Creations FAQs

Creations is where people sell their own work on BSVSearch and readers pay for access to it. A creator publishes a work, sets a price in satoshis, and chooses how long access lasts. A reader pays and reads it.

The part that makes it different from most places: BSVSearch never holds anybody's money. When you buy, your own wallet pays the creator's wallet directly. BSVSearch asks for the payment and recognises it on the blockchain — it never executes one, never touches your keys, and never holds funds.

An account here (it is free) and a BSV wallet you control with some satoshis in it. You must also be 18 or older and legally able to enter into a contract.

You do not connect your wallet to this site and you never type a key into it. You are shown an amount and an address, you pay it from your own wallet, and the site watches the blockchain for the payment to arrive.

There is a page for exactly this: No BSV yet?. It explains what a wallet is and what you need before your first purchase.
If you are looking where to buy BSV's, here is a compiled list of where to buy BSVs.

No, and it cannot. There is no wallet on this site, no balance on your account, and no key belonging to you anywhere in it. Every payment goes from your wallet straight to its destination.

That is also why there is no refund button — see "Can I get a refund?" below.

Sign in, open the work and use Buy access. You are shown the price, exactly what you are buying, how long your access lasts, and the two amounts your wallet needs to send — before you pay anything.

You accept the Selling Terms at that point, and the version you accepted is recorded with your purchase.

Because the money goes to two different places. Most of the price goes to the creator's own BSV address; a small part — the platform fee — goes to BSVSearch.

Wallets that can send both in a single transaction do so. Wallets that cannot send two simple payments instead. Either is fine. Access opens when both amounts have been seen.

10% of the price or 1000 satoshis, whichever is greater.

It is always stated that way rather than as a bare "10%", because below 10000 satoshis the 1000-satoshi minimum is more than 10%, and on the cheapest works it is a large share of the price. We would rather you saw that than discovered it.

The fee comes out of the price, not on top of it — so it is the creator who bears it, not you. The price is divided between the two payments rather than added to.

One detail worth knowing so it does not surprise you: each of the two payments also carries a small unique offset of a few satoshis, which is how the site tells one person's payment from another's. It means your total lands a few satoshis above the advertised price. Both exact amounts are shown to you before you pay.

Your wallet pays a small fee to the Bitcoin network to send a transaction. That fee is yours. BSVSearch does not receive it, set it, or control it, and it is not part of the price. We do not display or estimate one, because we would only be guessing at what your wallet will do.

So that your payment can be recognised. Payments are matched by the exact amount arriving at the exact address, so every invoice gets its own slightly unique amount. Pay what the invoice shows, to the digit.

One hour. Pay within it if you can.

If a payment arrives after that, it is still honoured as long as the amount uniquely matches the invoice, within a reasonable time rather than indefinitely. If one of your two payments is missing, the email we send you names the exact deadline and the address the money goes to — that email is the authority on how long you have. The site picks it up by itself on its next check and your access opens then — just not the moment you pay, the way it does inside the hour.

A payment for a different amount, or one arriving after that time, is the case that needs a person.

The payment itself is on the blockchain, at the address you sent it to. A different amount matches nothing, so it does not unlock access automatically: it is flagged and reviewed by hand. Tell BSVSearch about it.

Access is not released until both arrive — a purchase with one payment missing is not a purchase. Once the invoice's hour is up, the site emails you the amount that is missing and the address it goes to.

Send the missing amount, exactly, to that address — do not open a fresh purchase.

Going back to your existing purchase page is safe: it shows the payment that already arrived as a receipt rather than asking for it again. 🚨 Do not start the purchase again. The site will stop you — while this purchase is open, going back to the work brings you back here rather than to a fresh one — so the amounts on this page stay the only ones to pay. Paying the price a second time is something nothing in this system can reverse.

If you have in fact sent both, you need do nothing else — the case has already gone to BSVSearch for review.

