Key Risk Summary

You are renting and configuring access to remote SHA-256 hashing work and related App functionality. You are not buying BTC, a financial product, an investment, a wallet service, a custody service, a payment account, or a guaranteed return. The iPhone does not perform Bitcoin proof-of-work. BTC outcomes are uncertain and depend on Bitcoin protocol rules, Mining Work, network difficulty, transaction fees, pool rules, settlement thresholds, the Bitcoin address you configure, third-party infrastructure, and operational records. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible. Diamonds are non-crypto in-App points only: they may be purchased only through Apple In-App Purchase where enabled or earned inside the App, and they cannot be withdrawn, sold, transferred, exchanged outside the App, or redeemed for BTC or cash. If you delete your account after the UI warning and confirmation flow, account-linked items may be permanently lost and the Company may have no ability to restore them.

1. Definitions

• "Apple" means Apple Inc. and its affiliates.
• "BTC" means bitcoin.
• "Covered Parties" means the Company and, where legally permitted, its shareholders, founders, directors, officers, managers, employees, contractors, consultants, suppliers, service providers, affiliates, successors, and assigns.
• "Configured Address" means the Bitcoin mainnet output address saved in your App account for settlement where supported.
• "Promotional Benefits" means free or discounted in-App benefits such as Diamonds, free rentals, free miners, VIP status, referral-code benefits, promo-code benefits, test credits, or other App benefits provided without cash, BTC, or external value.
• "Diamonds" means the App's closed-loop in-app points usable only inside the App as described in these Terms. Diamond, gem, sapphire, crystal, or similar emoji symbols or visual labels in the App mean the same thing as Diamonds.
• "Hashrate" means SHA-256 hashing speed, commonly measured in TH/s.
• "Mining Work" means SHA-256 hashing attempts performed to search for valid Bitcoin block headers or pool Shares.
• "Public Pool" means the shared mining mode currently integrated with Ocean Mining or another public pool selected by the Company.
• "Private Pool" means a Stratum pool created or joined by users through the App, including pools to which user-owned compatible SHA-256 ASIC hardware may connect where supported.
• "Shares" means partial proofs of work submitted to a pool for accounting and telemetry.
• "Sats" means satoshis, the smallest standard unit of bitcoin. 1 BTC equals 100,000,000 sats. Sats are not Diamonds, app points, credits, or Company-issued units.
• "Settlement" means the process of calculating, preparing, broadcasting, or confirming an on-chain BTC transaction, as applicable.
• "Timechain" means the Bitcoin proof-of-work blockchain.

2. Eligibility; Account; Security

• 2.1 Eligibility. You must be legally permitted to use the App in your jurisdiction. You are responsible for complying with all laws applicable to your use of the App, mining activity, receipt of BTC, taxes, sanctions, and reporting obligations.
• 2.2 Age. The App is not intended for children under the age at which parental consent is required under applicable law. If parental consent is required in your jurisdiction, you represent that you have obtained it.
• 2.3 Account. The App may require Sign in with Apple, device authentication, or other account mechanisms. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your device, Apple ID, credentials, and account activity.
• 2.4 Security notice. You must promptly contact support@bitcoinist.app if you suspect unauthorized access. We may suspend or restrict access where reasonably necessary to protect users, the Company, or the service.

3. Service Description; No On-Device Mining

• 3.1 Service overview. The Company is an app developer and publisher that provides software for renting and directing remote SHA-256 compute capacity and for managing related configuration. Users use the App to point supported servers, pools, and endpoints according to user-selected settings.
• 3.2 No iPhone mining. The iPhone does not perform Bitcoin proof-of-work. Work is performed off-device by datacenter-hosted ASIC hardware and/or user-connected ASIC hardware. The App is an interface for rental, monitoring, configuration, account management, and pool participation. The App does not use the iPhone CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, background execution, third-party ads, or third-party SDKs to perform Bitcoin proof-of-work.
• 3.3 What the service is. The service is software access and delivery of user-directed hashing attempts during a rental period, measured by pool-side telemetry and accepted Shares, subject to these Terms.
• 3.4 Limits of service. The service is software access to user-directed remote SHA-256 compute and related App functionality. It is not a wallet, custody service, exchange, payment account, financial service, investment product, or guaranteed-return product. We do not promise or guarantee any BTC amount, fiat value, exchange rate, block discovery, settlement timing, or profit.

3A. Regulatory Characterization

• 3A.1 App publisher and user-directed compute service. The Company provides App software, interfaces, educational content, marketing content, support, and access to remote server/hashrate capacity. The service is comparable to technical hosting, compute rental, server management, and mining-operations software. Users configure where supported hash work is pointed and are responsible for the pools, addresses, endpoints, and settings they choose.
• 3A.2 Network, pool, and software outcomes. Any sats or BTC outcome arises from Bitcoin proof-of-work, network consensus rules, pool rules, user configuration, and automated software records. The Company does not manually pay users, manually transfer user BTC, hold user BTC, operate a user payment account, decide Bitcoin network rewards, or promise that any server configuration will produce BTC.
• 3A.3 No reliance on Company profit efforts. Users must not rely on any Company promise, managerial effort, promotion, forecast, market-support activity, default setting, routing choice, or technical configuration to generate profit. Any BTC outcome depends on Bitcoin protocol rules, contributed proof-of-work, pool accounting, network difficulty, transaction fees, mempool conditions, user configuration, third-party infrastructure, and market conditions, not on a promise by the Company to generate profit, yield, income, or return.
• 3A.4 Closed service model. The App provides software access to remote compute configuration and mining-operation functionality. The Company does not receive, hold, transmit, exchange, broker, trade, lend, stake, or manage user BTC. The App has no user-to-user BTC transfers, internal BTC accounts, fiat conversion, withdrawable Diamonds, external Diamonds market, repayment feature, or guaranteed output. In-App sats or BTC figures are estimates, attributions, or settlement records, not custodial balances, deposit accounts, stored value, payment accounts, or claims to a specific UTXO.
• 3A.5 Pool features. Public Pool and Private Pool features are operational mining modes for measuring and allocating Mining Work and mining outcomes under the rules described in the App. They are not collective investment schemes, investment funds, partnerships, joint ventures, profit-sharing programs, or managed accounts. Participation does not create ownership of Company assets, pool infrastructure, hashrate suppliers, mining hardware, or pool operators.
• 3A.6 Changes. Laws, platform rules, tax rules, data rules, and interpretations affecting the App may change. We may restrict, suspend, terminate, geoblock, request additional information, change features, or refuse service where we believe it is necessary or prudent for compliance, risk management, App Store review, or business continuity.
• 3A.7 No regulatory waiver. Nothing in these Terms prevents regulators, law enforcement, courts, Apple, payment processors, or competent authorities from exercising powers they cannot legally waive. These Terms are intended to define the user relationship with the Company and preserve the maximum protections available to the Company under applicable law.
• 3A.8 Mining-work basis. BTC outcomes, if any, arise from Bitcoin proof-of-work, network consensus rules, pool accounting, measured Mining Work, valid block discovery, and the settlement rules described in these Terms. The Company allocates BTC outcomes according to measured work, user configuration, applicable pool rules, and automated settlement records. The App must be marketed and used only as the technical compute and mining-operations software described in these Terms. Apple is not a sponsor, administrator, promoter, or participant in any App activity.
• 3A.9 Marketing and user statements. Marketing, support, influencer, referral, creator, community, and user communications must describe the App consistently with the technical service described in these Terms. Communications must not imply guaranteed returns, guaranteed BTC, phone mining, custody, exchange functionality, payment-account functionality, or results outside measured Mining Work and applicable pool rules. We may remove, correct, restrict, or report misleading statements and may terminate users, organizers, creators, or partners who create regulatory or App Store risk.
• 3A.10 No advice; no reliance. Information in the App, Website, App Store listing, ads, creator content, support communications, calculators, examples, projections, screenshots, videos, estimates, or educational materials is operational and educational only. It is not legal, tax, accounting, investment, financial, mining profitability, or regulatory advice, and must not be relied on as a promise, guarantee, forecast, or inducement to buy any product or service.

