## Terms of Service

###### Updated: March 09, 2021

The official mempool.space website and its API service are operated by Mempool Space K.K.

This website and its API service are operated by an individual member of the Bitcoin community, who is not affiliated with Mempool Space K.K.

##### By using this website or accessing its API, you agree to these Terms of Service:

#### NO WARRANTY

This website is operated in the hope that it will be useful, but all services and data are provided on an "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE" basis, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATIONS; express or implied, without even the implied warranties of MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY, or UNINTERRUPTED SERVICE. The operators of this website make NO GUARANTEE to the accuracy of any data on this website or its API, and it is your responsibility to VERIFY ALL DATA obtained for inaccuracies and omissions.

#### NO LIABILITY

THE OPERATORS OF THIS WEBSITE WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGES, whether direct, indirect, or any other nature, that are deemed or alleged to have resulted from or been caused by this website or its contents, including, but without limitation to, errors, inaccuracies or ambiguity in this website or its contents, failures, malfunctions, delays or interruptions in operation or transmission, any persons use or misuse of this website or its content, any errors or omissions in content, damage for loss of Bitcoin or other crypto assets, loss of business, loss of profits, business interruption, loss of information, or any other pecuniary or consequential loss or damage (even if the operators of this website have been notified of such risk of loss or damage).

#### PRIVACY POLICY

Out of respect for the Bitcoin community, this website does not utilize any third-party trackers or cookies, and the operators of this website do not share any user data with third-parties. However, your IP address may be collected as part of basic webserver logs necessary for systems administration purposes, and as part of an anonymized self-hosted statistics application for analytics. To protect your privacy, use Tor browser to access this website's Tor V3 onion hostname to conceal your IP address, or alternatively install and use your own self-hosted instance of this website.

#### BITCOIN ONLY POLICY

Out of respect for the Bitcoin community, this website does not support altcoins, and is generally "Bitcoin Only". The IOU tokens for Bitcoin and fiat currencies on the Liquid network, and the BSQ colored Bitcoin for DAO governance on the Bisq Network, are not considered altcoins as they do not distract users from Bitcoin and are part of our stated mission to support the entire Bitcoin ecosystem including Bitcoin Layer 2 Networks.

#### EXTERNAL LINK POLICY

Out of respect for the Bitcoin community, this website does not display advertising, and generally does not link to external websites. However, exceptions are made for references to Bitcoin's technical documentation, for acknowledgements of individual members and open-source projects within the Bitcoin community, and for direct contributors and supporters of The Mempool Open Source Project, as follows:

- In order to refer to Bitcoin technical documentation, external links may by added where applicable, to informational websites that respect that Bitcoin community and do not display advertising, altcoins, or third-party trackers, such as bitcoin.it and bitcoin.org.
- In order to acknowledge individual contributors to The Mempool Open Source Project who have made at least 10 contributions visible on GitHub, the contributor's GitHub profile photo will automatically be displayed on mempool.space/about, with a link to their GitHub profile.
- In order to acknowledge members of the Bitcoin community who have made a one-time donation of at least 0.01 BTC to The Mempool Open Source Project on mempool.space/about, the Bitcoin community members's Twitter profile photo will automatically be displayed on mempool.space/about, with a link to their Twitter profile.
- In order to acknowledge members of the Bitcoin community who have made recurring donations of at least $100 USD per month to The Mempool Open Source Project through our GitHub Sponsors program for at least 6 months, the Bitcoin community member's GitHub profile photo will automatically be displayed on mempool.space/about, with a link to their GitHub profile.
- In order to acknowledge open source projects that benefit the Bitcoin community and have integrated The Mempool Open Source Project into their software, the open source project's logo may be displayed on mempool.space/about, with a link to the project's GitHub repository.
- In order to acknowledge federations or alliances within the Bitcoin community that have a relationship to The Mempool Open Source Project, the federation or alliance logo may be displayed on mempool.space/about, with a link to the alliance website.
- In order to acknowledge the enterprise organizations within the Bitcoin community that have made a significant one-time donation of at least $25,000 USD to The Mempool Open Source Project, the organization's logo may be displayed on mempool.space/about, with a link to the organization's website.

However, we reserve the right to remove any links from our website that in our sole discretion are inappropriate. All donations are non-refundable.

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