Terms and Privacy
Plain-language terms for every service listed on bitcoin.mineracks.com, run by mineracks Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia. Effective 2026-09-21. Using a service means accepting them. Services with their own page of terms (VSS) say so there; where they differ, the service's own page wins.
Terms of service
1. What these are
Public Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid, Nostr and Monero infrastructure: explorers, Electrum and silent-payment servers, nodes you can peer with, a mining pool, payment tooling, storage and test networks. We never hold your keys or funds; nothing here is custody unless a page says so explicitly (the Cashu mint is a bearer claim on the mint, and says so).
2. Public beta, no SLA
Everything is offered as-is, free, without a service-level agreement. We aim for high availability and probe every endpoint from outside our fleet every five minutes, and we publish the result, but we do not promise uptime, latency or durability, and we may change limits, suspend or discontinue a service. Where we can we give notice on the catalog and at the contact address. If you rely on a service in production, keep a second provider; every protocol here is designed for that.
3. Your responsibilities
- Stay within the per-IP limits stated on each card. Exceeding them returns errors, not silent truncation.
- Signet and testnet4 services carry no value. Mainnet services move real money; connect strings are endpoints, not addresses.
- Do not use a service to attack it, us, or anyone else, to store or relay unlawful content, or to probe beyond ordinary client behaviour without asking first.
- Keep your own keys. Where access is by key (VSS, the watchtower) nobody, including us, can retrieve or delete data for you.
4. Enforcement, liability, law
We may rate-limit, block or remove any client that abuses a service or exposes us to legal risk, without notice if necessary. To the extent permitted by law, mineracks Pty Ltd is not liable for loss arising from use of or inability to use a service, including loss of data or funds; nothing excludes rights under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot be excluded, and where liability cannot be excluded it is limited to re-supplying the service. Queensland, Australia law applies. We may update these terms; the date above changes when we do.
Privacy notice
What we hold
- Request logs. Web fronts log the client IP (as passed by Cloudflare), path, timestamp, response code and user agent. Logs live on the host, rotate automatically (days, not months) and are not shipped elsewhere.
- Protocol data. Explorers and Electrum-style servers see the addresses and transactions you ask about; a P2P peer sees your IP and the transactions you relay; a Nostr relay stores the events you publish; the mining pool sees your payout address and shares. That is how those protocols work, not a choice we make. Where a service stores your data (VSS, the watchtower) it stores ciphertext you produced.
- Edge. Requests to proxied hostnames pass through Cloudflare under its own privacy policy; raw-TCP services (Electrum, stratum, P2P, watchtower, Monero) do not.
- Backups. Databases are archived, encrypted, to a backup host we control in Australia and mirrored, still encrypted, to object storage at a second provider, on rolling schedules of roughly five weeks.
No cookies, analytics or trackers on the catalog or the service pages. The catalog page fetches its own status file to show the dots.
Why, and who sees it
To provide the service you asked for, keep it reliable, and protect it from abuse. We do not sell or share this data, and we disclose it only where the law requires; because most of what we hold is either public chain data or ciphertext, what we could disclose is the request metadata above.
Deleting your data
Key-based services delete through their protocol; request logs age out by themselves; Nostr events can be deleted with a kind-5 event from the same key. Because access is by key and not identity, we cannot act on deletion requests by email for data we cannot attribute; if you can sign with the key, write to us.
Contact
mineracks Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia · [email protected]