Terms of Service

1. The agreement

Flow (the “platform”) is operated by the operators of Flow (“we,” “us,” the “operator”). By using the platform — at followthesats.com or any subdomain, with or without an account — you agree to these Terms of Service and to the Responsible Use statement, which is part of them. If you don’t agree, don’t use the platform.

2. The service and its tiers

Flow is an analysis platform over public Bitcoin blockchain data: full-chain clustering, interactive flow tracing, behavioral signatures, and a community attribution system. Access comes in four tiers, described on the pricing page:

• Public — free, no account: read-only viewing of traces others have published.
• Sleuth — free, registered: 500 lookups a day, saved graphs, published share links, attribution voting, leaderboards, and the optional newsletter.
• Supporter — $10/month, payable in USD or sats: priority compute and early features.
• Enterprise — by written agreement: metered API access, bulk export, and organization workspaces.

Lookup limits exist to keep the platform fast and to prevent bulk extraction; we may adjust them to protect the service. The free public tier is the mission and we intend to keep it, but tier features and limits are not a contractual promise of any specific capacity.

3. Acceptable use

The platform’s doctrine is not decoration — it is a condition of use. By using Flow you agree that you will not:

• Target people. You may not use the platform to identify, contact, confront, threaten, harass, surveil, or publicly accuse any private individual, or to publish anyone’s personal information. Attributions on Flow are evidence-based hypotheses about wallets and entities — never grounds to act against a person. Trace, document, and report to official channels; vigilante action of any kind is prohibited and ends participation permanently.
• Use the platform unlawfully. You may not use Flow in violation of any applicable law, including to facilitate any unlawful activity, or to evade a lawful investigation.
• Misrepresent the data. You may not present a community attribution, behavioral signature, or confidence level as a finding of fact, a verdict, or an accusation of wrongdoing by any person.
• Attack the service. You may not probe, disrupt, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the platform or its infrastructure, or circumvent rate limits, lookup quotas, or bans.

4. No scraping or bulk extraction

Automated harvesting of platform data, systematic enumeration of Bitcoin addresses, transactions, or clusters, and bulk extraction or redistribution of platform data are prohibited on all self-serve tiers — free and paid. This includes scraping the web interface, replaying lookups programmatically, distributing extraction across accounts or IP addresses, and republishing platform datasets in bulk.

The platform detects enumeration and harvesting patterns and bans them automatically, without notice. Programmatic and bulk access exists and is welcome — exclusively through an Enterprise agreement, which is what the metered API and bulk export are for. Open a conversation.

5. Data license

The Bitcoin blockchain is public and belongs to no one, including us. What we license is the work layered on top of it: the community-reviewed attribution corpus and the platform’s derived data — clusters, behavioral signatures, confidence scores, first-relay observations — as compiled and presented by Flow (together, the “corpus”).

• Personal, journalistic, academic, and research use is free. Use the platform, cite what you find, publish your analysis, screenshot a trace, link a graph. Attribution to Flow is appreciated, not required.
• Commercial redistribution requires a written license. Redistributing the corpus or substantial portions of it, or ingesting it into a commercial product, service, dataset, or model, requires a written license from us. Enterprise API and export access comes with the license terms that fit it — talk to us.

Your submissions

Attributions, evidence, notes, votes, and published share links you submit remain yours, but by submitting them you grant the operator a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, adapt, and distribute them within the platform — including in the published label corpus and in graphs other people view. That license is what lets a label you propose keep helping the next investigation. You are responsible for what you submit, and you warrant that your submissions comply with these terms, including Section 3.

6. Accounts

You don’t need an account to look. If you register one:

• Pseudonyms are welcome — we use one too — but your contact email must actually reach you.
• One account per person. Track record is the currency of the attribution system; sockpuppets debase it and are removed.
• You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your credentials secure.
• We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms. Violations of Section 3’s no-doxxing rule end participation permanently.

7. Paid tiers and billing

• Supporter subscriptions, once offered, bill monthly at the price shown on the pricing page until cancelled. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
• No refunds for partial periods or unused time, except where the law requires them.
• We may change prices with reasonable advance notice; changes apply from your next billing period.
• Enterprise terms are set by the written Enterprise agreement, which governs where it conflicts with these terms.
• Paying never buys attribution influence. No tier grants label weight, curator status, or visibility into data the public can’t see. This is doctrine, and no payment creates an exception to it.

8. Disclaimers

Flow is in beta. We reserve a weekly maintenance window, make no uptime commitment, and ship fixes and changes continuously; the service may be interrupted or changed without notice.

Labels, attributions, behavioral signatures, and confidence scores are evidence-based hypotheses, not verdicts or findings of fact. They may be incomplete or wrong, they are subject to community review and revision, and they must not be treated as proof of any person’s or organization’s involvement in any activity. Nothing on the platform is legal, financial, or investment advice. See the full disclaimer.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law: the operator, its members, and its contributors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or reputational harm, arising from your use of — or inability to use — the platform or its data, or from any action you or anyone else takes in reliance on platform data. Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the platform is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose and one hundred US dollars ($100). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; where the law forbids a limitation above, it does not apply to you.

You agree to indemnify the operator against claims arising from your violation of these terms, including any use of platform data to target, harass, or accuse an individual.

10. Termination

You can stop using the platform, or delete your account, at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access — and ban the associated accounts, keys, and network sources — for violations of these terms, automatically in the case of scraping and enumeration. Sections 5 (your submission license), 8, 9, and 12 survive termination.

11. Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms. When we do, we’ll update this page and its date, and for material changes we’ll say so prominently on the platform. Continued use after a change takes effect is acceptance of the revised terms. If you don’t accept them, stop using the platform.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising from these terms or the platform will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Wyoming, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms: legal@followthesats.com. For how we handle data about you, see the Privacy Policy.