If you would rather not finish it at all, Cancel this purchase is offered only while neither half has arrived. Once one payment is in it is no longer offered — that money has moved on the blockchain and nothing here can reverse it. Leaving the purchase unfinished costs you nothing further, and the case goes to BSVSearch for a decision.

The Purchases tab on your own profile, with a CSV export beside it. Your transaction IDs are there, so you can check every payment on any block explorer without taking our word for anything.

Whatever the work says, shown to you before you pay. There are seven possibilities, and this is how they are shown to you: single use, 1 week (7 days), 2 weeks (14 days), 1 month (30 days), 3 months (90 days), 6 months (180 days) or 1 year (365 days).

Months here are counted in days — "1 month" is 30 days, not a calendar month. The labels say so, because that is what the clock actually does.

24 hours that start the first time you access it — the first time you open it or try to download it, not the moment you pay.

Within those 24 hours you can open the work and re-download it as often as you need. An interrupted download never costs you a second purchase. When the 24 hours are up, access ends.

Yes — once before it ends, and once more when it has ended:

• 7 days ahead if you bought a month or more.
• 24 hours ahead if you bought less than a month.
• Nothing at all for single use — it is over too quickly for a warning to help, and it gets no ended email either.

The ended email carries a link to the work, should you wish to buy again. The one case where you may get a second reminder is if we add time to your access, because that moves the date the first one was about.

You can switch these off in your own email settings. Announcements of new articles have a switch of their own.

Not while it is running — you buy again when it ends. You cannot buy what you already have: while your access runs there is nothing to extend, and no Buy box is shown. When it ends, the work’s page offers it for sale again, on whatever terms apply then, and the fee is worked out afresh from the price you pay.

We email you when your access has ended, with a link to the work. It is not a renewal, and nothing here charges you automatically. Nothing is taken from your wallet unless you go and pay it yourself.

A personal, non-transferable licence to access one work, in the modes and for the duration shown to you at purchase. Not the work itself, not its copyright, and not any right to redistribute, resell or republish it.

Access is personal — it is the one thing here that does not transfer.

Not unless the work says so. The default is no, and every work states its answer before you pay.

You get the update — but not before it has been looked at. A substantive edit to a work you bought goes through review again first. Until a reviewer clears the new text, you keep reading the version that was live when you bought it, and your access clock runs on as normal.

Once cleared, the new text replaces the old one: updates are a possibility rather than a promise, and older versions are not kept. If a creator wants to sell a new version separately they have to publish it as a new work. They cannot make you pay again for the one you already bought.

Your purchase record keeps its own copy of the price you paid, the modes, the duration and a fingerprint of the work as it was at that moment. The creator cannot change any of that afterwards — including changing the price.

Your end date is the one thing that can move, and only ever in your favour: time the work spends taken down by BSVSearch or held under a rights claim is added back to it.

One payment for a fixed access period — 1 month (30 days), 3 months (90 days), 6 months (180 days) or 1 year (365 days) — during which you can read every paid work that creator charges for.

A creator offers one access period at one price, across their whole paid catalogue.

Some creators also offer subscriptions to a collection of their works — a newspaper, magazine or book, say: the same kind of access period, covering just that collection.

A named set of one writer’s articles — a newspaper, a magazine, a newsletter, a blog, a book or a series. The writer decides what goes in it and what to call it; the rules are the same for every kind.

A collection can be free to browse, or offered as a subscription: one payment for one access period — 1 month (30 days), 3 months (90 days), 6 months (180 days) or 1 year (365 days) — during which you can read everything in it, including articles the writer adds while your access period runs. A writer can sell a collection and still sell some of its articles on their own.

Sign in, open the collection and use Subscribe. Before you pay you are shown the price, the access period and the date it would end, how many articles it opens today, and the two amounts your wallet sends — one to the writer, and the platform fee to BSVSearch, which comes out of the price. You accept the Selling Terms at that point, and the version you accepted is recorded. Access opens when both payments have arrived.

