Your order is complete when your message is in a Bitcoin block and your certificate is available. Sending a transaction to the network is not the same as it being in a block.

You're not buying Bitcoin, a token, an NFT, an investment or anything you can resell, and you don't get any intellectual-property rights from us.

Your message is sent publicly to the Bitcoin network. Once it's sent, we can't reliably recall it or stop others from copying it. Once it's in a block, we can't change or remove it from Bitcoin.

The names you enter for your certificate (who signed it, and who it's in honor of) are not written to Bitcoin or shown on public pages. Anyone who has your certificate's private link can see them, and can copy or share them. Making a new link stops the old one from working, but doesn't recall copies already made.

Use words you're comfortable making public for good. Don't include, about anyone (yourself included), even with permission:

• —health: an illness, diagnosis, treatment, disability, mental health, addiction or recovery, or how someone died
• —religion: what someone believes or practises, or their faith or denomination. Greetings and blessings such as "God bless you" or "Merry Christmas" are fine
• —sexual orientation or sex life
• —addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, or any government, account, card or bank number, even a partial or joking one
• —anything that identifies a child beyond a first name
• —other private facts about someone (money, legal trouble, family secrets)
• —threats, harassment, hate, or accusations that could harm a real person or business
• —sexual content involving minors, scams, payment requests, or anything illegal
• —song lyrics, poems or other writing you don't have the right to use

Our automated check is designed to catch these before you can pay, but it can miss things. Its approval doesn't mean a message is anonymous, lawful or safe to publish, and you're responsible for what you engrave. We can also refuse any order.

You keep whatever rights you have in your words. You let us and our service providers handle them as needed to check and fulfill your order: sending your message to Bitcoin, and showing it, the occasion and the date on your certificate's public page and in our registry.

We don't show the names on your certificate anywhere except through its private link, and we don't use your words in advertising without asking you first.

We may remove or hide content on the systems we run (our pages and registry) to deal with unlawful content, complaints or misuse. That doesn't remove it from Bitcoin or from copies others keep. To report an engraving that breaks these rules, or involves you without your permission, use the form at foreverscribe.com/report, or write to hello@foreverscribe.com with its FS ID. If we remove an engraving for breaking these rules, we may refuse further orders from the person who ordered it.

The price is $49 in U.S. dollars, and it includes Bitcoin's network fee. On the rare day that fee is extremely high, we may pause new orders for a while instead of charging more. Your total, with any tax, is shown before you pay, and we never charge more than that total.

A higher fee helps your message into an early block, but nobody can guarantee a particular block.

Card payments are handled by our payment processor, Stripe. We don't see or store your full card number.

We aim to send your message to the Bitcoin network within 1 hour of your payment; usually it's within seconds. If we haven't sent it within the hour, we'll email you.

Getting into a block is up to the network. Bitcoin adds a block about every 10 minutes on average, but yours can take longer when the network is busy; we may raise the fee at our own cost to help it along.

• —You can ask to cancel at any time before your message is sent. If we get your request in time and can stop it, we cancel the order and refund you in full. Sending can happen within seconds of payment.
• —If we refuse your order, or haven't sent it within 24 hours of payment, we cancel it and refund you in full without your having to ask.
• —If, 7 days after you pay, your message isn't in a block or your certificate isn't ready, you can ask for a full refund. (Your message may still land in a block later; that doesn't affect your refund.)
• —If what we sent differs from the message you approved, you can choose a full refund or a corrected engraving at no charge. The first one stays on Bitcoin either way.
• —Changing your mind, or a mistake in the message you approved, doesn't qualify for a refund once it's sent.
• —We start refunds to your original card within 5 business days. Your bank may take longer to show it.

None of this limits rights you have under the law or your card's dispute rights.

Your certificate shows the Bitcoin transaction and block that hold your message. The block's time is the time recorded by the network, not an independently certified moment of writing.

It doesn't establish who you are, who wrote or first thought of the words, ownership, or any legal right, and it isn't a government or official record, a patent, a copyright or a trademark.

Bitcoin and our website are separate: we can't promise our site, registry or links, or anyone else's Bitcoin explorer, will run forever. Save your PDF and the transaction ID.

When you order, your browser makes a private ownership key and keeps it on your device. Only a seal made from it is sent to us and written into your engraving's transaction. We never receive the key itself, so we can't see it, recover it or send it to you again.

Keeping it is up to you: save your private ownership card (a PDF your browser makes, offered as the first step on your certificate page) or put the key in your password manager. Until you do, the only copy is in the browser you ordered from. If every copy is lost, the engraving and your certificate are unaffected, but you can no longer make proofs for it.

With the key you can make a proof link that anyone can check in their own browser against Bitcoin. Each proof is signed twice with that key: once the way Bitcoin signs, and once with a post-quantum signature (ML-DSA, a NIST standard), following current best practices for post-quantum security. A valid proof shows that whoever made it holds the key sealed into the engraving when it was sent. It doesn't show who that person is, and it isn't legal ownership or any right in the words.

Treat the key like a password. Anyone with a copy can make valid proofs, and a copy can't be cancelled. Giving it to someone doesn't transfer anything: you both hold it.

Checking a proof relies on Bitcoin and public explorers, not on us. The method is published, so it can be checked even if our site isn't there.

You must be at least 18 and in the United States, with a U.S. billing address. You can't use the service where U.S. law doesn't allow us to serve you, for example because of sanctions.

We link to Bitcoin explorers and to frames on Amazon, which are run by others under their own terms. If you buy a frame through our links, we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.

Apart from what we promise in these Terms, we provide the service as it is. Bitcoin is run by many independent computers, not by us, and we can't control how it works in the future.

Where the law allows, we're not liable for indirect losses, and our total liability for an order is limited to what you paid for it. Nothing here limits liability that the law doesn't let us limit, or overrides our promises about sending and refunds.

We may update these Terms. Changes apply only to orders placed after they're posted; the version you accepted is saved with your order.

These Terms are governed by Illinois law, but you keep any consumer protections where you live that can't be waived. Disputes can go to the courts in Cook County, Illinois, or to a small-claims court where allowed, and you can always contact a regulator. We'd like you to write to us first, but you don't have to.