What a KNOT HEAD is
Every KNOT HEAD is a portrait of somebody who keeps a node up: the beard, the tinfoil hat, the BIP-110 cap, the coke bottle glasses, the small computer humming in the corner. Each one is inscribed whole onto Bitcoin as a single self contained SVG.
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The drawing
Each head is built from a single ink line laid over flat riso colour, the kind that misregisters a fraction and lets the paper show through. The line is not smoothed afterwards. Where the pen hesitated, it still hesitates.
The backgrounds come from the same world as the subjects: perfboard, server racks, terminal scroll, redaction bars. 12 trait categories decide the rest, from the beard down to which single board computer is humming in the corner. No filtering, no upscaler, no borrowed house style.
Look at the headsWhat you actually own
None of them depends on a roadmap, a promise, or this website still being here next year.
The set, target inscriptions and target-to-art mapping were committed before minting opened. Nobody can add a head, swap an assignment, or quietly re-roll a rare one after seeing who minted. When the last number confirms, that is the collection, permanently.
Your wallet signs the mint once. The canonical inscription it creates is the thing you own before and after reveal; there is no second holder claim, payment or replacement token. Its precommitted target is deliberately withheld from public APIs while the reveal condition is unresolved.
Once BIP-110 activation is witnessed and final, the prepared target reveal transaction broadcasts automatically. The Ordinals delegate relationship then makes the canonical inscription resolve to that target's self-contained SVG. Ownership and the canonical inscription ID do not change.
Your number is written into the chain in the order you turned up, and it stays there. We are not going to make a claim about price. We will tell you that anyone can check when you arrived, forever, without asking us for permission or for a database export.
Only now, the proof
The order is the whole trick. The artwork set, target inventory and assignment roots are published before anybody mints, so the answer cannot be changed after seeing who owns a number. The activation block does not generate or select the art: it unlocks automatic broadcast of the already committed target reveals.
The full collection is hashed and the commitment published before the first mint. Each mint takes the next number and holds it once the transaction reaches the configured confirmation depth, which is why a broadcast is never treated as a mint.
The reveal then waits for the BIP-110 chain condition, waits again for that condition to settle under enough blocks, and only then broadcasts the prepared target reveal transactions. The finality wait prevents a short-lived fork from releasing the collection early.
Each canonical inscription already has a committed target. As target reveals confirm, the standard delegate relationship makes the canonical inscription render the target SVG without transferring it or replacing its ID. The assignment, target membership, delegate relation and SVG hash can all be checked independently.
The commitment is not one number. It is a set of published values, each pinning a different thing that could otherwise be changed quietly after the fact.
No value is printed on this page. They are live readings, and a page that has not read them should not pretend otherwise. The reveal monitor prints whichever ones the service has published, and says so plainly when it has not.
The mint flow prepares the Bitcoin transactions needed to pay and create the canonical delegate inscription, but asks the holder for one wallet approval. Later target broadcasting is an automatic protocol step, not a second holder transaction.
Before minting opened, the ordered dataset, target inventory and assignment map were committed to published roots. No wallet, browser or operator can pick an artwork after a mint is made, while public responses still withhold the target, art and traits until resolution.
Every final artwork is an exact self contained SVG. Its SHA-256, target tapscript and fixed non-witness transaction are locked before minting, so the protected worker cannot quietly swap the bytes later.
A preparation is not a mint. A payment is not a confirmed mint. A position becomes final only at the configured confirmation depth. Ambiguous or expired prepared targets are quarantined until exact on-chain reconciliation; they are never silently reused.
Mint records, ownership, transfers and reveal assignments are checked against Bitcoin and the canonical collection index. The chain is the source of truth, not a private inventory somebody can edit.
Secondary, and load bearing
A locked collection is only worth as much as the evidence binding each SVG to its future target. The transaction protocol and hashes are part of the precommitment.
knotheads-delegated-reveal-v1 binds the offline manifest, hidden assignment, fixed target IDs, and public proof format. Immediately before broadcast, the worker recomputes the SVG hash and non-witness txid and fails closed on any mismatch.
Trait weights and final rarity are kept apart on purpose. Rarity stays sealed with the artwork until the public reveal. After it, the published dataset and its hash let anyone recompute the result and hold it against what they were shown.
The last step
The set is drawn, the count is fixed, and the exact cost is on screen before your wallet opens. The only thing left undecided is which head ends up being yours.