It is a prepaid access period, not a recurring subscription: it does not renew itself, and nothing here can take another payment from you. A collection with nothing in it yet offers no subscription.

No. It is a prepaid access period, not a recurring subscription. Nothing here can take another payment from you. When the access period ends, it simply ends, unless you choose to buy another.

We email you seven days before the end, so the choice is yours to make in time, and once more when it has ended.

Yes, if you have a running subscription. When a new article appears in a catalogue or a collection you have an access period on — a new article is cleared, or an existing one is added to the collection — BSVSearch emails you about it: one email per article, naming every collection it is in.

Edits to a work, price changes and similar changes are not announced, and buying a single work does not sign you up for announcements.

You can switch announcements off in your email settings. It is a separate switch from the reminders. Like every email about a purchase, an announcement is a courtesy: one that is late or never arrives changes nothing about what you bought.

Everything that creator charges for — and the catalogue is a living thing:

• A work they publish during your access period is included, at no extra cost.
• A work they withdraw during your access period stays readable to you until your access period ends. New subscribers will not see it.
• A work deleted after an established infringement claim follows the rule for that work alone. The rest of your subscription is untouched.

A subscription covers one creator's works and nobody else's. Free works never needed one.

The writer has chosen not to sell that article on its own. You can read it with a subscription to a collection it appears in, or with a subscription to that writer, which covers everything they charge for. There is no Buy button for it.

No. Any one of them opens it. An article can appear in more than one of a writer’s collections, and a subscription to the writer covers every article they charge for, including the ones in their collections. You need only one of them to read it.

An article the writer adds is open to you from the moment it is in the collection, at no extra cost. BSVSearch emails you about it, unless you have switched announcements off.

An article the writer takes out stays readable to you until your access period ends, if your access period began before it was taken out. People who subscribe after that will not see it. The same goes for an article the writer withdraws from sale.

Not for one work, no. If a single work is held while a claim is looked at, you lose that work for as long as it is down, the rest of the catalogue carries on as normal, and your access period keeps counting. That is deliberate: if one contested work froze every subscription a creator had ever sold, a single false claim would become a lever against them.

It is different if a claim is made against a creator's whole catalogue. Then the access period does pause, and the time it spends paused is added to the end of it.

⚠ This is not the same rule as for buying a single work. Buy one work and it is quarantined, and that clock does stop.

Only by a rights claim on the collection itself, or by BSVSearch taking the collection down. Then the clock stops, BSVSearch emails you both times, and the paused time is added to the end of your access period when the collection comes back.

Nothing the writer does pauses it, and a claim about one article affects that article alone — the rest of the collection carries on and your access period keeps running.

You keep what you paid for. Your access period is served until it ends, whatever the creator does afterwards — the works you could read stay readable to you, even if the creator withdraws them, empties a collection, stops writing or leaves BSVSearch.

Only two things end an access period early: an infringement claim that is established, and BSVSearch ceasing to operate. In either case BSVSearch will say so. If you believe you should be made whole, tell BSVSearch: it will put that to the creator on your behalf and tell you what they say. It cannot promise the answer, and it has no money of yours to return.

A subscription is a promise about someone’s future work, and BSVSearch cannot make that promise for them. A creator who stops writing has broken no rule; what you keep is everything that was there, and everything that was added, while your access period ran.

No — you can subscribe again once it has ended. While your access period runs, the collection page shows the date it ends instead of a Subscribe button. BSVSearch is set to email you seven days before it ends and again when it has ended, with a link to subscribe again — unless you have switched reminders off.

A new access period starts when both its payments have arrived; nothing is added to the end of the one you have. The same rule applies to a subscription to a writer, and to an article bought on its own.

Two different things are for sale on a Creations article. Access is permission to read it. A reuse licence is permission to use the work inside one project of your own — a film, a book edition, an issue, a site — at a price the writer sets.

