Searchable index of Bitcoin's public coordination record with Lightning payment access
Open protocols on Bitcoin that anyone can verify without trusting a company
Stage
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Startup
Founded
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2025
Based in
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Pricing model
Paid
Freemium
Pricing
Not given
Protocol tools and ochk.app sign-in are free. Apps that pay users on ochk.app pay a 20% platform fee. vault.ochk.io offers cloud sync priced in sats and paid on-chain.
Key features
Searchable index of Bitcoin IRC, mailing lists, GitHub, project repos, Core announcements, papers and source code
Citation tracking for all indexed sources
Lightning Network payment integration
Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector for AI tools
Argument assessment and contributor profiles
GitHub PR analysis and review automation
BLVM full node with formally specified consensus rules
Query credits system with no daily cap
Spec-lock with Z3 theorem proving in CI
Differential testing against Bitcoin Core and libbitcoinkernel
Bitcoin-backed accounts
Free, self-hosted verification tools
What makes it different
Pay-per-query model with Lightning Network, no subscription lock-in
Independent Bitcoin full node with formal consensus specification to reduce reliance on single implementation
Comprehensive public coordination record spanning 922k passages across IRC, GitHub, mailing lists and academic papers
GitHub App integration for automated PR review and advisory checks via Model Context Protocol
Transparent on-chain funding through Bitcoin Commons via Plebly escrow
Bitcoin-backed verification - anyone can check signatures against the blockchain without trusting orangecheck
Open, public specifications under MIT license
Non-custodial - protocols never hold coins or keys
Self-hostable verification - protocols work offline without orangecheck's infrastructure
BTCDecoded
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