The Fine Print (in plain English)

We want you to actually read this page, so we wrote it like humans. Each section starts with the plain version. The short of it:

Education, not advice

Everything on this site exists to help you understand how Bitcoin works — nothing more. We are not financial advisors, investment advisors, brokers, accountants, or attorneys, and nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. We don't know your situation, your income, or your risk tolerance, and we are not telling you to buy, sell, or hold anything. Bitcoin's price can drop fast and stay down; never put in money you can't afford to lose. Before making decisions with real money, talk to professionals who work for you — a licensed financial advisor, accountant, or attorney who knows your circumstances.

Self-custody is a responsibility, not just a slogan

We teach self-custody because we believe in it. But holding your own keys means you are the security department. Bitcoin transactions cannot be reversed. There is no customer-service line, no password reset, and no fraud department. If keys are lost, the bitcoin is lost; if bitcoin is sent to a wrong address, it is gone. Practice with small amounts first, test your backups, and move slowly. If you follow a guide on this site and something goes wrong, we genuinely wish we could fix it — but we can't, and we are not responsible for lost funds. That is the honest deal of self-custody, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

We're not affiliated with anyone we mention

ArkansasBitcoin.org is an independent, volunteer-driven education project.

• The State of Arkansas. We are proud Arkansans and our branding leans into Arkansas heritage — the diamond, the Natural State, the spirit of keep what you find. That is homage, not affiliation. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the State of Arkansas, any Arkansas state agency, or any Arkansas state park — including Crater of Diamonds State Park. "Keep what you find" on this site is a self-custody metaphor, not a claim of any connection to the park or its policies.
• Products and companies. We name real products (for example Strike, Blockstream Jade, Coinkite Coldcard, Phoenix, Bitkey) because you can't teach with vague hand-waving. Those names and trademarks belong to their owners. We mention them to describe them — nothing more. None of these companies sponsors us, pays us, or reviews what we write.
• No kickbacks. We have no sponsorships, no affiliate links, and no referral income. When you buy a wallet we mention, we get nothing. If that ever changes, we will say so plainly on this page.

No guarantees

We work hard to keep this site accurate and current, but Bitcoin moves fast and we are human. The site and everything on it is provided as is, with no warranties of any kind — no guarantee that it is complete, current, or error-free. To the fullest extent Arkansas law allows, we are not liable for any loss or damage that comes from using this site or relying on anything in it.

Tips and support

If this project helps you and you send sats, thank you — that is what keeps it running. Two things to be clear about:

• Tips are voluntary gifts, not payments. You get nothing in return except our gratitude and more free education for Arkansas.
• We are not a charity. Tips are not charitable donations and are not tax-deductible.

A note on how tips reach us: we don't ask for your name and we don't try to figure out who tipped us. Tips arrive through a Lightning payment processor; what it can see is governed by its own privacy policy.

Our content and our mark

• The writing: except where noted, the written educational content on this site is © the ArkansasBitcoin.org project and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Share it, teach from it, translate it, build on it — just credit "ArkansasBitcoin.org" with a link back, and share what you make under the same license. That last part is deliberate: this material stays free for the next person, no matter whose hands it passes through.
• The code: the site's source code — page scripts, the interactive visualizers, and the page structure itself — is separately licensed under the MIT License. Use it, learn from it, build with it.
• The diamond: the Arkansas Diamond logo, the coin artwork, and the site's name and look are not part of either license. All rights reserved. Please don't use them to brand your own project, product, or page — that's how people get confused about who is speaking.

Privacy

Short version: we don't want your data.

• No accounts, no sign-ups, no email list, no tracking cookies.
• We count page views and clicks with a cookie-free analytics tool (Umami) that we run ourselves, showing anonymous, aggregate numbers — "the self-custody page got 40 visits this week," not who you are.
• If you send a tip, we don't ask for your name and we don't try to figure out who tipped us. Tips arrive through a Lightning payment processor; what it can see is governed by its own privacy policy.
• Links to other sites leave our hands — their privacy practices are their own.

Changes to this page

If we ever need to update this page, the new version will be posted here with the date it took effect. Effective date of this version: July 5, 2026.

Governing law

This site is published from Arkansas, USA. These terms are governed by Arkansas law, and any dispute about them belongs in the courts of Arkansas.

Questions

Questions about this page, our content, or anything on the site: matthew@arkansasbitcoin.org. A real person reads it.