Before you spend anything
Everything on this page is about one property of Bitcoin: a transaction that confirms cannot be undone. No support request, no operator, and no part of Inscribe can reverse one. That is what makes the minutes before you sign the ones that matter.
1. Paying a fee with an asset
Section titled “1. Paying a fee with an asset”How it happens. Bitcoin spends an output whole. An output holding an inscription or a token balance looks exactly like ordinary bitcoin to software that only checks the amount. Pick it to cover a fee and the asset goes with the change.
What Inscribe does. No automatic funding flow picks an output holding an inscription, Rune or token balance. Outputs proven to be plain bitcoin are used first; outputs nothing could be established about are used only after those; outputs with a detected asset are not used at all.
What it cannot do. When you send from your wallet’s own send screen, your wallet picks the outputs. Inscribe warns you and lists what is at risk, then gets out of the way, because it cannot change that selection.
What you do. Fund orders from an address holding only bitcoin where you can. If you see the warning before your wallet opens, read it rather than clicking through it.
2. Confusing the two addresses
Section titled “2. Confusing the two addresses”How it happens. Your wallet has a payment address for spendable bitcoin and a Taproot Ordinals address for what you own. Sending an asset to the wrong one, or expecting to spend the satoshis sitting under your inscriptions, both come from treating them as one balance.
What Inscribe does. It reads both, keeps them apart, never adds the two balances together, and signs each action from the address that actually holds what it moves.
What you do. Check the receiving address on the confirmation screen. It is named there for this reason.
Wallets and the two addresses.
3. Not reading the total
Section titled “3. Not reading the total”How it happens. A quote has three lines and only two of them are fees. People compare the wrong number, or assume a bigger file costs the same as a small one.
What Inscribe does. It itemises the network fee, the service fee and the inscription output, totals them, and shows that total before your wallet opens. The wallet is then asked for exactly that amount.
What you do. Compare the amount in your wallet’s send screen against the Total Cost you just read. If they differ, reject it.
4. Paying twice
Section titled “4. Paying twice”How it happens. A payment does not seem to register, so it gets sent again. Now two payments exist and only one is the order.
What Inscribe does. It watches the commit address every ten seconds and accepts an unconfirmed payment, so the usual cause is impatience rather than a lost payment. If several payments land, it uses the one matching the quote, or the smallest that covers it, specifically so an accidental second payment is not swallowed. Overpayment is returned to the address that funded the order where it is large enough to send back.
What you do. Never pay a second time to fix a first. Go to recovery routes.
Three things that are not emergencies
Section titled “Three things that are not emergencies”- The status still says “in progress” after your transaction confirmed. That is correct. Inscribe waits for the indexer and your wallet to agree before it calls an order done.
- You closed the tab. The work continues without your browser. Home lists the orders this browser started.
- The hour ran out. That hour is the life of the price quote, not the life of the order. Nothing is cancelled and no key is discarded.
Two things that genuinely need action
Section titled “Two things that genuinely need action”- Your payment is not confirming. The fee rate is too low for current conditions. Use Fix My Payment or Bump Stuck TX.
- You sent less than the quote. Top the same address up to the quoted amount.
The one thing with no recovery route
Section titled “The one thing with no recovery route”A transaction you signed and broadcast that did what you told it to. If you deliberately spent an asset-bearing output in the Advanced TX Builder, or approved a wallet send from an address holding assets after being warned, the result is final. The fee is spent and the asset has moved.
Everything else on this site has a route back. That one does not.