Sign and join
You join by signing one line of text with a bitcoin wallet. It is free, it moves no money, and you never have to pay anything.
Have the Crowdlock app? Open this fund in it and sign there in one tap.
The key you sign with is the key that will own your locks, if you ever lock bitcoin. Use a wallet you mean to keep, with its recovery words written down. Recovery words are the 12 or 24 words a wallet gives you when you set it up. They are its only backup.
What you are putting your name to
You are signing the Supporters' Declaration. Read it first if you have not. In short: supporters buying a stake in Liverpool Football Club, with nobody ever holding anybody else's money, and nothing ever paid out to any member.
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What is about to happen
Five steps, about five minutes. Nothing leaves your device until the last one.
- Get a bitcoin wallet. Skip this if you have one.
- Copy one line of text from this page.
- Sign that line in your wallet. Wallets call this "sign message". It is not a payment.
- Paste the result back here. Your own browser checks it and tells you straight away.
- Press the button to go on the register.
If you get stuck at any step, nothing is lost and nothing has been sent. Close the page and come back.
1Get a wallet, if you have none
A bitcoin wallet is an app that holds your keys. A key is the secret that lets you, and only you, sign for your bitcoin. The wallet can be empty: a brand new one signs just as well as a full one.
The exchange holds the keys, not you, and most cannot sign a message at all. You need a wallet you control yourself.
On a computer: Sparrow
Free, open source, and the one these instructions know best. Download it from sparrowwallet.com. When it asks, choose a Native Segwit wallet. That gives you an address starting bc1q, which is the kind the register accepts.
On a phone: BlueWallet
From your app store. Make a new wallet and it will be the right kind by default.
If you may lock bitcoin later: a hardware wallet
A small device, such as a Ledger or a Trezor, that keeps the key off your computer. It usually costs around £50 to £80, or the same in your own money. It is the right place for a key that will one day own locked bitcoin, and it signs this line just as well as anything else.
You do not need one to join, and buying one is not a condition of anything.
Can I change wallets later?
You can register a second address later, but you would be a second member, not the one you started as. Nobody loses anything by that. It is just tidier to start where you mean to stay.
2Copy the line
This is the line you will sign. It carries the declaration's fingerprint, so your signature only matches this exact document.
Use the button. Do not retype it. One wrong character and the signature will not match.
3Sign it in your wallet
Signing a message is not a payment. It never touches the blockchain, costs no fee, and works on a wallet that has never held a penny. All it proves is that you hold the key.
Which wallet are you using? Pick yours and the exact taps appear.
Your wallet gives you back two things: the address you signed with, and the signature, a long scramble of letters and numbers that usually ends in =. You need both for the next step.
4Paste it back here
This page checks the signature on your own device. Nothing is sent anywhere until you press the button in step 5.
Fill both boxes and this will tell you straight away.
5Join the register
This is your whole membership record. No name, no email, no account. These two fields are all of it.
Your address and your signature go on a public register for anyone to see. Once they are published, you cannot unpublish them.
Your record is sent to the register, where the signature is checked again before anything is written. Your member number is given in the order signatures arrive. It carries no weight, no priority and no privilege.
Other ways in. They count exactly the same
A signature cannot be forged, so it needs nobody's permission to pass on. If the button is broken, or you would rather not go through us, use one of these and you lose nothing.
Open a pull request. Add your record to registrations.json in the repository. This needs a GitHub account.
Hand it to anybody who will publish it. Post it anywhere, or give it to a friend who uses GitHub. Nobody you pass it through can alter it without breaking it.
What is not yet true is that no operator can keep you out. Today there is one published register, merged by one person. Anyone can run their own, and until somebody does, that is a fact worth knowing, not a promise we can make.
Already a member? Go to step 3, get bitcoin.