your art, stored on bitcoin. permanently. free.
i walk artists through inscribing their work on bitcoin and cover the inscription costs. once inscribed, the work’s exact bytes are held by tens of thousands of computers around the world. after that nobody (including the artist) can alter or delete them. there is no server to keep running and no subscription that can lapse and no platform shutting down can take the work with it.
this is a personal project, done on my own time and my own money, curated by me alone. it costs accepted artists nothing.
what you get
- a permanent record. the exact file, inscribed on bitcoin as an ordinals inscription.
- proof. a small verification file that lets anyone, forever, confirm the inscribed work against bitcoin itself. no trust in me or any website required.
- a registry entry. every preserved work is listed in the fund’s public registry. this includes the work, the artist, the record, and who holds what.
- my time. setup is a conversation and not the kind of form you fill out and forget. see below.
sell it anywhere, store it on bitcoin
if you sell your work as a token, on ethereum or any other chain, we can point your token directly at its bitcoin record using an emerging open standard (ord: addressing). your token stops depending on some company’s image server and collectors can verify they are seeing the real work no matter what happens to any website, marketplace, or the fund itself. the inscription is the storage and your token is the thing you sell. the two stay cleanly separate.
what i’ll walk you through
the ordinals protocol has depth and part of what the fund offers is a guided tour of the setup that fits your work. depending on what you are making, that can include parent-child structures (an onchain signature your future works accrue under), recursion, sat hunting (placing your work on a notable satoshi), delegation and editions, and permanent onchain credits. if none of those words mean anything to you, that’s fine. the walkthrough exists for exactly that. if all of them do, come argue with me about setup.
two ways to hold it
some artists want the inscription itself as the collectible. you keep it, you can sell it on ordinals marketplaces, done. others sell a token on another chain and want one clean story for collectors. in that case the fund holds the inscribed sat in a published archive under a standing policy: archived sats are never sold, and you can ask for yours back at any time, on the public record. one rule keeps everyone honest: one sellable object per work.
submissions
i read everything but i can’t take everything. selection is curatorial and slow by design because this is one person inscribing work that deserves permanence. original work only: before anything is inscribed we will go through provenance together because inscription is forever and i don’t put anything on bitcoin that isn’t yours to give.
the fine print
- the storage fund is a personal patronage project. it is not a company, gallery, or agent, and it is not a registered organization of any kind. support given to the fund is a personal gift.
- acceptance is at my sole discretion, capacity is limited, and i may not be able to respond to every submission.
- you keep your copyright. always. inscription is a preservation copy you license the fund to make. it transfers no ownership of anything.
- “preserved on bitcoin” means the exact bytes of the inscribed file are permanently recorded and independently verifiable for as long as the bitcoin network exists. it does not mean ownership, copyright, a guarantee that any marketplace will display the work, or anything at all about value or price.
- inscription is irreversible. once confirmed it cannot be edited or removed, which is the point, and also why we are careful going in.
- nothing here is financial, legal, or tax advice, and the fund’s registry is documentation, not endorsement or appraisal.
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