every work the fund preserves is recorded here. what was inscribed, who holds what, and everything you need to check it for yourself. entries go up once an inscription confirms and they are not edited afterward. if something needs correcting, the correction is added as a new dated line and the original stays where it is.
what each entry records
- the work. title, artist, and year, as the artist wants them written.
- the inscription. its id, and the block it confirmed in.
- the fingerprint. the sha256 of the exact inscribed bytes.
- size and type. how many bytes were stored, and what kind of file they are.
- custody. who holds the inscribed sat. either the artist, or the fund archive.
- the proof. a small file that ties the inscribed bytes to bitcoin itself, downloadable with every entry.
- the cost. when it was inscribed, at what fee rate, and what it cost the fund.
checking an entry yourself
you do not have to trust this page. every entry carries the inscription id and the sha256 of the bytes that were stored. fetch the content from any ordinals gateway you like, hash it, and compare it to what is written here. that check needs no bitcoin infrastructure and nobody's permission, and it catches any gateway that serves you something other than the real thing.
the proof file goes further. it ties those exact bytes to bitcoin's proof of work and can be verified offline, years from now, with open-source tools and no working website anywhere in the picture. that is the whole point of doing this on bitcoin rather than on a server.
on costs being public
each entry lists what the inscription cost. the fund is small and self-funded, and publishing the spend is the simplest way to show where the money went and how far it goes. it is also useful to artists deciding what to submit, since cost tracks file size and the fee market rather than anything about the work.