Questions people actually ask
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Looking at the art costs nothing. A Bitcoin transaction cannot be undone by anyone, including us, so everything that costs money is spelled out before your wallet opens.
If you read one thing
The short version.
- A KNOT HEAD is one of 1,110 hand inked portraits, inscribed whole onto Bitcoin.
- The published price is 0.000110 BTC, plus the miner fee for your own transaction. Every figure is on screen before your wallet opens.
- You sign and pay once for one canonical delegate inscription. After verified activation finality, that same inscription resolves automatically to its precommitted SVG.
What is a KNOT HEAD, exactly?
One of 1,110 hand inked portraits of a Bitcoin node runner, inscribed whole onto Bitcoin as a self contained SVG. One wobbling pen line over flat riso colour. Beards, tinfoil hats, BIP-110 caps, coke bottle glasses, and whichever single board computer is humming in the corner.
Can I see the art before I mint?
You can browse clearly labelled style specimens for free. They are not any of the 1,110 committed final artworks. Before reveal, your canonical inscription has no available target content and every mint uses the same generic seal.
Does my address decide which head I get?
No. Your wallet pays and receives, and that is all it does. The hidden assignment is cryptographically committed before minting and cannot be changed later. A fancy address does not buy a rarer head.
What exactly does a mint secure?
One user-owned canonical delegate inscription at your Ordinals address. Before activation its target content is unavailable. After verified activation reaches finality, that same inscription automatically resolves to the precommitted SVG.
What does it cost, and what else do I pay?
The published price is 11,000 sats, 0.000110 BTC, for one head. The review also shows the miner fee, postage, automatic reveal funding and maximum total before your wallet opens. You sign and pay once. There is no later delivery transaction, signature or payment. Miner fees are not refundable, by us or by anyone.
Can I mint before BIP-110 activation?
Yes. You mint the canonical delegate inscription now. BIP-110 activation controls when its precommitted target can be broadcast and resolved; it does not require you to return.
Will you ever ask for my seed phrase?
Never, under any circumstance. KNOT HEADS asks for public addresses and for signatures you approve inside your own wallet, and nothing else. Anyone asking you for a seed phrase, recovery words, a private key or a wallet export file while claiming to be us is stealing from you, including in a direct message that looks official.
When do I learn my traits and rarity?
After BIP-110 activation is verified at the required finality and the precommitted target confirms. The same canonical inscription then resolves to its SVG, traits and rarity, with public binding and content-hash proofs.
Is there a date for BIP-110 activation?
No, and there will not be one on this site. BIP-110 activation is the public event that reveals the image. You can mint before it happens.
What if my transaction stalls?
Open your private mint tracker. It keeps preparation, broadcast, network acceptance, confirmation depth, reorg watch and indexing as separate stages, so a slow fee market is never confused with a failed broadcast. Most stalls clear on their own as the mempool drains. The link survives a page refresh in the same browser, and an order ID plus a public transaction ID is enough to diagnose the rest.
What happens if a chain reorg hits my mint?
Your order goes back to reconciling and waits, and the tracker says so in words: the reorg stage is marked as one to read again, and it tells you not to act on the previous result. A first confirmation is not finality, which is why a number is only final at the configured confirmation depth. Nothing is re-rolled behind your back. If the transaction does not survive, the number is released back to the pool rather than quietly kept.
Can I sell one, and where?
It is yours to sell, and this site is not part of that. A KNOT HEAD is an ordinary Ordinals inscription held at your own address, so it moves on the same rails as any other inscription and KNOT HEADS never takes custody of it or lists anything for you. Wherever you trade, read the whole PSBT before you sign: the inscription outpoint, the price, the fees, both sides of the outputs, and where ownership ends up. Nobody can promise you resale demand, and we are not going to try.
When does my inscription show its artwork?
You do nothing. After activation finality, the service broadcasts the fixed precommitted target automatically. The canonical inscription already in your wallet begins resolving to the final SVG. No ownership message, second PSBT, additional signature or later payment is required.
For the technical: what to check, and where
None of the answers above needs to be taken on trust. Each one rests on something you can read yourself.
- The set was locked first
- The commitment is published before minting opens: a manifest hash, a merkle root, a commitment hash, a generator hash and a metadata schema hash. The reveal monitor prints whichever ones the service has published, and says so in words when it has not.
- The hidden mapping cannot be changed later
- Assignment and future-target roots are published before minting. After reveal, the verifier checks the mint-to-target and target-to-art proofs against those roots; no seed block or post-mint shuffle selects the result.
- The bytes are the bytes
- Every head is a self contained SVG with a content hash anyone can recompute against what is recorded on chain.
- Your own mint
- The transaction review shows every input and output plus the SHA-256 of the exact unsigned transaction, and your private tracker keeps preparation, broadcast, network acceptance, confirmation depth, reorg watch and indexing apart.
If something goes wrong
Keep two things, and only two.
Your mint ID and the public transaction ID are enough to diagnose any mint anywhere. Your private tracker keeps preparation, broadcast, network acceptance, confirmation depth, reorg watch and indexing as separate stages, so most of the time you can read the answer yourself before you ask anybody for it.
What nobody should ever ask you for
- A seed phrase, a recovery phrase or backup words. Never, for any reason.
- A private key or a wallet export file.
- A fully signed PSBT sent to a person instead of broadcast.
- A wallet validation, sync, migration or claim page that wants those words typed in.
- Payment to an address that did not appear in your transaction review.
Anyone asking for anything on that list while claiming to be KNOT HEADS support is stealing from you, however convincing the profile looks. We never message first, and there is no official chat, group or account for anybody to hide inside. When in doubt, close it and come back by typing the address yourself.