Read first. Pay once.
Things people keep asking through the basement door.
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 you send anything.
If you read one thing
The short version.
the important bit- A KNOT HEAD is one of 1,110 algorithmically generated portraits, inscribed whole onto Bitcoin.
- The mint price is 11,000 sats. The exact payment amount is shown before you pay.
- Sign one payment with a supported Bitcoin wallet. Your KNOT HEAD is inscribed straight to your own address. No second payment, no waiting for a date.
What is a KNOT HEAD, exactly?
One of 1,110 algorithmically generated portraits of a Bitcoin node runner, inscribed whole onto Bitcoin as a self contained SVG. A wobbling pen-line effect over flat riso colour. Beards, tinfoil hats, red caps, coke bottle glasses, and whichever single board computer is humming in the corner.
How many exist?
1,110. That is the whole collection, it was hashed and ordered before minting opened, and nobody can add one. When the last one confirms, that is it, permanently.
Is the artwork on Bitcoin?
Yes. Each head is a self contained SVG inscribed whole onto Bitcoin. No hosting, no external font, no server of ours in the loop. If this website disappears, your KNOT HEAD does not.
Do I need to come back later?
No. Mint it, receive it, done. One payment, one inscription, yours forever. There is no second step, no claim page and nothing to watch for.
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 final artworks. Which head you get is fixed by the address you pay, and you see the head itself the moment it lands in your wallet.
Does my address decide which head I get?
Your destination address does not. Which head you get is decided by the address you pay, and every address was committed to before minting opened. Your own payment is the proof of which one you chose. A fancy destination address does not buy a rarer head.
What do I receive?
One ordinary Ordinals inscription carrying the whole artwork, held at the Ordinals destination address you chose. It is yours from the transaction that creates it, and we never hold it.
What does it cost, and what else do I pay?
The mint price is 11,000 sats. The exact payment amount is shown before you pay.
Do I have to connect a wallet?
No. Connect a supported Bitcoin wallet to review and sign one RBF-enabled payment. Your keys never leave the wallet. Connecting only saves you pasting an address.
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.
Where are my traits and rarity?
The moment your payment confirms, the inscription is built and broadcast to the address you gave. You do not sign anything else and you are not charged again. The artwork, its traits and its rarity are all readable as soon as an indexer has seen the inscription at your address.
Why all the Luke and spam jokes?
KNOT HEADS was born out of one of Bitcoin's great arguments about what belongs in Bitcoin. The argument is over. The heads are still on Bitcoin, which was rather the point. Every head is a portrait of somebody who kept a node running through it: the beard, the tinfoil, the loud fan, the cat on the Pi. BLOCKED BY LUKE is satire of relay-policy arguments, not a description of anything that happens to your mint.
What if I send the wrong amount?
Send less than the amount shown and nothing is minted; the payment is returned to your refund address. Send more and the difference comes back as change in the same transaction. There is one exception worth knowing: a payment so small that returning it would cost more in miner fees than the payment is worth cannot be refunded at all, which is why the checkout names that floor and asks you not to send a test amount.
What if my transaction stalls?
The mint screen keeps watching it. It tells the difference between a payment nobody has mined yet and a payment that never arrived, and it never calls a slow fee market a failure. Most stalls clear on their own as the mempool drains, and nothing is asked of you while you wait.
What happens if a chain reorg hits my mint?
The chain is treated as the authority, not our database. If the block carrying your payment is reorganised away, the order goes back to waiting for that payment and says so; if the block carrying your inscription is reorganised away, the exact same transaction is broadcast again rather than a new one being built. Nothing is re-rolled behind your back and no head is quietly given to somebody else.
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.
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. Every one of them pins something that could otherwise have been changed quietly afterwards.
- The assignment cannot be changed later
- Which artwork belongs to which payment address is committed to a published root before minting opens. Paying an address is therefore the choice, and moving the assignment afterwards would require a different address than the one you already paid.
- 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
- One address and one exact amount, and the mint screen keeps the payment sighting, its confirmation depth and the inscription broadcast as separate facts, each with the transaction ID to check it yourself.
If something goes wrong
Keep two things, and only two.
Your order ID and the public transaction ID of your payment are enough to diagnose any mint anywhere. The mint screen keeps the payment sighting, its confirmation depth and the inscription broadcast as separate facts, 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 other than the single one your own mint screen showed you.
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.
Questions nobody asked
The other notice board.
None of this is about your mint, your money or your wallet. It is the stuff taped to the wall next to the real notices.
Is the cat included?
No. The cat is not part of the collection, is not inscribed, is not a trait, and cannot be transferred. The cat belongs to the basement and the basement belongs to nobody.
Why is the node so loud?
It has been running since before any of this was a good idea. The fan has been described as 'concerning' by two separate people. It stays.
Has anything actually been blocked by Luke?
No. BLOCKED BY LUKE is a running joke about how enthusiastic relay-policy arguments get, not a description of anything that happens to your mint. Nobody is filtering your transaction on this website's behalf.
The “Luke eats cats” thing is made up, right?
Completely. It is an internet rumour, invented and repeated for laughs, and it is used here as exactly that: a joke about how absurd forum folklore gets. It is not a claim about a real person, nobody eats anybody, and the cat in this basement is fine.
What is the blue cable for?
Unknown. It has been traced twice and both attempts ended somewhere behind the shelving. It is warm. Do not unplug it.
Can I get the basement temperature down?
You cannot. Nobody can. It is 31°C down here and the door has to stay shut because of the cat.