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The mempool.space website, the liquid.network website, their associated API services, and related network and server infrastructure (collectively, the "Website") are operated by Mempool Space K.K. in Japan ("Mempool", "We", or "Us") and self-hosted from AS142052.
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The mempool.space website, the liquid.network website, the bitcoin.gob.sv website, their associated API services, and related network and server infrastructure (collectively, the "Website") are operated by Mempool Space K.K. in Japan ("Mempool", "We", or "Us") and self-hosted from AS142052.
This website and its API service (collectively, the "Website") are operated by a member of the Bitcoin community ("We" or "Us"). Mempool Space K.K. in Japan ("Mempool") has no affiliation with the operator of this Website, and does not sponsor or endorse the information provided herein.
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By accessing this Website, you agree to the following Privacy Policy:
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USE YOUR OWN SELF-HOSTED MEMPOOL EXPLORER
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TRUSTED THIRD PARTIES ARE SECURITY HOLES
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Out of respect for the Bitcoin community, this website does not use any third-party analytics, third-party trackers, or third-party cookies, and we do not share any private user data with third-parties. Additionally, to mitigate the risk of surveillance by malicious third-parties, we self-host this website on our own hardware and network infrastructure, so there are no "hosting companies" or "cloud providers" involved with the operation of this website.
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For maximum privacy, we recommend that you use your own self-hosted instance of The Mempool Open Source Project® on your own hardware. You can easily install your own self-hosted instance of this website on a Raspberry Pi using a one-click installation method maintained by various Bitcoin fullnode distributions such as Umbrel, RaspiBlitz, MyNode, and RoninDojo. See our project's GitHub page for more details about self-hosting this website. By using your own self-hosted instance you will have maximum security, privacy and freedom since no data is collected by Mempool.
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TRUSTED FIRST PARTIES ARE ALSO SECURITY HOLES
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BROWSING THIS WEBSITE
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Out of respect for the Bitcoin community, this website does not use any first-party cookies, except to store your preferred language setting (if any). However, we do use minimal first-party analytics and logging as needed for the operation of this website, as follows:
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Out of respect for the Bitcoin community, this Website does not use any third-party analytics, third-party trackers, or third-party cookies, and we do not share any private user data with third-parties. Additionally, to mitigate the risk of surveillance by malicious third-parties, we self-host this Website on our own hardware and network infrastructure, so there are no "hosting companies" or "cloud providers" involved with the operation of this Website.
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Out of respect for the Bitcoin community, this Website does not use any first-party cookies, except to store your preferred language setting (if any). However, we do use minimal first-party analytics and logging as needed for the operation of this Website, as follows:
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- We use a self-hosted statistics application (matomo) for analytics purposes, which collects your IP address along with the requests you make. Our matomo instance is configured to respect your privacy by redacting your IP address and other methods, and we do not share this data with any third-party. To conceal your activity from our analytics, we recommend that you use a privacy protecting browser extension that blocks matomo from being loaded.
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+ - Mempool Accelerator Services are only available to persons in eligible countries, and in our discretion we may not provide Services (or may provide limited services) in one or more countries from time to time or determine that one or more countries are Restricted Jurisdictions.
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TRUST YOUR OWN SELF-HOSTED MEMPOOL EXPLORER
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USING MEMPOOL ACCELERATOR™
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For maximum privacy, we recommend that you use your own self-hosted instance of The Mempool Open Source Project® on your own hardware. You can easily install your own self-hosted instance of this website on a Raspberry Pi using a one-click installation method maintained by various Bitcoin fullnode distributions such as Umbrel, RaspiBlitz, MyNode, and RoninDojo. See our project's GitHub page for more details about self-hosting this website.
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If you use Mempool Accelerator™ your acceleration request will be sent to us and relayed to Mempool Mining Pool Partners. We will store the TXID of the transactions you accelerate with us. We share this information with our mining pool partners, as well as publicly displaying accelerated transaction details on our website and APIs. No personal information or account identifier will be shared with any third party including mining pool partners.
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If you click the accelerate button on a transaction you will load acceleration pricing information from Mempool. If you make an acceleration request the TXID and your maximum bid will be sent to Mempool who store and share this information with their mining pool partners, as well as publicly displaying accelerated transaction details on mempool.space and Mempool APIs. No personal information or account identifier will be shared with any third party including mining pool partners.
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- DONATING TO MEMPOOL.SPACE
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- If you donate to mempool.space, your payment information and your Twitter identity (if provided) will be collected in a database, which may be used to publicly display the sponsor profiles on mempool.space/about. Thank you for supporting The Mempool Open Source Project.
