$401
Before you can follow the money, you need to know who you are. The $401 standard is your cryptographic identity — encrypted, self-sovereign, and inscribed on-chain forever. Your peers decide what it's worth.
THREE MODELS.
ONE SOLUTION.
Anonymity
No accountability. Enables trolls, scammers, and sock puppets. The internet's original sin.
Centralised KYC
Hand your documents to a corporation. They verify you. They own the relationship. They can revoke it.
Peer Underwriting
You issue your identity. Your peers stake on it. The market decides what your reputation is worth. No central authority.
EXPRESS.
YOURSELF.
ON-CHAIN.
Your identity isn't a username on someone else's server. It's a cryptographic proof that you exist, that you created, that you own. No platform can take it away. No corporation controls it. It's yours.
“Follow the money”
Payment flows, content access, economic coordination. The money side of the protocol.
“Follow your own path”
Identity, authorship, reputation, self-sovereignty. The human side of the protocol.
Encrypt your documents
At bit-sign.online, encrypt your passport or ID into a sealed cryptographic bundle. Nobody can read it without your key.
Inscribe the root
The encrypted bundle is written to the blockchain as your root inscription — a permanent, tamper-proof anchor for your identity.
Mint your $401 token
Choose your symbol — $BOASE, $ALICE, $YOU — and mint your identity token. It traces back to your root inscription forever.
Peers stake on you
Other $401 holders lock tokens against your identity. Their stake says "I vouch for this person." More stake = higher trust score.
Pair with $402
Your $401 unlocks the full protocol. Earn dividends, operate nodes, write legally binding documents, commit code with attribution.
$401 Identity
$402 Payment
Anonymous by default. Identity when you choose it. The $401 is never required for basic browsing — only for building, earning, and owning.
Bitcoin Writer
Write documents to the blockchain with verified authorship. Wills, contracts, blog posts — all legally anchored to your identity.
$bWriterBitcoin Code
Commit code on-chain with attribution. Every line you write is tracked, credited, and potentially compensated.
$bCodeNode Operations
Run a path402d node with a verified identity. Other nodes trust you. The network rewards you. Indexing becomes income.
path402dDividends & Staking
Stake $402 tokens and receive dividends. KYC is required for financial returns — your $401 satisfies it automatically.
economicsReputation
Your identity accumulates history. Every document written, every commit made, every node uptime — all provably yours.
trustSelf-Sovereignty
No platform owns your identity. No company can delete it. Your encrypted passport bundle is yours, forever, on-chain.
ownership| Activity | $401 | $402 |
|---|---|---|
| Browse paywalled content | – | ✓ |
| Speculate on content tokens | – | ✓ |
| Sell tokens to peers | – | ✓ |
| Earn serving rewards | Optional | ✓ |
| Stake for dividends | ✓ | ✓ |
| Write to chain (Bitcoin Writer) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Commit code (Bitcoin Code) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mint new content tokens | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operate a path402d node | ✓ | ✓ |
Anonymous by default. The protocol doesn't require identity until you want to build, earn, or own.
NOT A SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE.
Your trust score isn't controlled by any authority. It's the sum of what your peers are willing to risk on your reputation. Stakers lock real value against your identity. If you misbehave, they lose money. That's the incentive alignment.
Self-Declared
Token minted, no external validation
Peer-Vouched
At least one staker backing you
Community-Trusted
Multiple stakers, sustained uptime
Institutionally-Verified
Professional attestation on-chain
YOUR PERSONAL
IDENTITY PATH
Mint your identity. Own your name. Build on the protocol.