Not every work offers one. Where it is offered, the work page says so before you pay: the tier, the price, and the release deadline.

It is not a sale of the work. The writer keeps the copyright.

One project, named by you. When you buy you give the project name and the medium — whatever the one project is called — plus an optional note. That is what the licence covers, and it is frozen onto your invoice and your certificate.

A second project needs a second licence, even if it is also yours.

The writer picks one of two, and only these two exist:

• Personal / non-commercial reuse — one project that does not make money.
• Commercial, non-exclusive — one project, any revenue.

Non-exclusive is the word that matters in the second one: the writer can license the same work to other people for their own projects. There is no exclusive tier here.

The date your project has to be out by. The writer chooses six months or one year when they offer the licence, counted from when you buy, not from when you first open the work.

Release by that date and your right to use the work in that project is permanent. It does not end when your access here ends, and nothing the writer does afterwards takes it away.

Miss it and the licence does not cover the project. Whatever you release later, you release without permission.

There is nothing to come back and confirm. BSVSearch does not register your release and does not check whether it happened — your certificate is the record of what you bought, for what, and by when it had to be out.

If BSVSearch takes the work down for a while, or it is held under a rights claim, your deadline moves back by however long it was down. Read the deadline off the certificate, not from memory.

Yes, until the release deadline and not after. A licence includes access to the work here from the moment you buy until that date — the access period and the deadline are the same day, one a service we stop providing, the other a limit on you.

So take your own copy while it is open. BSVSearch is not somewhere your project can rely on to keep serving the work. Your access ending takes nothing away from what you may do with the work.

Until the licence is issued, yes: Correct the project name on your purchase covers the note as well — then Save the correction. After it is issued the project is fixed, because the project is the thing the licence is about.

If the medium is wrong, that is not a correction — use Cancel this purchase and start again.

No, and it is worth explaining why rather than just saying no.

BSVSearch never received your money. Your wallet paid the creator's wallet directly, and a second payment went to BSVSearch as the platform fee. There is no account here holding a balance of yours, and no refund button anywhere in this system, because the money never passed through us. Payments on the BSV blockchain cannot be reversed either, so there is no chargeback.

Read that before your first purchase, not after. If reversibility matters to you for a particular purchase, do not make it.

If a creator or BSVSearch ever chooses to send you money back, that is a new, voluntary payment — not a reversal.

The remedy here is access, restoration or honest words — never money. Everything sold here is digital and can be served again, so no failure needs to end in anybody owing anybody money.

If you paid and could not get what you paid for, tell us and we will restore your access or reissue the work.

Then we will say so plainly rather than leave you waiting for something that is not coming. Your purchase record is kept in full — what you paid, when, and under which terms.

If you believe you should be made whole, tell us. We will put that to the creator on your behalf and tell you what they say. We cannot promise the answer, and we have no money of yours to return.

It is one of two things: only one of the two payments arrived, or the amount sent did not exactly match the invoice. Both are recoverable and neither loses your money.

Check your email — the site will already have written to you if a payment is missing, and that email names the amount and the address. If you have paid both and still cannot read the work, tell us; the case may already be waiting for review.

One of five things, and they are not the same:

• The creator withdrew it. That stops new sales and removes the public preview. It does not touch access you have already paid for — you can still read it.
• The creator took it out of a collection. If your access period on that collection began before it was taken out, you can still read it until your access period ends. New subscribers will not see it.
• BSVSearch has taken it down. Nobody can read it, and your access clock is stopped while it is down, so you lose no paid time. The time it spends unavailable is added back.
• It is under a rights claim. See below — suspended is not cancelled.
• It was deleted after an infringement claim was established. See below.

While the claim is looked at, the work is not shown to anyone, including you. If the claim does not succeed, this costs you nothing: your access clock is stopped, and every day it is down is added back when the work returns.

Nothing has been decided at that point. A claim is a claim, and the person who uploaded the work has the right to answer it. We email you when there is an outcome, either way.