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+ - Your e-mail address and/or country, we may use this information to manage your user account, for billing purposes, or to update you about our services. We will not share this with any third-party, except as necessary for our fiat payment processor (see "Payments" below).
- If you sign up for an account on mempool.space, we may collect the following:
+ - If you connect your X (fka Twitter) account, we may store your X identity, e-mail address, and profile photo. We may publicly display your profile photo or link to your profile on our website, if you sponsor The Mempool Open Source Project, claim your Lightning node, or other such use cases.
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+ - If you sign up for a subscription to Mempool Enterprise we also collect your company name which is not shared with any third-party.
- - If you provide your name, country, and/or e-mail address, we may use this information to manage your user account, for billing purposes, or to update you about our services. We will not share this with any third-party, except as detailed below if you sponsor The Mempool Open Source Project®, purchase a subscription to Mempool Enterprise®, or accelerate transactions using Mempool Accelerator™.
+ - If you sign up for an account on mempool.space and use Mempool Accelerator Pro your accelerated transactions will be associated with your account for the purposes of accounting.
- - If you connect your Twitter account, we may store your Twitter identity, e-mail address, and profile photo. We may publicly display your profile photo or link to your profile on our website, if you sponsor The Mempool Open Source Project, claim your Lightning node, or other such use cases.
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- If you make a credit card payment, we will process your payment using Square (Block, Inc.), and we will store details about the transaction in our database. Please see "Information we collect about customers" on Square's website at https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy
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- If you make a Bitcoin or Liquid payment, we will process your payment using our self-hosted BTCPay Server instance and not share these details with any third-party.
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PAYMENTS AND DONATIONS
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If you make any payment to Mempool or donation to The Mempool Open Source Project, we may collect the following:
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+ - If you make a payment using Bitcoin, we will process your payment using our self-hosted BTCPay Server instance. We will not share your payment details with any third-party. For payments made over the Lightning network, we may utilize third party LSPs / lightning liquidity providers.
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Terms of Service
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NO ADVERTISING
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Out of respect for the Bitcoin community, this website does not display advertising, and generally does not link to external websites. However, external links 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:
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- - 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.
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- - In order to acknowledge individual contributors to The Mempool Open Source Project who have made at least 5 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.
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- - 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.
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- - In order to acknowledge members of the Bitcoin community who have or have committed to making 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.
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- - 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.
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- - 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.
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- - In order to acknowledge the enterprise organizations within the Bitcoin community that have or have committed to making recurring donations of at least $1000 USD per month to The Mempool Open Source Project through our GitHub Sponsors program for at least 25 months, the organization's logo may be displayed on mempool.space/about, with a link to the organization's website.
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COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP
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+ - All donations to The Mempool Open Source Project including community sponsorships are non refundable.
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+ - Each calendar year community sponsors will be issued a coupon code which can be redeemed for Mempool merchandise. Fulfillment is provided by the cypherpunk store and coupon codes expire 6 months after issuance.
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+ - In order to acknowledge Bitcoin community members who previously 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 X (fka twitter) profile photo is automatically be displayed on mempool.space/about, with a link to their X profile.
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+ - In order to acknowledge members of the Bitcoin community who have donated to The Mempool Open Source Project via Chad or Whale sponsorships, the Bitcoin community member's X (fka Twitter) profile photo will automatically be displayed on mempool.space/about, with a link to their X profile while the subscription is active.
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+ - In order to acknowledge the enterprise organizations within the Bitcoin community that have made a significant one-time donation of at least $100,000 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.
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MEMPOOL ENTERPRISE™
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+ - The full Terms of Service for Mempool Enterprise™ are available upon request.
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+ - All Mempool Enterprise™ subscription payments are non refundable.
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+ - In order to acknowledge the enterprise organizations within the Bitcoin community that have subscribed to Mempool Enterprise™ for at least 25 months, the organization's logo may be displayed on mempool.space/about, with a link to the organization's website.
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MEMPOOL ACCELERATOR™
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Mempool Accelerator™ enables members of the Bitcoin community to submit requests for transaction prioritization to Mempool Mining Partners via mempool.space.
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+ - All acceleration payments and Mempool ACcelerator™ account balance top-ups are non refundable.
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+ - Acceleration requests cannot be cancelled by the user once submitted.
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+ - Mempool reserves the right to cancel acceleration requests for any reason, including but not limited to the ejection of an accelerated transaction from Mempools mempool. Canceled accelerations will not be refunded.
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+ - Services are only available to persons in eligible countries, and in our discretion we may not provide Services (or may provide limited services) in one or more countries from time to time or determine that one or more countries are Restricted Jurisdictions.
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