A social network with
no landlord.
Bonfire is what social media looked like before it learned to sell you: photos, short posts, long stories, comments and friends. The difference is underneath. There's no ad business, no ranking algorithm and no user database to harvest — your content lives on IPFS and every post is stamped on the TEXITcoin blockchain under your own wallet.
Photos
Drop in a whole roll at once. Bulk upload, caption it, tag the friends who were there. Full-size originals go to IPFS, not a lossy re-encode on somebody's ad server.
Blurbs
A short thought, a link, a joke, a headline. The quick stuff a network needs to feel alive, without a character-count arms race or a quote-tweet dogpile machine.
Stories
Long-form writing with real paragraphs. The blog post you'd otherwise never publish because the platform buries anything that takes four minutes to read.
Two pieces, both public
IPFS holds the content
Files are addressed by their own hash, so the name is the proof. If the bytes change, the address changes — silent edits are impossible. Anyone can pin a copy, including you.
TEXITcoin holds the proof
Each post's hash is written into a TXC transaction: a public, timestamped record of what you published and when. You can read about the chain and the Omni layer 2 at texitcoin.org/build.
- What does it actually cost?
- Photos and text get a free monthly hosting allowance — enough for normal, heavy personal use. Past that you pay per megabyte in TXC at cost. Posting and commenting cost a few cents each, which is the anti-spam mechanism, not a revenue plan.
- Why a wallet instead of an email address?
- Because an email address is the first link in a chain that ends with a data broker. A wallet proves you're the same person across sessions without telling us who you are offline. Claim an @handle on top of it so humans can find you.
- What does 'stamped on-chain' mean?
- When you post, we write the IPFS hash of your content into a TEXITcoin transaction. That creates a public, timestamped record that this exact content existed at that moment, published by your wallet. It's a notary, not a copy — the content itself stays on IPFS.
- What happens if Bonfire disappears?
- Your content is content-addressed on IPFS and can be pinned by you or anyone else. Your on-chain stamps stay on the chain. This website is a viewer, not a vault. Losing the viewer doesn't lose the work.
- Is anything moderated?
- Illegal content goes, full stop. Beyond that, the price of posting does most of the work that armies of moderators do elsewhere, and you control your own feed by choosing who to follow. We're not in the business of ranking or shaping what you see.
- Can I delete a post?
- You can remove it from Bonfire and we'll unpin it from our nodes. What we can't do is un-say a hash that's already on a public blockchain, or reach into a node someone else chose to pin. Permanence is the trade you get for ownership — post accordingly.