4. Mining Work Delivery Commitment

• 4.1 Commitment. For each rental, the Company's obligation is to deliver a total quantity of hashing work during the rental period: total hashes = rented hashrate × rental seconds. This is a commitment to deliver hashing attempts, not a commitment to deliver BTC.
• 4.2 Measurement. Delivery is measured using pool-side records, including accepted Shares, Stratum records, pool telemetry, and hashrate estimates derived from Share submissions over time. In-App displays are informational estimates only.
• 4.3 Source of truth. Pool-side records, accepted Share records, Stratum server logs, settlement logs, and Bitcoin timechain records are the authoritative records for delivery, accounting, settlement, and dispute review.
• 4.4 Variance. Share submission and hashrate estimates are stochastic and may vary due to share difficulty, latency, stale shares, time-windowing, smoothing, pool estimator variance, maintenance, and network conditions. Instantaneous displayed hashrate may be above or below the nominal rental rate.
• 4.5 Routing. The Company may route, allocate, reallocate, or replace Mining Work across equivalent SHA-256 ASIC hardware, firmware, pools, Stratum endpoints, or datacenter clusters, provided the total Mining Work commitment is met under Section 4.2.
• 4.6 Shortfall and incident handling. If Company software, automated monitoring, pool records, telemetry, management systems, or other authoritative records show that rented Mining Work materially fell short due to a Company-controlled operational issue, the Company may, at its discretion and subject to law and Apple rules, provide one or more of: automatic rental extension, manual rental extension, replacement Mining Work, free mining rental, Diamonds adjustment, Diamonds deposit, promo-code replacement, VIP adjustment, or other in-App correction. Any correction may be based on the detected incident and available records. No correction creates a right to BTC, cash, fiat compensation, or external value.
• 4.7 Maintenance and interruptions. Planned maintenance, emergency maintenance, hardware failures, firmware changes, power events, datacenter events, network issues, pool connectivity issues, and telemetry delays may interrupt or reduce effective hashrate. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to restore service.
• 4.8 Force majeure and third-party outages. We are not responsible for failures or delays caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including third-party pool outages, internet providers, datacenter power or cooling systems, government action, natural disasters, war, labor disputes, cyber incidents, Bitcoin network events, mempool congestion, or widespread infrastructure failures.

5. Modes of Operation

• 5.1 Public Pool Mode.
  • (a) Public Pool mode contributes rented hashrate to a public mining pool currently integrated with Ocean Mining. The public pool operator is separate from the Company and controls its own rules, availability, accounting, policies, and payout systems.
  • (b) Public Pool BTC amounts shown in the App are estimates or actual amounts determined by the pool's accounting method based on contributed proof-of-work, accepted Shares, pool accounting windows, public pool fees, and the pool's applicable rules. Public Pool accounting is based on measured Mining Work contribution and applicable public pool rules.
  • (c) Until Lightning support is introduced, the minimum Public Pool automatic Bitcoin distribution threshold is 7,000 sats. Distribution requires both the threshold to be met and a valid Bitcoin output address configured in the user's account. Until those requirements are met, no on-chain settlement is initiated.
  • (d) Public Pool distributions are normally processed in weekly weekend batch runs, currently targeted for Sunday 01:00 CET where operationally feasible. Reaching the threshold does not guarantee immediate broadcast or inclusion in the next batch.
  • (e) BTC is sent on-chain only to the Bitcoin output address configured in your account. If no valid Bitcoin output address is configured, automatic Bitcoin distribution will not occur. Public pool fees, Bitcoin transaction fees, mempool conditions, batching economics, UTXO management, threshold policy, and operational constraints may affect net settlement, timing, and whether a settlement is included in a specific batch.
  • (f) Diamonds do not accrue in Public Pool mode unless a separate in-App promotion expressly says otherwise.
• 5.2 Private Pool Mode.
  • (a) Users may create a Private Pool or join another user's Private Pool where enabled. A user who creates a Private Pool is the pool organizer.
  • (b) Private Pool mining is Bitcoin proof-of-work mining. Blocks are found when contributed SHA-256 Mining Work produces a valid Bitcoin block under network consensus rules. Private Pool operation is based on contributed Mining Work, pool configuration, and applicable accounting rules. Participants may increase contributed hashrate by renting miners, connecting supported user-owned SHA-256 ASIC hardware, or inviting other participants where supported. Higher contributed hashrate generally increases expected block discovery frequency, but no specific block, BTC amount, timing, payout, or profitability is guaranteed.
  • (c) Private Pool settlement is based on the pool configuration and accounting rules in effect when a valid block is found and confirmed by the pool infrastructure. Coinbase outputs are not spendable until 100 confirmations. Broadcast and confirmation timing also depend on transaction construction, mempool conditions, fee policy, and operational checks.
  • (d) Private Pool BTC attribution. Unless a different in-App rule is disclosed before joining, if a Private Pool finds a valid block, the pool organizer fee is deducted first, then the remaining block amount is attributed among eligible participants based on time-weighted active miner participation during the 24 hours before the block was found: Participant BTC attribution = (Block Amount × (1 − organizer fee)) × (Participant Active Miner Time / Total Eligible Active Miner Time). For this formula, "Block Amount" means the Bitcoin block subsidy plus transaction fees actually included in the valid block, subject to applicable pool, settlement, transaction-fee, dust, address, compliance, and operational rules disclosed in the App or these Terms.
  • (e) Organizer fee. A Private Pool organizer may configure an organizer fee from 0% to 10% where supported. The organizer fee is set by the organizer, disclosed in-App before users join the pool, and may be subject to cooldowns, currently no more than one change per month unless the App states otherwise. The Company does not impose, collect, receive, share, or benefit from organizer fees.
  • (f) Missing address. If a user has no valid Bitcoin output address when a Private Pool settlement is prepared, automated settlement systems may exclude that user from the immediate settlement transaction until a valid address is added, handle the amount according to in-App settlement rules, or delay settlement where operationally feasible. Users are solely responsible for keeping a valid address configured.
  • (g) Diamonds may accrue in Private Pool mode only under the in-App rules then in effect. Accrual is subject to caps, rate limits, telemetry availability, eligibility, fraud controls, and change at any time.
  • (h) Organizer responsibility. Private Pool organizers are responsible for pool names, descriptions, invitations, fee disclosures, participant communications, and compliance with these Terms. Organizers must not misrepresent pool operation, organizer fees, expected BTC outcomes, or participant rights. We may rename, restrict, suspend, remove, or terminate pools, organizers, or related communications that create legal, compliance, consumer, or App Store risk.
• 5.3 Third-party pool changes. The Company may change supported pools, endpoints, routing, accounting integrations, or modes where needed for business, technical, security, legal, or operational reasons.

