FAQ

What is xmrbid.lol?

An open, privacy-first directory, ordered by what each listing paid to be there. It is advertising space, sold at a published price, to an audience that came looking for exactly this.

Anything can be advertised here. A tool, an app, a service, a wallet, a shop, a repository, a community, an onion address. The privacy is in how the board works, not in what it will carry: paying does not put you on file, and reading it does not put anybody on file. What the board will not carry is the short list on the takedowns page, and it is about conduct rather than subject.

So the top listing is the best one?

No, and nothing here says otherwise. The top listing is the one that paid most. Rank is a fact about money, not about quality, which is why the amount is printed beside every row.

Who decides what gets listed?

Nobody. A bid settles and the board changes. There is no queue and no review. Things come off the board only for breaking the published rules, and every removal is posted with its reason on the public record.

What does it cost?

The cheapest place on the board is 0.06 XMR, and it is the same figure whether the board is empty or full. What everybody else is paying does not change what it costs to join: an empty place at the bottom is worth the floor whatever the listing above it paid. Anything above the floor is allowed and buys whatever rank that amount reaches, and taking #1 costs 0.01 XMR more than the current top bid.

Why Monero and not a card?

Because a card creates a record with several owners that outlives the campaign, and this board is for people who cannot or would rather not create one. Monero is what lets the payment exist without a payer attached to it.

How long until my listing appears?

After 10 confirmations, roughly twenty minutes. The invoice page updates itself while you wait.

What if I send too much, or too little?

Overpay and the full amount counts toward your rank. Underpay and the invoice stays open for the rest; if it expires first it settles for whatever arrived. Money sent is never money lost.

Can I get a refund?

No, and this is not a policy so much as a fact: there is no payment identity, no processor and no reversal mechanism, so a refund is not something we decline to give.

Somebody outbid me. Do I pay again from scratch?

No. A raise charges only the difference, and the difference still buys the full rank. From Manage a listing there is a button that works out what it would take to be first again. A raise has to add at least a tenth of what the listing already holds.

I lost my claim token.

There is no reset, but there is a way back: prove you control the thing the listing points at, with a DNS record, a file, or the challenge string put on the page itself. A new token is minted and the old one stops working the same second.

My listing is an onion service. None of those checks reach it.

Then it goes through the by-hand route on the same page, which is the same standard read by a person: serve the challenge on the address itself, or sign it with a key the listing published before the request. Nothing that first appears in the request counts as evidence.

It is slower on purpose. A request is announced on the listing's own page for 72 hours before anybody can answer it, and if the token is not actually lost, its holder ends the request by unlocking the listing. The answer, either way, is published on the record, and the new token is collected by whoever filed the request rather than sent to them.

Do you know who I am?

No. There is no account, no email, no card and no address column in any table. The whole list of what is stored is on the privacy page, and it is short enough to read in a minute.

Do you track what I click?

Each listing has one counter that goes up. There is no row per click, no time and no address, so the dataset that would say who clicked what does not exist here to be handed over.

Why is there no cookie banner?

Because there are no cookies. Not for sessions, not for the theme, which lives in your browser and never travels with a request. Consent has nothing to ask about.

What about Cloudflare?

It sits in front of the clearnet site for DDoS protection and it terminates TLS, so it sees and logs every request to this domain. We keep no such record; they do. The onion service reaches the same board without passing through them, which is why it exists.

Will my payment show up as mine?

Monero carries no sender, so no. The published receipt proves a transaction paid this board and reveals nothing about who sent it. You can also decline the public receipt at bid time, in which case the signature is never made at all.

How do I know the payments are real?

Every settled bid carries a Monero InProof, listed at /proof. Check one with check_tx_proof in any wallet, against any node. The amount comes back from the chain rather than from us.

How do I know the traffic numbers are real?

You do not have to take them from us at all: every outbound click carries utm_source=xmrbid.lol, so what we report lands in your own analytics too. The daily figures are published at /stats and sealed in a hash chain, so a corrected number breaks the chain.

Could you not just bid on yourselves?

Yes, and no signature can prove otherwise. That is precisely why every payment is published one at a time instead of as a total: the pattern is there to be read.

My thing does not fit any category.

Bid for a new one. It costs 1 XMR, the duplicate check runs while you type and costs nothing, and the bid lands on your own listing whether the category opens or not.

The form asks for everything a bid asks for, because it buys a listing as well as a decision: the link, a name, a line about it, a description, a handle and any profile links. If the link is already on the board, the payment raises that listing rather than creating a second one, and the claim token from its invoice is what lets it move into the new ranking. Without the token the money still counts and the listing stays where it is, which is the same rule that stops anybody paying to move somebody else's listing.

Why was my category refused?

Almost always because it was an existing category under a different word, and the refusal names which one. Every answer is published on the public record with its reason.