• If the claim is dropped or not pursued, the work comes back and your access is restored and extended by however long it was suspended. A claim that fails costs you none of the time you paid for.
• If the infringement is established, or nobody answers the claim, the suspension becomes permanent, the work is deleted, and your recourse is against the seller — who was paid directly.

There are two very different things here, and only one of them is about you.

Revoked — for a breach of the Selling Terms by you: getting round the paywall by technical means, using somebody else's access or handing yours to someone else, or republishing a work you bought. If that happens, access ends, your account can be closed, and nothing is refunded, because the payment was final when you made it.

Ended — because the work can no longer be served: an infringement claim against it was established, or BSVSearch has stopped operating. That is not a revocation and it is not about anything you did. BSVSearch will say so plainly when it happens.

Nothing else you do puts your access at risk.

Anyone with an account here who is 18 or older and legally able to enter into a contract. Creating an account is free.

Free articles need nothing more. To charge for your work, add a BSV address to your account with the purpose Payments for my articles first: that is where readers' payments go. You accept the Creator Terms when you first submit, and every work is reviewed before readers see it.

Submit it as a Creations article, set your price in satoshis, choose how long buyers get access for, and say whether AI training use is allowed. You accept the Creator Terms when you submit, and the version you accepted is recorded.

Submissions are reviewed before readers can buy them.

Nothing. Submitting a work to Creations is free.

Directly, at the moment of sale. A buyer's wallet pays yours — there is no payout schedule, no threshold and no withdrawal, because BSVSearch never holds the money in the first place.

What you need is a BSV address on your profile with the purpose Payments for my articles. Add one under BSV addresses on your account.

The price box is greyed out because the site does not yet know where to send your money. A paid article pays the reader's satoshis straight to a BSV address you control — the site never holds them — so before you can charge for anything you need one address on file for your articles.

On your profile, add a BSV address and choose the purpose Payments for my articles. Once it is saved, open the article again: the price, access period and licence options are unlocked. We also email your account to confirm the address was added — if you did not add it, contact us straight away. Free articles never need this.

Between 2000 satoshis and 2000000 satoshis for an article.

The minimum exists because both payments have to be amounts a wallet will actually send — it is wallet minimum-send tolerance that bites, not anything the network itself imposes. The fee already reserves 1000 satoshis of headroom on BSVSearch's side, and 2000 gives yours the same. At the minimum price the fee is half; at 5000 satoshis it is a fifth; at 10000 and above it is the 10%.

Yes, for now. An article can cost at most 2000000 satoshis to read, and at least 2000 (so that both the payment to the writer and the site's share clear the smallest amount wallets will send).

The upper limit is not a permanent rule. Everyone here — writers, readers and the site — is still getting used to BSV, to the site, and to wallets and other BSV tools, and a ceiling means nobody has a large sum riding on a wrong address, a wallet quirk or a plain typo while that is going on. It may be raised as the tools and the site prove themselves.

The limit is checked only when you save an article; articles already published are not affected by a change to it.

The price, minus the platform fee — 10% of the price or 1000 satoshis, whichever is greater — plus the small unique offset the buyer's payment to you carries, so what lands in your wallet is a few satoshis above price-minus-fee.

You are shown what you will receive before you set a price.

On the article, tick Offer a reuse licence for this work, choose the tier, set the Licence price (satoshis), and choose the release deadline buyers get — 6 months or 1 year.

Two things must be in place first. You need a BSV address saved for receiving payments — the same one that unlocks the price box — and you must have accepted Creator Terms v1.2 or later. Acceptance is recorded once, at submission, so a work submitted under 1.0 or 1.1 cannot carry a licence.

The money works like access: the same 2000 to 2000000 satoshi range, the same platform fee of 10% or 1000 satoshis whichever is greater, and the same two payments.

You see the buyer's username against your sales. The site is set not to show either of you the other’s email address.