6. Bitcoin Output Address; No Custody

• 6.1 Address required; mainnet only. You must provide a valid Bitcoin mainnet output address that you control before any BTC can be sent to you. Testnet, signet, regtest, Lightning invoices, expired invoices, unsupported scripts, unsupported address formats, exchange-specific memo systems, non-Bitcoin addresses, or addresses on other networks are not valid unless the App expressly supports them.
• 6.2 User responsibility. You are solely responsible for securing your device, Apple ID, App account, third-party wallet, wallet app, output address, private keys, seed phrases, backups, recovery methods, network compatibility, and continued control of the address you provide. You must verify the full address before saving it. Clipboard malware, QR-code substitution, address reuse, wallet bugs, exchange deposit changes, expired deposit addresses, custodial wallet limits, and user error can cause permanent loss. The Company has no authority, liability, or technical means to recover your third-party wallet, restore lost keys, access your backup, reverse a Bitcoin transaction, or resolve a problem inside a wallet or service we do not control.
• 6.3 Validation limits. The App may perform limited format or checksum validation. Validation does not prove that the address belongs to you, is safe, is compatible with your wallet, or will remain accessible.
• 6.4 Irreversibility. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible after broadcast and confirmation. If BTC is sent to an incorrect, compromised, incompatible, custodial, or inaccessible address, it cannot be recovered, reversed, redirected, or refunded by the Company.
• 6.5 No wallet and no custody. The App is not a wallet. The Company does not custody BTC for users, does not hold BTC balances as a custodian, and cannot recover funds lost due to address errors or lost keys. The Company does not operate user-to-user BTC transfers or user BTC payment accounts.
• 6.6 Address review. We may reject, review, delay, or block settlement to any Bitcoin address that creates legal, sanctions, fraud, security, operational, or compliance risk. Users are responsible for providing an address they control and can lawfully use.
• 6.7 Address changes. Address changes apply only prospectively. A new or updated address may not affect transactions, batches, PSBTs, settlement files, records, or automated settlement operations that have already been prepared, queued, signed, broadcast, submitted to a pool, submitted to a settlement system, or otherwise committed.
• 6.8 Dust and uneconomic settlement. Settlement may be delayed, batched, thresholded, skipped, or postponed if the amount is below a dust limit, below a minimum threshold, uneconomic relative to Bitcoin transaction fees, operationally impractical, blocked by compliance review, or unsupported by the App. Thresholds, address requirements, transaction-fee rules, batching rules, and settlement timing may change.
• 6.9 No interest on delay. No interest, yield, damages, extra sats, extra BTC, Diamonds, or other compensation accrues because settlement is delayed, batched, thresholded, reviewed, blocked, uneconomic, technically unavailable, or dependent on user action.

7. Fees; Commissions; Taxes

• 7.1 Company revenue and commissions. Unless expressly disclosed in-App, the Company charges no separate settlement commission and no Company pool fee on BTC outcomes. The Company's revenue may include rentals, subscriptions, Apple In-App Purchases, advertising, promotions, partnerships, service revenue, or other lawful business revenue disclosed where required. Company revenue does not mean the Company receives, holds, transmits, or manages user BTC.
• 7.2 External fees. External fees may reduce net amounts or affect settlement timing, including Bitcoin transaction fees, public pool fees, organizer fees, and third-party provider costs. These are external to the Company's settlement commission.
• 7.3 Organizer fees. Organizer fees apply only in Private Pool mode where configured by the organizer and disclosed in-App. The Company does not receive organizer fees.
• 7.4 Taxes. Apple may collect taxes on purchases where required. You are responsible for any taxes, reporting, valuation, cost basis, income recognition, filings, or other obligations arising from use of the App, mining activity, receipt of BTC, disposition of BTC, Diamonds purchases, subscriptions, referrals, or local law. The Company does not provide tax, legal, accounting, investment, or financial advice and may not provide tax forms or reports unless legally required.

8. Diamonds

• 8.1 Nature. Diamonds are closed-loop in-App points. Diamond, gem, sapphire, crystal, or similar visual labels in the App mean Diamonds. Diamonds are not crypto, BTC, sats, money, legal tender, stored value, e-money, property, investment, mining proceeds, securities, commodities, or a claim against the Company.
• 8.2 In-App acquisition only; no outside sale, transfer, or withdrawal. Diamonds may be purchased only inside the App through Apple In-App Purchase where enabled, or earned or awarded only inside the App through App mechanics where enabled. Diamonds cannot be purchased outside the App, sold, withdrawn, redeemed for cash, redeemed for BTC, gifted, transferred to another account, transferred outside the App, exchanged outside the App, or used outside the App.
• 8.3 Purchased and promotional Diamonds. Purchased Diamonds are acquired through Apple In-App Purchase where enabled. Promotional Diamonds may be awarded through in-App promotions, referral codes, rewarded ads, educational videos, missions, onboarding actions, Private Pool miner activity, connected hardware, or other App features. Promotional Diamonds may be subject to caps, eligibility, expiry, reversal, anti-abuse controls, and change at any time. Purchased Diamonds do not expire solely because of the passage of time, but may be lost, become inaccessible, or be removed if the account is deleted, terminated, refunded, charged back, reversed, fraudulent, abusive, legally restricted, or technically unrecoverable, subject to Apple rules and applicable law.
• 8.4 Limited license. You receive a limited, revocable, non-transferable license to use Diamonds inside the App. We may modify, suspend, cap, reverse, remove, or discontinue Diamonds features subject to law and Apple rules.
• 8.5 No direct BTC for tasks. Rewarded ads, educational videos, missions, referrals, onboarding actions, promo codes, and similar App mechanics may award Diamonds or other in-App benefits where enabled. They do not directly award BTC, sats, cryptocurrency, cash, fiat value, or withdrawal rights.
• 8.6 Acquisition and issuance of Diamonds. Diamonds may be acquired, issued, or awarded only inside the App where enabled, including through Apple In-App Purchase, rewarded ads, educational videos, missions, onboarding actions, promotions, Private Pool miner activity, connected hardware, referrals, or other App features. Availability, amounts, prices, rules, caps, and eligibility may change.
• 8.7 Anti-abuse. We may withhold, delay, cap, reverse, adjust, invalidate, or remove Diamonds for abuse of the service, unauthorized automation, multiple-account abuse, referral abuse, ad abuse, connected-hardware abuse, unreliable telemetry, abnormal activity patterns, technical errors, duplicate credits, policy violations, sanctions risk, refunds, chargebacks, or legal requirements. We are not required to disclose anti-abuse thresholds, detection methods, or risk signals.
• 8.8 Uses. Diamonds may be used only inside the App for enabled redemption features such as rentals, rental extensions, custom avatars, cosmetics, badges, missions, VIP features, and other in-App engagement features. Uses may change or be discontinued.
• 8.9 No guarantee. Diamonds availability through ads, missions, videos, accrual, purchases, or promotions is not guaranteed and may vary by country, storefront, device, OS, app version, ad inventory, provider policy, user eligibility, fraud controls, and operational limits.
• 8.10 No external rights. Holding, receiving, purchasing, earning, or using Diamonds does not create ownership of Company assets, pool infrastructure, mining hardware, BTC, sats, revenue, or any external value.

