xmrbid.lol1 XMR ≈ $463
Not open yet. The board is being built in the open and is not taking bids.

Changelog

What changed, when, and why, with the rule changes in the same list as everything else. A board that can quietly alter what a bid buys is a board where the printed price is only ever today's price, so the changes are written down where anybody can hold them against what they paid for.

27 August 2026

The board started publishing what it costs to keep alive, and moved onto hardware that runs its own Monero node.

  • addedWhat the money buys: the domain, the server, the disk, the mail and the edge, each with what a year costs and, where there is one, a link to check the date without asking us. A board that sells positions owes its listings an answer to whether it will still be here, and everywhere else that answer is a feeling about how funded a project looks.
  • addedA budget for finding readers is listed separately from the cost of staying alive. If the advertising stopped tomorrow the board would carry on exactly as it is, and one total covering both would make surviving look more expensive than it is.
  • changedThe board runs on a machine that can hold the Monero blockchain and verify its own income, rather than asking somebody else's node what it was paid. That is the difference between a receipt this board can prove and a number it would be asking you to believe.

26 August 2026

The numbers stopped asking to be trusted: receipts against the chain, days sealed and anchored outside this server.

  • ruleA lost claim token can be replaced by proving control of what the listing points at. That changes who owns a listing: whoever holds the token, or whoever controls the destination. It is the standard a registrar uses, and it is written down rather than assumed.
  • addedEvery settled payment carries a Monero InProof, published at /proof and in /stats.json. Run check_tx_proof against any node and the amount comes back from the chain rather than from this server. Of the three proofs Monero can make, an InProof is the only one a receiver can produce, which is why a view-only board can prove its income while being unable to move it.
  • addedFinished days are sealed into a hash chain and each seal is submitted to OpenTimestamps. The chain proves an edit; the timestamp proves the chain was not rebuilt this morning. Nothing inside a system can prove the second, which is why that proof comes from a Bitcoin block somebody else paid for.
  • addedA route for the listings no automatic check reaches, an onion service or a page that only renders in a browser. It is announced on the listing for 72 hours before it can be answered, the current token ends it by being used, and the answer is published either way.
  • addedReports against listings, filed on a form and answered in public alongside category decisions. Refusals are published too, which is the part that makes the rest worth reading.
  • addedPrivacy, terms, takedowns and a warrant canary. The canary is signed with a key that is not on this server: one that was would let whoever takes the server keep signing, which is the whole thing a canary is supposed to rule out.
  • addedA machine-readable board: /api/v1, an MCP server and /llms.txt. An assistant asked for a wallet that takes Monero either guesses from months-old training or reads something current, and this is what lets it read something current and cite the page it came from.
  • changedCrawlers are out of every published figure. A modern crawler carries a full Chrome user agent, so a check that runs after the browser tokens never fires and a search engine gets counted as a person, in the visits and in the click count a rank is judged by. What is still not attempted is catching a crawler that lies about itself, because that needs every visitor fingerprinted, and the page says so in those words rather than implying a filter that does not exist.
  • changedThe domain travels with an outbound click and the path does not. A listing should see this board in its own analytics; which page somebody was reading when they left is theirs.

20 August 2026

The board opened for building, with the mechanic settled.

  • addedRank is the bid, paid in Monero to a single-use subaddress. No account, no card, no email: a listing is owned by a claim token shown once and stored only as a hash.
  • addedThirty rankings, each with a paragraph saying what belongs in it and what does not. A ranking named but not defined gets filled with whatever is nearby, which is how a directory ends up with categories that mean nothing.
  • addedIcons are captured by this server once, never hotlinked. A board that renders every listed site's favicon makes each visitor announce themselves to every listed site.
  • addedAn onion service, as a first-class way in rather than a footnote. Most directories will not carry an onion listing at all, which is a large part of why this board exists.

What this page promises

  • Rule changes are in it. Not in a separate place, not summarised as an improvement. If what a bid buys changes, the change is here with its reason.
  • Nothing is edited out. A change that turned out badly stays, with the correction under it. A list that only shows the decisions that went well is an advertisement.
  • It starts when the board did. What a bid buys was settled before the first one could be made, so the numbers moving around during the build are not in here as changes. They were never rules anybody stood under; from the day the board opened, every move is.
  • A rank already paid for keeps what it bought. Under the rules that were current when it settled, whatever this page says later. That is in the terms, not only here.