DMCA & takedown policy

Reporting content, and how takedowns work here

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How to report a specific inscription, what we can and can't do about it, and the formal notice-and-counter-notice process. It isn't a lawyer's document (see the terms page for that caveat generally).

What this site actually shows

Nothing on this dashboard is uploaded to us. An inscription is content someone else wrote permanently onto the Bitcoin blockchain, at a time of their choosing, before we ever saw it. We show it two ways: the live viewer draws it straight from our own ord index when you open it, and the Gallery keeps a small cached picture of recursive or HTML pieces so its cards load quickly. "Taking something down" here means turning off both of those on this site: it cannot reach the transaction itself, which is what permanent means on a blockchain. If your goal is to have the underlying content erased everywhere, this page can't do that for you; nobody can.

Report a specific inscription

Every inscription this dashboard renders opens through one shared viewer, and its "Report this inscription" link brings you here with that inscription's ID already filled in below. You can also just paste an inscription ID or a page URL into the message yourself.

What is it Report content / copyright (DMCA) Something else about this page Your report How to reach you (needed for a formal notice; optional otherwise) Website

Sending this stores what you wrote, and the contact line if you filled it in, and posts it to a private channel on our Discord so the people who build this can read it. Deleted after 12 months, or sooner if you ask. Privacy

Send report

If what you're reporting is child sexual abuse material, or anything else that endangers a child: don't describe it, link it, or paste it in above. Report it directly to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's CyberTipline (report.cybertip.org) or your local law enforcement. Separately from any report we receive, this is content we refuse to inscribe for anyone and disable and report ourselves the moment we have actual knowledge of it, whether or not it was ever reported to us first.

What happens after a report

Two independent controls, both checked when a report comes in:

• Our own hidden list (a file on this server, not a database row that could get lost in a migration): once an inscription ID is added to it, the ID stops resolving on this site's own content and preview routes, in the Gallery's grid, and in the viewer, and any thumbnail already cached for it is blanked out the next time that job runs, within about 15 minutes, so a stale cached picture doesn't keep showing after everything else has stopped. This is ours to change immediately and doesn't depend on anything else being reachable.
• Our ord index's own hidden-content list: ord ships a separate configuration file for exactly this, which its own maintainers recommend every public explorer use. It's a second, independent gate at the node level, edited on the machine itself and applied on its next restart.

Neither one reaches Bitcoin. The transaction that inscribed the content is still there, and any other explorer or node not run by us will still show it: that's true of every ordinals explorer, not a limitation specific to this site.

Formal DMCA notice

If you're the copyright owner (or authorized to act for them) and want to send a takedown notice under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3), it needs to include, in writing:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized to act on their behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed.
3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough detail to find it here: an inscription ID and, ideally, the page it appears on is enough.
4. Your contact information: at least a name, an address, and either a phone number or an email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn't authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the above is accurate and that you're authorized to act for the copyright owner.

Send it to the designated agent below once one is registered; until then, use the form above and include all six elements in the message, since that's the channel we can act on today.

Designated agent

We have not yet completed the Copyright Office's designated-agent registration required for formal DMCA safe-harbor status (a short, inexpensive filing that we haven't filed yet). Until it's on file, send a notice through the form above rather than to a named agent: we still act on it the same way, we just don't yet carry the formal §512 protections that registration provides.

Counter-notice

If something of yours was taken down and you believe that was a mistake or a case of mistaken identity, you can send a counter-notice with:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and where it appeared before that happened.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and phone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where your address is (or, if outside the US, any district where we may be found), and that you'll accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.

Send it the same way as a notice above. If it's proper, we'll forward it to whoever filed the original notice; unless they tell us within 10–14 business days that they've filed a court action seeking to restrain you from the activity, we'll restore or re-enable the material.

Repeat infringers

Anyone using this site's minting or collection-curation features to submit content gets a warning on a first credible copyright complaint against something they submitted. A second puts the account up for review, and a person then decides whether it loses access to those features. A person does this, not the software: each complaint is checked against the account that submitted the content and kept on record, and nothing is taken away automatically. That's the extent of what "repeat infringer" can mean for us: we have no account or upload system for viewing inscriptions, and we don't control who inscribes what on Bitcoin independently of this site: there's no account of ours to close for content we never touched.

Changes

This page may change as the dashboard does, and certainly will once the designated-agent registration above is filed. The date below is when it was last revised.