9. Referral Program

• 9.1 In-App benefits only. Referral benefits, if offered, are provided only as in-App benefits such as Diamonds, free rentals, free miners, VIP status, promo-code benefits, or other App features. No BTC, cash, fiat value, investment return, or external value is provided for referrals. Referral actions and promotional actions do not directly create any Bitcoin payout entitlement.
• 9.2 Eligibility. Referral eligibility, attribution, timing, caps, geographic limits, required actions, fraud controls, and available benefits are defined in the App and may change.
• 9.3 No forced ratings or external actions. Referral benefits must not be used to require App Store ratings, App Store reviews, social-media posts, downloads of other apps, misleading endorsements, or actions prohibited by Apple or law.
• 9.4 Abuse. Self-referrals, fake accounts, bots, referral farms, incentivized traffic that violates Apple or provider rules, attribution manipulation, VPN abuse, device farms, paid fake users, or circumvention of caps may result in reversal of Diamonds, revocation of VIP status or free miners, suspension, termination, or reporting.
• 9.5 No agency. Referrals do not create employment, agency, partnership, joint venture, fiduciary duty, or authority to bind the Company.

10. Payments; Subscriptions; Apple Billing

• 10.1 Apple processing. All iOS subscriptions, rental purchases, and paid App functionality are processed by Apple In-App Purchase unless Apple rules and the App expressly permit otherwise. The Company does not directly process or store your payment card details.
• 10.2 Subscription disclosures. Subscription tier names, prices, billing periods, renewal terms, and entitlements are disclosed in the App and/or App Store purchase flow. Subscription entitlements may include miner rentals, hashrate access, priority features, rental duration, VIP features, bonuses, or other in-App benefits.
• 10.3 Auto-renewal. Auto-renewing subscriptions renew unless cancelled according to Apple's process. You can manage or cancel subscriptions through your Apple ID settings or the App Store.
• 10.4 Restore purchases. Restore Purchases restores eligible non-consumable purchases and active subscriptions under Apple rules. Used rental time, used App benefits, spent Diamonds, spent in-App points, promotional benefits, promo-code benefits, VIP status, deleted account data, and account history may not be restorable.
• 10.5 Refunds. Refund requests for Apple-processed transactions must be submitted to Apple. The Company cannot directly issue refunds for Apple-processed purchases. Approved refunds, reversals, billing failures, or chargebacks may result in revocation or reversal of entitlements, Diamonds, rental access, subscription benefits, VIP status, promo-code benefits, or related in-App items. No refund is owed because Bitcoin difficulty changed, network fees changed, BTC price changed, pool luck was poor, no block was found, expected sats differed from estimates, a user failed to add a valid address, or a user used an incorrect or inaccessible wallet, subject to mandatory law and Apple rules.
• 10.6 Chargebacks and refund abuse. Repeated refund requests, chargebacks, purchase-and-refund abuse, or payment misuse may result in suspended access, reversed Diamonds, disabled benefits, or termination, subject to Apple rules and applicable law.
• 10.7 Records for purchases and access. Apple, StoreKit, RevenueCat, server, entitlement, purchase, and account records are authoritative for purchase, subscription, entitlement, and access reviews to the maximum extent permitted by law.

10A. Promotions; Referral Codes; Public-App Test Access

• 10A.1 Promo codes and free items. The Company may provide referral codes, promo codes, free Diamonds, free rentals, free miners, VIP status, test credits, bonus items, or other promotional benefits inside the public App. Promotional benefits have no cash value, are not crypto, are not BTC, are not guaranteed, may be changed or withdrawn at any time, and may be subject to caps, expiry, eligibility rules, staged rollout, and anti-abuse review.
• 10A.2 Public-app test access. Some users may receive referral-code or promo-code access to free or discounted features, miners, Diamonds, VIP status, or other benefits inside the public App for launch testing, onboarding, growth, or operational validation. These benefits are not compensation for installing, reviewing, rating, promoting, testing, or providing feedback, and they do not directly create any BTC, cash, fiat, or external-value entitlement.
• 10A.3 No TestFlight compensation. Public-app referral-code or promo-code benefits are separate from TestFlight. If TestFlight or pre-release builds are ever used, they are for testing functionality only and are not compensation. No user is entitled to payment, BTC, Diamonds, miners, VIP status, or other value merely for joining TestFlight, using a beta build, rating the App, writing a review, posting on social media, or providing feedback.
• 10A.4 Promotional abuse. If Company software, automated systems, or manual review determine from available records that a user is abusing, manipulating, farming, reselling, duplicating, exploiting, or unfairly using promotional benefits, referral codes, beta codes, free items, VIP status, or promo codes, we may suspend the account, block settlement, reverse Diamonds, revoke benefits, remove access, terminate participation, or report activity where permitted or required.
• 10A.5 Experimental and staged features. Public-app test features, staged rollouts, experimental pools, test credits, referral-code benefits, promo-code benefits, free items, and VIP access may be incomplete, unstable, inaccurate, unavailable, reset, cancelled, or changed without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company is not responsible for losses or expected benefits arising from public-app test access, experimental features, free items, referral codes, promo codes, or promotional entitlements.

11. Bitcoin Mechanics

• 11.1 Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin mining is a proof-of-work process where miners repeatedly hash candidate block headers using double SHA-256 to search for a hash below the current network target.
• 11.2 Difficulty adjustments. Bitcoin difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks based on prior block intervals to target an average of approximately 10 minutes per block. Actual block timing varies. If total network hashrate rises, difficulty generally rises after adjustment and each fixed TH/s represents a smaller share of expected network work. If total network hashrate falls, difficulty generally falls after adjustment and each fixed TH/s represents a larger share of expected network work.
• 11.3 Halvings. Bitcoin block subsidy is programmed to reduce approximately every 210,000 blocks. A halving reduces the subsidy portion of the block reward. Transaction fees may still be included in blocks, but fees are variable and are not controlled by the Company. Halvings may reduce expected BTC or sats attributable to the same amount of Mining Work unless offset by transaction fees, difficulty changes, pool conditions, or other network changes.
• 11.4 Fees, batching, dust, and fee policy. Bitcoin transaction fees are set by transaction creators and market conditions for block space. Fees vary and may affect settlement costs and timing. Public-pool distributions and other on-chain settlements may be batched, thresholded, delayed, skipped, or postponed because small on-chain payments can be dust, uneconomic, or operationally impractical when network fees are high. Fee rate, RBF policy, batching, consolidation, UTXO selection, transaction construction, PSBT preparation, signing, and broadcast timing are operational and software-system decisions and may change.
• 11.5 Coinbase maturity. A Bitcoin block reward is paid through a coinbase transaction. Coinbase outputs cannot be spent until 100 confirmations under Bitcoin consensus rules. Any Private Pool settlement linked to a newly found block may therefore be delayed until coinbase maturity and related operational checks are complete.
• 11.6 Pool shares. Pools use Shares to measure contributed work. Most Shares are not valid Bitcoin blocks; they are accounting and telemetry proofs. If a Share also meets the Bitcoin network target, it may be a valid block.
• 11.7 Pool accounting. Pool accounting methods vary. Public pool accounting may use rolling windows and pool-specific rules. Private Pool accounting may use in-App rules and pool-side records. Attribution is based on measured work and configured accounting rules, not UI estimates.
• 11.8 Lightning roadmap. Lightning Network settlement support is planned for future development but is not yet available. If introduced, Lightning may support smaller or faster distributions and may reduce reliance on on-chain batching. It may also involve additional technical, wallet, routing, security, compliance, and support risks. Availability, timing, limits, and supported wallets may change.

