Money in, glory out.
We are Liverpool supporters locking bitcoin to buy a stake in our club. Nobody holds your money but you, and nothing is ever paid out.
There is no return, no dividend and no payout, now or ever. If you hope to make money here, do not take part.
What this is
You lock it under your own key until a date you pick. Locking means nobody can spend it before that date, not even you. On the date it is yours to spend again, whatever has happened to us.
Anyone can check the total against the blockchain, the public record of every bitcoin payment. We publish no figure a stranger cannot check.
If a stake is ever bought, a supporters' society will hold it. Its rules will make it vote the club's shares the way its members vote.
No name, no email, no account. A bitcoin wallet is all you need.
What it costs you
- Signing is free. It moves no money.
- Locking costs a network fee. It goes to the people who run the bitcoin network, not to us, and you see it before you approve it.
- Buying bitcoin costs what your exchange charges, if you have none yet.
- The real cost is risk. Bitcoin's price can fall while yours is locked, and you cannot sell it until your date.
We take nothing and earn nothing. The risks page has the detail.
The six steps
- UnderstandYou are here.
- Sign the declarationFree. No money moves. Signing makes you a member.
- Get bitcoinOnly if you want to lock some. There is no deadline.
- Lock itFor one, three or five years, under your own key.
- Check and publishSee it on the blockchain, then add it to the register so it counts.
- Take it homeOn your date it is yours again, unless you have put it into a purchase yourself.
Steps 4 to 6 are open on a test network only, for now. A test network is a practice copy of bitcoin whose coins are worth nothing. Locking real bitcoin from this site is not open yet.
It may well fail
No owner may ever sell to us. Football's regulators may say no. We may never raise enough to matter. Any of those ends it.
If it fails, every lock still comes home on its date, because the money never went anywhere else. There is no pot to lose.
Read the declaration How it works, in ten questions