Bitcoin Radar shows messages that other people wrote into the Bitcoin blockchain. We did not write them, we were not paid to publish them, and we find them by scanning public blocks. This policy is about those messages: how to report one, what we do about it, and how long we take.
Messages that someone paid us to broadcast are covered by the Broadcast Terms at /broadcast/terms, which is a different relationship with different rules.
We can remove a message from Bitcoin Radar. When we do, it stops appearing in the feed, in search, in the counts, and on the home screen — everywhere in our app and on our site.
We cannot remove it from the Bitcoin blockchain. Nobody can. The blockchain is maintained by thousands of independent computers we do not control, and the message stays readable there through any block explorer whatever we do. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
So the honest description of what a report gets you is this: we stop carrying it. That is a real thing and it is the only thing we have.
Every message in the feed has a Report button. It takes you to a short form, it does not ask who you are, and you do not need an account — we do not have accounts.
You can also email abuse@bitcoinradar.app. Include the transaction id of the message so we can find it; a screenshot alone is not enough to identify one message out of thousands.
We review every report within 24 hours of receiving it. Reports of illegal content and of someone's private information are looked at first, ahead of that window rather than inside it.
A review ends one of two ways, and both are written down: we remove the message from our feed, or we decline and record why. There is no third outcome where a report is quietly left alone — if we disagree with a report, we say so on the record rather than let it expire.
We remove first and think second when a message appears to contain sexual content involving minors, a credible threat, or a real person's private information. Restoring a message we removed in haste costs nothing; leaving one of those up while we deliberate does.
If a message copies work you own or uses your mark, email abuse@bitcoinradar.app. A notice should identify the copyrighted work, identify the message by its transaction id, give us a way to reach you, and state that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised and that the information in your notice is accurate.
We will remove a message from our feed on a complete notice. We cannot remove it from the blockchain, and no takedown we perform changes what is recorded there.
We do not remove a message because it is rude, profane, political, religious, wrong, unpopular, or about a subject we would rather not carry. The feed is a record of what people put on a public ledger, and sanding it down to the inoffensive would make it a curated opinion instead of a record.
We are not a court. When a report turns on a contested question of fact — whether a statement about someone is true, whether a use is licensed — we will say what we decided and why, and we may decline. Our decision is not a legal ruling and does not pretend to be one.
We keep the transaction id, the category you chose, what you wrote, the time, and a truncated form of the network address the report came from — the first three parts only, which identifies a neighbourhood and not a person. We keep an address you give us only if you give us one; the form does not require it.
We keep the record of every removal and every decline, so the history of what we took down and why is answerable later.
Reports and takedown notices: abuse@bitcoinradar.app. Everything else: support@bitcoinradar.app.
Requests from law enforcement, including preservation requests, go to legal@bitcoinradar.app and not to this address — our Law Enforcement Guidelines are at /legal. A legal request sent here is not lost, but it waits in a queue built for a different job.
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