11A. Bitcoin Network and Market Risks

• 11A.1 Bitcoin risks. You understand and accept risks related to Bitcoin, including price volatility, fee volatility, mempool congestion, delayed confirmations, failed or delayed transactions, forks, reorganizations, protocol changes, software bugs, miner behavior, pool behavior, wallet issues, custodian issues, address reuse risks, chain-analysis risk, and loss of access to keys or wallets.
• 11A.2 No liability for Bitcoin risks. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company is not responsible for Bitcoin price changes, Bitcoin network events, transaction delays, transaction fees, wallet failures, custodian failures, protocol issues, forks, reorganizations, or any inability to access or use BTC after it is sent to the Bitcoin output address you provided.
• 11A.3 Reorganizations and reversals. If a block, transaction, Share, pool accounting event, settlement event, attribution, or displayed status is reversed, orphaned, stale, reorganized, invalidated, corrected, rejected, or changed by Bitcoin consensus rules, a public pool, a Private Pool, a settlement system, or authoritative records, Company software may reverse, adjust, delay, or correct related App records, Diamonds, Promotional Benefits, entitlements, sats attribution, BTC attribution, settlement status, and displays.
• 11A.4 Provisional status. BTC, sats, hashrate, block-discovery estimates, settlement status, balances, and other figures shown in the App are provisional unless expressly marked final. Broadcast, txid display, pool display, or App display does not guarantee finality until the relevant Bitcoin, pool, settlement, compliance, and internal-record checks are complete.

12. Data Accuracy; Estimates; Reconciliation

• 12.1 Informational displays. Hashrate, earnings, sats, countdowns, projections, block-discovery estimates, balances, and telemetry shown in the App are estimates unless expressly marked final.
• 12.2 Delays. Data may be delayed, smoothed, rounded, aggregated, revised, or corrected due to pool processing, third-party APIs, network latency, reconciliation, stale shares, bugs, or operational review.
• 12.3 Records control. Backend systems, server records, pool records, Stratum logs, accepted Share records, settlement logs, management systems, Apple receipt records, and timechain records are the source of truth for all App functions. If App screens, UI/UX displays, local device data, screenshots, notifications, estimates, third-party displays, or user calculations conflict with those records, the backend, server, management, pool, Apple, and timechain records control.
• 12.4 Corrections. We may correct displayed balances, Diamonds, entitlements, settlement status, telemetry, sats attribution, BTC attribution, Promotional Benefits, VIP status, or accounting outputs if authoritative records show an error. Wrong numbers may appear because of internet loss, device issues, caching, delayed telemetry, software bugs, visual glitches, third-party errors, reversals, reorganizations, duplicate credits, over-crediting, or user manipulation. Such displays are not binding. Over-credited, duplicate, erroneous, reversed, or fraud-related attributions may be corrected, including by reducing future entitlements or future in-App attributions where legally permitted.

13. Support; AI Assistance

• 13.1 Support. Support is available through in-App support where enabled, support@bitcoinist.app, and Website contact forms where available. Privacy requests should be sent to privacy@bitcoinist.app.
• 13.2 Best efforts. Support is provided on a commercially reasonable, best-efforts basis. We do not guarantee response times, resolution times, or outcomes.
• 13.3 AI-assisted support. We may use AI systems and LLMs to draft, classify, summarize, route, or analyze support communications. AI outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or misunderstood. AI support and ordinary support cannot modify these Terms, approve refunds outside Apple processes, guarantee BTC, waive Company rights, provide legal/tax/financial advice, reverse Bitcoin transactions, recover wallets, recover private keys, or bind the Company unless confirmed through authorized Company channels and reflected in authoritative records. If support output conflicts with these Terms, the App's actual behavior, authoritative records, pool-side records, or timechain data, those sources control.
• 13.4 No secrets in support. You must not send seed phrases, private keys, wallet backup files, exchange passwords, signing credentials, or other secret wallet information to support, AI support, community channels, or any Company representative. The Company will never ask for them.

14. Third-Party Dependencies

• 14.1 Apple. The App depends on Apple distribution, review, billing, policies, device systems, App Store infrastructure, and Apple account systems. Apple may reject updates, remove apps, change policies, or affect availability.
• 14.2 Public pools. Public Pool mode depends on third-party public pool operators such as Ocean Mining. We do not control their rules, uptime, accounting, outages, maintenance, payout policy, or future changes.
• 14.3 Ad providers. Rewarded ads depend on third-party ad networks. Ad availability, targeting, frequency, rewards, fraud detection, and content may vary. We control Diamonds issuance but do not control all ad inventory or provider decisions.
• 14.4 Network and infrastructure. Your access depends on internet providers, mobile carriers, devices, operating systems, datacenters, DNS, cloud providers, Bitcoin network conditions, mining infrastructure providers, hashrate suppliers, pool software, firmware, monitoring providers, routing systems, and other external systems. Availability, routing, telemetry, reporting, share acceptance, and performance may vary. We use commercially reasonable monitoring, reconciliation, and verification processes, but no external system, supplier, datacenter, pool integration, or connectivity path is guaranteed.

15. Service Availability; Changes

• 15.1 No uptime guarantee. We do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, or continuous access to the App, Website, pools, telemetry, rentals, support, or settlement features.
• 15.2 Changes and termination. We may add, modify, suspend, deprecate, restrict, terminate, or remove features, pools, miner types, endpoints, prices, supported countries, benefit systems, subscriptions, Diamonds mechanics, telemetry methods, beta programs, promotional programs, settlement eligibility, or the entire service at any time, with or without prior notice, subject to applicable law and Apple rules.
• 15.3 Maintenance and emergency action. Planned or emergency maintenance, security incidents, suspected abuse, sanctions exposure, payout-address risk, infrastructure risk, or business risk may cause interruptions, reduced hashrate, delayed telemetry, blocked payouts, disabled accounts, or delayed settlement. Notice may be provided where practical but is not guaranteed.

16. Compliance; Geography; Sanctions

• 16.1 Supported countries. The App may be available only in supported countries or regions. We may restrict access by App Store storefront, IP address, GPS/device location, payment region, sanctions screening, or other operational criteria.
• 16.2 Circumvention. You may not use VPNs, proxies, false information, location spoofing, multiple Apple IDs, or other methods to circumvent geographic, legal, sanctions, fraud, or eligibility restrictions.
• 16.3 Sanctions. You may not use the App if you are sanctioned, located in a comprehensively sanctioned jurisdiction, acting for a sanctioned person, or if your use would cause the Company to violate sanctions, export controls, or other applicable laws.
• 16.4 Address and sanctions review. We may review Bitcoin output addresses, related public blockchain data, device and account risk signals, IP, storefront, location signals, and applicable sanctions or restricted-party lists where necessary for legal, security, fraud, abuse, or sanctions controls. This review is operational and address-focused; it does not make the Company a wallet, exchange, custodian, money transmitter, payment-account provider, or financial institution.
• 16.5 Limited information requests. We do not operate a general financial-account identity program. We may request only limited information reasonably needed to operate the App, verify an output address or account-control issue, investigate service abuse, satisfy Apple or platform requirements, comply with a specific legal requirement, or handle a clearly identified sanctions, security, or jurisdiction risk. Failure to provide requested limited information may result in restricted access, delayed or refused settlement, suspension, or termination where permitted by law.
• 16.6 Region exclusions. We may exclude or restrict specific countries, regions, U.S. states, EU/EEA countries, UAE zones, App Store storefronts, IP ranges, or other locations even if the App Store or device technically allows download or access.

