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Since the Gamma NFT Marketplace launched trading for the Bitcoin Name System (BNS) on October 1, 2022, there have been almost 4,000 BNS name sales. On this page, we have compiled a list of the top 20. There have also been many OTC transactions which cannot be accounted for in this list. Top .BTC Domain […]

Setting up your Bitcoin Name System (BNS) / .btc domain name to receive Bitcoin is easy. In this guide, we’ll show you how. Currently, Hiro Wallet is the only wallet that supports Bitcoin payments to BNS names. However, the feature is also on Xverse Wallet’s roadmap. Note: Hiro Wallet has rebranded to Leather. This tutorial will

Looking to buy a BNS / .btc domain? In this guide, we’ll show you how. Note: this guide is only useful if you want to buy a name that has already been registered. If you want to register a new one, see How to Register a .btc Name. In this guide, we’ll be using Gamma to buy

Looking to sell your BNS / .btc domain? You’re in the right place. In this guide, we’ll show you how to sell your .btc name and cover some FAQs. Because BNS names are not standard SIP-009 NFTs on the Stacks Network, they can be a bit tricky to deal with. For example, you are limited to

The Bitcoin Name System (BNS) has gained a lot of popularity due to the explosion of the .btc namespace. What many users don’t know is that BNS started on Bitcoin L1 in 2015 and even has a pre-history on Namecoin going back to 2014—a whole three years before the Ethereum Name Service was founded. Further,

What is Stacks? The Stacks Network is a smart contract-enabled blockchain “anchored” to the Bitcoin blockchain. It enables DeFi, NFT, and Web3 applications for the Bitcoin ecosystem. It is easiest to think of Stacks as a Bitcoin layer 2 network–a.k.a. an “L2″–similar to Arbitrum or Polygon for the Ethereum blockchain. However, there are some differences

Note: We created this list in the early days of BRC-20 when platforms that supported it were rare. It is very out of date, but we are keeping it as-is for historical purposes. This is a list of applications which have integrated the BRC-20 experimental token standard on Bitcoin. We will update it as new integrations

Note: The BRC-20 ecosystem has changed a lot since we wrote this post. However, Domo linked it from the brc-20 gitbook, so we are keeping it as-is for historical purposes. The BRC-20 token standard is an experimental fungible token standard for Bitcoin created by Twitter user, @domodata on March 8th, 2023. It utilizes Ordinal inscriptions

The current version of BNS does not support unicode characters, which includes emojis. So, if you want to register a .btc name with an emoji or other unicode character, you have to convert it to punycode. Note: If a future version of BNS supports unicode, the punycode names may become less valuable or may not

One of the things you may want to do after you register a .btc domain name is redirect it to a website with a traditional TLD such as .com, .org, or .net. Although most web browsers do not resolve .btc domains yet, this is one workaround you can implement using the btc.us registrar’s “Web Bridge”