The payment note the site suggests to a buyer's wallet is set to carry only an invoice reference — not the title of the work. Anything written into a transaction is public forever.

Your sales on your own account, with a CSV export.

Yes, and it affects new sales only. Every existing purchase keeps its own copy of the price, so changing your price never changes what somebody already bought.

It stops new sales, takes the work out of the Creations listing and the search index, and replaces the public preview with a short line saying the work is no longer available.

Everyone who already bought it reads it exactly as before, and their access clock is not touched or paused. You can put it back on sale at any time, and it does not need reviewing again.

There is no delete route for it. Withdrawing is the supported way to stop selling a work, and everyone who already paid keeps reading it until their access period ends.

BSVSearch does not delete a work while anybody’s access period on it is still running. If you want to leave BSVSearch, your account is blocked and your works are withdrawn from sale; they are deleted, if you ask, only after the last access period on them has ended. The one exception is an infringement claim that is established: then the work is deleted, and its buyers are told.

Once the last access period on it has ended, you can also archive it yourself: that takes it off the site without deleting anything. See Can I archive my own work?

A substantive edit goes through review again, the same as a new submission. While it waits, nothing changes for your buyers: the version they paid for stays published and readable, their access clocks run on, and no email goes out. When a reviewer clears your edit, the new text replaces the old one.

Only BSVSearch taking the work down stops your buyers reading it — that pauses every buyer's clock and tells them, and when the work is cleared again the time is added back. You can archive the work yourself only once nobody holds access to it.

Yes, once nobody holds access to it. Open the work to edit it and use the Archive tab.

For an article, the site checks that:

• no access period to it is running or paused, whether bought directly or through a subscription to a collection it is in or was in;
• no reuse licence's access to it is still running;
• no payment for it is still on its way.

For a collection, it checks that:

• nobody holds a subscription to it;
• no payment for one is on its way;
• no article in it is for subscribers only.

If somebody does hold access, the site refuses and tells you why. Withdraw it from sale instead. You can archive it once their access periods have ended.

Archiving takes the work off the site. Nothing is deleted: it stays in your account as it was, with its earlier versions. When you archive a collection, the articles in it stay published on their own. On a free article, withdrawing only takes it out of the listings and search, while archiving hides the article itself.

To bring it back, open it to edit, set "Change to" to Admin to Review and save, as when you first published it. It goes back up when a reviewer clears it.

Yes — set it up under Subscription offer on your profile. You choose one access period (1 month / 30 days, 3 months / 90 days, 6 months / 180 days, or 1 year / 365 days) and one price, and it covers your whole paid catalogue.

While somebody's access period runs, they can read everything you charge for, including anything you publish during it.

You can also offer subscriptions to your collections — see How do I start a collection?

Open the form for one of your articles: under "Appears in", if you have no collections yet, use Create one. Give the collection a title, a kind (newspaper, magazine, newsletter, blog, book, series or other), a description that tells readers what it is and how often something new arrives, an optional cover, a subscription price and access period, and the order its articles are listed in. You accept the Creator Terms when you create it, and the version you accepted is recorded with it.

A collection is reviewed before readers see it, like an article. Anyone who can sell articles here can create one.

On the article’s form, tick its collections under "Appears in". An article can be in more than one of your collections, and only in your own. In a collection ordered by hand, "Position" sets its place — lower numbers come first. Like any edit to a published article, the change takes effect once it is cleared.

An article you add opens to every live subscriber at once, and they are emailed about it. An article you take out is no longer offered to new subscribers; everyone whose access period was already running keeps reading it until that period ends.

Between 2000 and 100000000 satoshis for one access period, or 0 for a free collection that readers can browse without subscribing. The platform fee is the same as for an article — 10% of the price or 1000 satoshis, whichever is greater — and it comes out of the price. Above one million satoshis the form asks you to confirm the price once, in case of a typing slip.