17. Notifications; Marketing

• 17.1 Service notifications. The App may send service notifications about rentals, expiry, account security, settlement, distributions, maintenance, outages, policy changes, or important operational events.
• 17.2 Email signup and waitlist consent. If you submit your email address in the App, on the Website, through a waitlist, beta-access form, referral-code form, promo-code form, launch signup, landing page, or similar form, you expressly agree that the Company may send you emails about the App, launch access, waitlist status, referral codes, promo codes, product updates, educational content, offers, marketing, announcements, reminders, and related Bitcoinist communications until you unsubscribe.
• 17.3 Marketing notifications. We may send marketing or promotional messages where you consent, where you sign up as described above, or where law permits. You may opt out through in-App settings where available, iOS notification settings, or email unsubscribe links. We may use email-service providers, analytics, attribution, segmentation, and suppression lists to operate email communications.
• 17.4 Opt-out limits. Opting out of marketing does not disable required service, security, legal, account, purchase, subscription, transactional, compliance, or operational notices.

18. Acceptable Use; Anti-Abuse

• 18.1 Prohibited conduct. You must not: commit fraud; use bots or unauthorized automation; create multiple accounts to exploit in-App benefits; manipulate referrals, Diamonds, telemetry, pools, leaderboards, promo codes, beta codes, VIP status, Apple purchases, or accounting; reverse engineer except where law permits; scrape data except via permitted interfaces; interfere with miners, pools, Stratum connections, servers, settlement systems, or telemetry; gain unauthorized access; introduce malware; violate Apple or third-party rules; use the App illegally; misrepresent identity or affiliation; or attempt to bypass security, sanctions, geography, storefront, payment, or eligibility controls.
• 18.2 No prohibited benefit farming. You must not farm rewarded ads, referrals, promo codes, missions, educational videos, or onboarding actions using bots, fake users, incentivized traffic farms, device farms, account farms, click farms, VPN abuse, location spoofing, or other manipulation.
• 18.3 No misleading claims. You must not describe the App as phone mining, passive income, investment, yield, guaranteed profit, wallet, exchange, broker, custodian, money transmitter, or payment account.
• 18.4 Investigations and controls. We may investigate suspected abuse using logs, telemetry, pattern detection, device signals, payment signals, blockchain data, user reports, Apple records, third-party information, and automated risk systems. We may suspend or terminate accounts, withhold or reverse Diamonds, disable rentals or settlement, restrict features, revoke promo-code benefits, remove VIP status, report activity, or pursue legal remedies.

18A. User Content; Private Pool Content; Community Features

• 18A.1 User Content. Pool names, pool descriptions, usernames, avatars, referral messages, invitations, comments, support submissions, profile content, leaderboard identifiers, and other content you submit or configure are "User Content."
• 18A.2 License. You grant the Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, transmit, moderate, remove, modify for formatting, and otherwise use User Content as needed to operate, secure, moderate, market, and improve the App.
• 18A.3 Content rules. User Content must not be illegal, misleading, infringing, defamatory, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit, exploitative, scam-related, impersonating, privacy-invasive, malware-related, sanctions-related, extremist, misleading commercial, or inconsistent with these Terms.
• 18A.4 Private Pool content. Private Pool organizers are responsible for pool names, descriptions, invitations, fee disclosures, participant communications, and compliance with these Terms. Organizers are not Company agents and must not promise BTC, profit, yield, block discovery, payout timing, or investment returns.
• 18A.5 Moderation. We may rename, hide, restrict, remove, report, suspend, or terminate User Content, pools, organizers, accounts, or communications that create legal, compliance, consumer, security, Apple, brand, IP, or operational risk. We are not required to pre-screen all content.
• 18A.6 Reporting and blocking. Where community or user-facing content features are enabled, the App may provide reporting, blocking, moderation, or support mechanisms. Availability and implementation may vary by feature and App version.

19. User-Connected Hardware

• 19.1 Optional feature; availability. User-connected SHA-256 ASIC hardware is optional, may not be available immediately, and is supported only where enabled in Private Pool mode. Availability may depend on App version, account eligibility, hardware type, firmware, pool endpoint readiness, operational capacity, staged rollout decisions, and automated compatibility checks.
• 19.2 Compatibility. Not all hardware, firmware, networks, Stratum variants, worker names, pool endpoints, or configurations are supported. Compatibility information may be provided in-App or on the Website and may change.
• 19.3 User responsibility. You are solely responsible for acquiring, owning or being authorized to use, configuring, powering, cooling, securing, maintaining, and monitoring your hardware, firmware, network, credentials, firewall, power supply, ventilation, noise compliance, electrical safety, and local legal compliance.
• 19.4 Prohibited hardware use. You may not connect stolen hardware, unauthorized hardware, botnets, compromised firmware, malware-controlled devices, unauthorized datacenter capacity, illegal power sources, or hardware used in violation of third-party rights or law.
• 19.5 Telemetry and credit. Connected-hardware activity may be credited only if Company software, pool records, and telemetry systems can reliably identify and validate the work. Invalid, stale, rejected, manipulated, spoofed, or unreliable telemetry may be ignored, capped, reversed, or excluded.
• 19.6 Security risks. Connecting hardware to a network-accessible pool endpoint creates security risks. You are responsible for preventing unauthorized access, credential theft, firmware compromise, overheating, fire, electrical issues, data loss, or hardware damage.
• 19.7 No hardware warranty. We do not warrant user hardware performance, stale share rates, hashrate, settlement outcomes, uptime, profitability, Diamonds accrual, BTC attribution, or compatibility.

20. Incidents; Disputes; Evidence

• 20.1 Evidence. For disputes involving Mining Work delivery, settlement, telemetry, Diamonds, subscriptions, promo-code benefits, referrals, connected hardware, or account activity, we may require timestamps in UTC, screenshots, device model, iOS version, App version, output address, txids, Stratum logs, pool identifiers, Apple receipt information, promo-code identifiers, and other evidence reasonably needed to investigate.
• 20.2 Records hierarchy. Unless mandatory law requires otherwise, authoritative records control in this order: Bitcoin timechain records; public-pool or Private Pool records; accepted Share records; Stratum server logs; backend settlement and entitlement records; Apple, StoreKit, RevenueCat, and server purchase records; server telemetry; App UI cache; local device data; user screenshots; and user calculations.
• 20.3 Automated operational determinations. Operational determinations may be made by Company software, backend systems, automated monitoring, pool records, settlement systems, fraud controls, or other authoritative records. Manual review, if any, does not mean that management manually pays users, manually transfers user BTC, operates a user payment account, or assumes custody.
• 20.4 Cooperation. Failure to provide requested evidence may limit our ability to investigate and may result in closing the dispute based on available records.
• 20.5 On-chain finality. We cannot reverse, cancel, redirect, or recover confirmed Bitcoin transactions.
• 20.6 Goodwill corrections. Any free rental, extension, Diamonds adjustment, promo-code replacement, VIP status adjustment, or other in-App correction is a goodwill or operational correction only. It is not an admission of liability, waiver, precedent, cash compensation, BTC compensation, or external-value payment.
• 20.7 Mandatory rights preserved. Nothing in this Section limits mandatory legal rights you may have under applicable consumer law or the dispute process in Section 28.

