Every Bitok Arena entry is a Bitcoin transaction. The Bitcoin network records what every transaction contains — and what it does not contain. Understanding this distinction matters for participants who want to know what information their competition activity makes publicly visible, and what remains private by default. The answer is precise and worth stating clearly rather than leaving to assumption.
The Bitcoin blockchain is a public ledger. Any transaction ever confirmed on it is permanently readable by anyone with a block explorer — which is anyone with an internet browser. That transparency is what makes the Bitok Arena leaderboard auditable. It is also what every participant should understand about what their entry reveals before they send the first satoshi.
What Is Recorded On-Chain
A confirmed Bitcoin transaction contains: the sending address (the bc1q address your wallet generated), the receiving address (the Bitok Arena master wallet address), the amount in satoshis, the transaction fee paid, the block it was included in, and a timestamp. All of this is publicly visible on any Bitcoin block explorer — mempool.space, blockchain.com, or any equivalent — by anyone who has the transaction ID or who looks up either address involved.
This means: the leaderboard can be independently verified. If your address appears in first place with a total of 0.05 BTC, any participant can confirm this by looking up the master wallet address on a block explorer and observing the transactions received from your address during the round window. The public nature of the leaderboard is not a feature Bitok Arena added — it is an inherent property of the Bitcoin blockchain that the competition is built on top of.
Using a fresh address for each round is a choice available to any participant. Most wallets generate new receive addresses automatically — the relevant step is verifying which address a send will originate from before confirming.
What Is Not Recorded On-Chain
The Bitcoin blockchain does not record: your name, your email address, your physical location, your IP address, your identity documents, or any information about why you sent the transaction. Bitcoin addresses are pseudonymous — they are strings of characters, not names. The blockchain knows that address X sent Y satoshis to address Z. It does not know who controls address X.
Whether your identity can be linked to your address depends entirely on what you did before the transaction, not on what the blockchain recorded. If you withdrew Bitcoin from an exchange that has your KYC information to your competition wallet address, that exchange knows the connection. If you received Bitcoin from someone who knows you and then competed, that person has context the blockchain does not provide. The blockchain itself is neutral — it records the technical facts and nothing more.
The privacy of a Bitok Arena entry is the privacy of the Bitcoin address used to make it — no more and no less. The blockchain records the address and the amount. Identity is a layer above the blockchain, determined by how the address was funded and who has context about its ownership. A fresh address funded through privacy-conscious means leaves the blockchain with exactly what it always has: a transaction, an amount, and a timestamp. Everything else is outside the chain.
For participants who want their competition activity to be private, the relevant question is not "what does Bitok Arena store about me?" — it is "what does my address history reveal?" The leaderboard shows what the blockchain shows. Nothing else is available to anyone, including the competition itself.
The blockchain records the transaction. The transaction is public. Your identity is a separate question that the blockchain does not answer — and that only you can control through how you manage the addresses you compete from.