A price change applies to subscriptions sold after it, never to one already running. A priced collection is offered to readers only once at least one article is in it.

It stops the article being sold on its own: only subscribers to a priced collection it appears in, or to your whole catalogue, can read it. It needs at least one priced collection ticked under "Appears in", and the article’s own price must be 0. If you later try to make its last priced collection free, the site asks you to untick "Subscribers only" first, so the article never becomes free by accident.

Yes: open the collection and use "Withdraw from sale". From then on nobody new can subscribe to it. Everyone who already subscribed keeps reading what they could read until their access period ends, and their clock is not paused.

The articles in it are not touched — any you sell on their own stay on sale. You can put the collection back on sale at any time with "Put back on sale", and nothing needs reviewing again.

A collection cannot be deleted while anyone’s access period on it is running. Withdraw it instead; it can be deleted once the last access period has ended.

Once nobody holds a subscription to it, no payment for one is on its way and no article in it is for subscribers only, you can also archive it yourself: the collection comes off the site and the articles in it stay published. See Can I archive my own work?

They keep what they paid for. Everyone whose access period is running — on your catalogue or on one of your collections — keeps reading everything they could read, until their access period ends. That holds whatever you do afterwards: withdraw works, take articles out of a collection, empty it, stop publishing, or leave BSVSearch. By selling an access period you licensed BSVSearch to keep serving those works to everyone who paid, until the last of their access periods has ended (Creator Terms, section 3).

Withdrawing stops new sales, including new subscriptions. Somebody who subscribes after you withdraw a work will not see it.

Nothing you do pauses an access period. Only a rights claim, or BSVSearch taking a work or collection down, does that: the clock stops, and the time is given back when it returns.

File a notice at Report an infringement. It asks for what a claim needs and puts your notice in front of a person.

Filing does not take anything down by itself. A person reads it and decides. If it is accepted, the work is held while it is looked at, and the person who uploaded it gets the chance to answer.

If the form will not take your claim — it limits how many can be filed from one place in an hour — email takedown@bsvsearch.com instead. A claim sent that way is treated exactly the same.

The work is held — not shown to anyone — while the claim is looked at. Everybody who already bought it has their access clock stopped, so a claim that does not succeed costs them no paid time.

You get a statement of reasons carrying the claim in full, and the name of the person making it, and 14 calendar days to answer it.

• If you answer, your counter-notice goes to the claimant in full, exactly as you wrote it. They then have 14 calendar days to show they have started legal action — not simply to say they intend to. If they do not, the work goes back up by itself and every buyer's paid time is repaid.
• If you do not answer, the claim stands unopposed, it is treated as established, and the work is deleted. A person here presses that button — nothing deletes on a timer — but the outcome is the same, and an established infringement is recorded against your account.

Not by Creations. Creations does not inscribe works on the blockchain and does not serve them from it: what you sell here is stored by BSVSearch and served from here.

You may place your own work on the blockchain yourself. That is your own act, done with your own keys, and it changes nothing about what you sold here. If you do, that copy is publicly readable by anyone who finds it, and buyers here never bought exclusivity over it.

⚠ A takedown cannot erase an inscription. Taking a work down removes BSVSearch’s copy and stops it being served here; the inscription stays on a public chain that BSVSearch does not control. If erasure is the outcome you need, this process cannot give it to you.

We would give reasonable notice where circumstances allow, so creators can retrieve their works and buyers can download what they have access to. No refunds arise from cessation — BSVSearch never holds funds.

They are versioned rather than amended. The version in force when you buy is recorded with your purchase and continues to govern it, and a new version applies only to purchases made after it takes effect.

You can see every document you have accepted, and when, under Documents you accepted on your account.

Not yet. These terms cover purchases made by people, through the website. When machine buying is offered it will be covered by a new version of the Selling Terms rather than bolted onto this one.