21. Account Deletion; Termination

• 21.1 User deletion; permanent loss. If you delete your account after the App shows the deletion warning and confirmation flow, deletion is intended to be permanent. The Company has no practical ability or obligation to restore deleted or anonymized account data, even if the deletion was accidental, mistaken, or later regretted. App history, miner history, pool history, rental history, Diamonds, unredeemed Diamonds, promotional benefits, VIP status, unwithdrawn sats or BTC attribution, settlement status, benefit history, leaderboards, telemetry associations, miner records, virtual miner assignments, logs, and other account data may be permanently deleted or anonymized and may become unrecoverable by you and by the Company, except where limited retention is required or permitted by law, security, fraud prevention, accounting, dispute handling, or technical integrity.
• 21.2 Subscriptions after deletion. Account deletion does not automatically cancel Apple subscriptions. You are solely responsible for cancelling subscriptions through Apple. If your account is deleted while a subscription, rented miner, Diamonds, VIP status, promo-code benefit, or other paid or promotional entitlement remains active, you may lose access to the related miners, history, Diamonds, sats attribution, BTC attribution, telemetry, logs, and benefits. The Company may be unable to credit, restore, calculate, or settle any related Diamonds, sats, BTC, entitlement, or history after deletion.
• 21.3 No recovery duty. The App may warn you before deletion, but once deletion is confirmed, loss of access to account-linked items is a consequence of your request. The Company does not maintain a wallet, custodial account, escrow account, or separate recoverable account balance for deleted users.
• 21.4 Company termination. We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access at any time, with or without prior notice, for violation of these Terms, payment disputes, sanctions risk, security risk, legal requirement, promotional abuse, beta-code abuse, referral abuse, benefit abuse, payout-address risk, operational risk, or service discontinuation.
• 21.5 Effect of termination. Termination or deletion may result in loss of access to the App, rentals, miners, Diamonds, VIP status, promo-code benefits, sats attribution, BTC attribution, leaderboards, referrals, benefits, logs, telemetry, and non-restorable App benefits, subject to Apple rules and applicable law.

22. Privacy

• 22.1 Privacy Policy. Our handling of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy at https://bitcoinist.app/privacy/.
• 22.2 Operational data. We may process account data, device data, Apple identifiers, purchase receipts, support communications, telemetry, pool records, Stratum records, blockchain addresses, transaction IDs, fraud signals, and analytics data as needed to operate the App, provide support, prevent abuse, comply with law, and improve the service.
• 22.3 Blockchain data. Bitcoin transactions are public and may reveal information about addresses, amounts, and transaction history. We do not control public blockchain data and cannot delete public blockchain data.
• 22.4 SDKs and tracking technologies. The App may include Company-operated tracking tools and third-party SDKs, APIs, pixels, server-to-server integrations, attribution links, deep links, ad mediation tools, analytics tools, crash reporting tools, subscription tools, remote configuration tools, fraud-prevention tools, sanctions-screening tools, and similar technologies. These may be provided by vendors such as RevenueCat, AppsFlyer, Firebase/Google, Branch, AppLovin MAX and its mediated ad networks, Apple frameworks, advertising networks, analytics providers, fraud-prevention providers, and other service providers we add or replace over time.
• 22.5 Data collected through SDKs and integrations. Depending on your device settings, consent choices, App version, country, and enabled features, these tools may collect or receive account identifiers, App user IDs, Apple identifiers, advertising identifiers where permitted, IDFV, device model, device name where permitted, operating system, app version, bundle ID, IP address, approximate location derived from IP address or device/network signals, language, country, time zone, carrier/network data, install source, campaign data, referral source, deep-link data, app opens, sessions, screen views, clicks, impressions, rewarded ad views, ad revenue, purchase events, subscription status, receipt data, Apple receipt files, product IDs, entitlement status, trial, renewal, cancellation and refund events, paywall views, Remote Config assignments, A/B test groups, crash logs, non-fatal errors, stack traces, custom logs, support events, pool telemetry, payout-address events, fraud signals, sanctions-screening signals, and other operational or diagnostic data.
• 22.6 Uses of SDK data. We and our service providers may use this data to operate the App, process purchases and subscriptions, validate entitlements, attribute installs and campaigns, measure advertising performance, prevent fraud, detect abuse, operate rewarded ads, calculate ad revenue, route deep links, personalize or test paywalls and feature flags, analyze funnels and retention, diagnose crashes, monitor mining and settlement flows, enforce these Terms, comply with law, screen sanctions risk, report to authorities or service providers where permitted or required, and improve the App.
• 22.7 Sharing with vendors and networks. Data may be shared with or processed by SDK providers, ad networks, attribution partners, analytics providers, payment/subscription infrastructure, cloud providers, fraud-prevention providers, sanctions-screening providers, public pool providers, hashrate suppliers, support tools, and other vendors. Some vendors may process data in countries outside your country of residence. Vendor availability and behavior may change, and SDKs may be added, removed, replaced, or reconfigured without prior notice where permitted by law and Apple rules.
• 22.8 ATT and consent. Where Apple or applicable law requires consent, including App Tracking Transparency permission for tracking across apps or websites, we will request or rely on the required permission mechanism. If you decline ATT or other consent, some tracking, personalization, attribution, ad revenue, rewarded ad availability, campaign measurement, deep-linking, or analytics features may be limited, unavailable, less accurate, or replaced by privacy-preserving or aggregated measurement.
• 22.9 No fingerprinting commitment. We do not intend to use SDKs or our own systems to fingerprint users in violation of Apple rules. If a third-party SDK, ad network, supplier, or integration behaves incorrectly, violates platform rules, misreports data, or creates compliance risk, we may disable, remove, restrict, replace, or report that provider, but we are not responsible for third-party misconduct beyond non-waivable legal obligations.
• 22.10 Data retention and legal requests. Account data, purchase records, Apple receipt data, telemetry, settlement records, blockchain addresses, transaction IDs, fraud signals, support records, and security logs may be retained where required or permitted for legal compliance, tax/accounting, fraud prevention, sanctions controls, security, disputes, chargebacks, technical integrity, or business records. We may preserve, disclose, or share information where legally required or permitted, including in response to subpoenas, court orders, regulator requests, law-enforcement requests, security incidents, sanctions reviews, or abuse investigations.
• 22.11 Privacy Policy controls. The Privacy Policy, App Store privacy label, ATT prompt, in-App consent screens, and device settings may provide additional information or controls. You agree that use of the App involves the data practices described in these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the App Store privacy disclosure, and applicable in-App prompts.
• 22.12 Privacy Policy priority. The Privacy Policy controls for detailed personal-data processing disclosures where it provides more specific information than these Terms, except that these Terms control the commercial and contractual nature of the App relationship.