Some free articles show the writer's BSV address and a QR code, so you can send them satoshis directly if the piece was worth something to you. On a wide screen it appears in a Tip card beside the article, with a Copy address button, and again in the Tip the author box at the end. On a phone, the Tip the writer ↓ line under the author's name takes you to it. It is the same address everywhere.

Tipping is optional. The article is free either way, and nothing on the page changes whether you tip or not.

No account is needed. Open your own BSV wallet, scan the QR code or copy the address, and send the amount you choose. There is no minimum and no suggested amount on our side; your wallet may have its own minimum, and the network fee is paid by your wallet as with any payment.

You never connect a wallet to this site or type a key into it. The QR code is drawn in your own browser.

No. A tip goes from your wallet straight to the writer's address. BSVSearch takes no fee and never holds the satoshis. What the site does is show the address and, later, read the blockchain to count what arrived at it.

No. A tip is an ordinary payment on the blockchain from your wallet to someone else's address. Once sent it cannot be cancelled or reversed, and because the money never passes through BSVSearch, there is nothing here that could refund it.

No. When the writer saves the address, the site checks that it is a well-formed BSV address and that no other page on the site uses it. It does not check who controls it. A tip sent to a wrong or out-of-date address cannot be recovered by us.

Usually nothing is wrong:

• Only confirmed transactions are counted, so a tip is not counted until it is in a block.
• The figures are brought up to date in the background, usually within several hours, not live. The box says when they were last updated.
• If the site cannot reach the blockchain, it keeps the last figures it had rather than guessing.

Your payment is on the blockchain whatever this page shows. You can see it in your own wallet or on any block explorer.

• Satoshis received: what was paid to the address since the writer added it here.
• Tips: how many transactions paid it. One transaction counts as one tip.
• Distinct tippers: how many different sending addresses those tips came from. It counts addresses, not people, so one person can count more than once, and a sender the site could not identify is not counted.

The site writes these figures from the blockchain; nobody types them in, including the writer. They are figures for interest, not an audited account.

No. Every BSV transaction is public and permanent: the amount and both addresses can be read by anyone. BSVSearch does not link a tip to an account and does not learn who sent it, but anyone who can connect an address to you can connect the tip to you.

Edit your free article and fill in the BSV Tipping Address field. The tipping box appears on the article once you save. The figures in it are written by the site; you never fill them in.

Use a BSV address beginning with 1: BSV accepts only the original Bitcoin addresses starting with a 1. Paymail handles and addresses from other blockchains cannot be used. The site checks the address for typos when you save, but it cannot check that the address is yours, so check it yourself before and after saving: a tip sent to a wrong address cannot be recovered.

When you save the address, the site notes the current block height and counts only transactions confirmed after it. Anything the address received before that is never counted.

From that moment on, every payment to the address is counted, whatever it was for. That includes payments from elsewhere and change from your own spends if your wallet returns change to the same address. So use a fresh address created only for this article. It also keeps the rest of your wallet out of public view, because everything sent to and from a published address can be read by anyone.

Tipping is for free articles only, and the site will not save a priced article with a tipping address.

To put a price on an article that has a tipping address, clear the address and save. The tip figures counted so far are kept, and come back if the article is made free again and given an address.

Another page on this site already uses it. Every article needs its own address, because a shared one would mix the figures of both pages. The message does not say which page uses it. Use a fresh address.

BSVSearch does not withhold anything from a tip and cannot give tax advice. What you owe on tip income, if anything, is for you and your tax authority.

Change: save the new address. The satoshis and tips counted on the old one are kept and added to what the new one receives, so the totals shown do not go back to zero. Distinct tippers starts again from zero, because it counts the current address only. A reader who still has the old address on screen may send to it after you changed it; that payment reaches the old address (yours if you still hold its key) but is not counted here.

Remove: clear the field and save. The tipping box comes off the article and counting stops. The figures counted so far are kept and shown again if you add an address later.

Every change is recorded on the site: the old address, the figures kept from it, and the date.