23. Intellectual Property

• 23.1 Ownership. The App, Website, software, designs, text, graphics, videos, trademarks, logos, interfaces, mining allocation systems, telemetry systems, settlement systems, fraud controls, and related content are owned by the Company or its licensors, except for content owned by third parties.
• 23.2 License. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the App for personal use in accordance with these Terms and Apple's applicable terms.
• 23.3 Restrictions. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the App except where expressly permitted by law.
• 23.4 Third-party marks. Bitcoin, Apple, App Store, TestFlight, Ocean Mining, Braiins, RevenueCat, AppsFlyer, Firebase, Google, Branch, AppLovin, and other third-party names, marks, protocols, software, or services are owned by their respective owners. Reference to a third party does not imply sponsorship, endorsement, partnership, or responsibility unless expressly stated.
• 23.5 User Content warranty. You represent that you have the rights needed for any User Content you submit or configure and that your User Content does not infringe or violate third-party rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, law, or these Terms.

24. Apple Terms; Third-Party Beneficiary

• 24.1 Apple terms. Your use of the App is also subject to Apple's applicable terms, including Apple Media Services terms, App Store rules, and any applicable Apple licensed application end-user terms.
• 24.2 Apple not responsible. Apple is not responsible for the App, Website, support, maintenance, claims, losses, liabilities, mining activity, settlement, Diamonds, Promotional Benefits, email signup, waitlist communications, or third-party claims relating to the App, except as required by Apple's own terms or applicable law.
• 24.3 Third-party beneficiary. To the extent required by Apple's standard end-user license terms, Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce relevant provisions against you.

25. Disclaimers

• 25.1 As-is service. The App, Website, Mining Work services, telemetry, support, Diamonds, Promotional Benefits, in-App benefits, estimates, software systems, settlement systems, and integrations are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis to the maximum extent permitted by law.
• 25.2 No warranties. We disclaim warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uninterrupted service, error-free operation, profitability, BTC outcomes, payout timing, settlement timing, pool performance, third-party performance, data accuracy, wallet compatibility, address compatibility, and connected-hardware compatibility except where warranties cannot legally be excluded.
• 25.3 No wallet recovery or transaction reversal. The Company cannot recover wallets, keys, seed phrases, backups, third-party exchange accounts, or BTC sent to an incorrect, incompatible, compromised, or inaccessible address. Bitcoin transactions cannot be reversed by the Company.
• 25.4 Mandatory rights preserved. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies rights that cannot be excluded, restricted, or modified under applicable law.

26. Limitation of Liability

• 26.1 Excluded damages. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company and Covered Parties are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or lost-profit damages; loss of data; loss of keys; loss of BTC due to address errors; market losses; pool outages; third-party failures; chargebacks; refund denials; promotional benefit loss; deletion-related loss; or inability to use the App.
• 26.2 Liability cap. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company's total liability for any claim relating to the App or these Terms is limited to the greater of: (a) amounts you paid to the Company through Apple for the specific service giving rise to the claim during the three months before the claim; or (b) USD 100.
• 26.3 Non-excludable liability. Nothing excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law, including liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, or other non-excludable legal rights.
• 26.4 Covered parties. The protections in this Section 26 apply to the Company and Covered Parties.

26A. Indemnity; Covered Parties

• 26A.1 Indemnity. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company and Covered Parties from and against claims, losses, liabilities, damages, penalties, fines, costs, expenses, and reasonable legal fees arising from or related to your use of the App, violation of these Terms, violation of law, User Content, Private Pool organization, connected hardware, payout address, wallet, tax obligations, misleading statements, referrals, promotions, promo codes, beta codes, email or waitlist submissions, unauthorized automation, infringement, fraud, sanctions violations, or third-party claims caused by your conduct.
• 26A.2 Covered-party protection. All disclaimers, releases, limitations of liability, indemnities, dispute-resolution protections, evidence rules, records-control rules, and operational discretion rights in these Terms apply to the Company and Covered Parties to the maximum extent permitted by law.

27. Changes to These Terms

• 27.1 Updates. We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes may be notified through the App, Website, email, or App Store update notes where practical. Continued use after the effective date of updated Terms means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept updated Terms, stop using the App.
• 27.2 Feature changes. We may change, restrict, suspend, or discontinue features prospectively where practical, subject to Apple rules and applicable law. Where required by mandatory consumer law, non-waivable rights remain preserved.

28. Governing Law; Dispute Resolution

• 28.1 Governing law. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, these Terms and any dispute or claim relating to the App, Website, rentals, Mining Work, Diamonds, subscriptions, pool participation, settlement, account deletion, termination, or support are governed by the laws applicable in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, and applicable federal laws of the United Arab Emirates, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.
• 28.2 Mandatory informal resolution. Before starting any formal proceeding, you must first contact legal@bitcoinist.app with a clear description of the issue, the account involved, the transaction or rental involved, the evidence relied on, and the relief requested. The parties will attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days.
• 28.3 Consumer rights. Nothing in this Section limits mandatory consumer rights, regulator access, chargeback rights handled by Apple, or rights that cannot be waived under applicable law.
• 28.4 Binding arbitration and venue. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, disputes must be resolved by final and binding private arbitration seated in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, conducted in English by one arbitrator. Court proceedings are allowed only to compel arbitration, enforce or challenge an arbitral award, seek urgent protective relief, bring an eligible small-claims matter, or where mandatory law does not allow arbitration.
• 28.5 Individual proceedings and protective relief. To the maximum extent permitted by law, claims must be handled individually and not as class, collective, consolidated, representative, or mass proceedings. The Company may seek urgent protective relief in any competent court for misuse of the App, intellectual property violations, security threats, unauthorized access, service abuse, sanctions risk, or infrastructure protection.
• 28.6 Jury waiver and coordinated proceedings. To the maximum extent permitted by law, if any claim proceeds in court rather than arbitration, each party waives any right to a jury trial. If similar claims are brought, the parties agree to seek fair and efficient procedures that avoid duplicative proceedings, inconsistent rulings, and unnecessary costs, subject to mandatory law.

29. General Terms

• 29.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and in-App disclosures form the agreement between you and the Company for use of the App and Website.
• 29.2 Severability. If any provision is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain effective.
• 29.3 No waiver. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.
• 29.4 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale of assets, financing, reorganization, legal transfer of business, or change of control where legally permitted.
• 29.5 Contact. For support: support@bitcoinist.app. For privacy requests: privacy@bitcoinist.app. For legal notices: legal@bitcoinist.app.
• 29.6 Interface wording. We may update App labels, feature names, button text, and other interface wording without changing the legal nature of the service described in these Terms.
• 29.7 Survival. Sections concerning definitions, no custody, no financial service, no advice, Diamonds restrictions, records control, taxes, compliance, privacy, intellectual property, account deletion, termination, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, covered parties, dispute resolution, governing law, evidence, and any accrued rights survive account deletion, suspension, termination, or discontinued use.
• 29.8 No third-party beneficiaries. Except for Apple and Covered Parties where expressly stated, no third party has rights under these Terms.
• 29.9 Interface labels. Interface labels such as "earnings," "balance," "withdraw," "claim," "reward," "payout," "miner," "pool," "bonus," "VIP," or similar labels are shorthand operational labels only. They do not create a wallet, custody relationship, payment account, money-transmission service, investment product, ownership interest, or guarantee.