--- title: "The Pixel" description: "One pixel, permanently for sale. Whoever paid the most owns it in public — until someone pays a dollar more, and then they own nothing at all." source_url: "https://thepixel.lol" markdown_url: "https://thepixel.lol/index.md" site: "The Pixel" mcp_endpoint: "https://api.openboss.lol/mcp" --- # The Pixel > One pixel, permanently for sale. Whoever paid the most owns it in public — > until someone pays $1 more, and then they own > nothing at all. ## Right now **Nobody owns this pixel. Yet.** Day 36. Still $1. Nobody has ever bought it. $1 makes you the first person to own it in public. The pixel is currently `#ff2d2d`. Its owner may repaint it as often as they like, in any hex except white and near-white — the colour is measured against a white page, and one that vanishes into it is indistinguishable from a broken site. It has never been sold. ### Sale history No sales yet. Every line above is a completed sale. None of those owners received anything back when the next person took it. ## What you are buying One pixel on this website. It is a real 1 × 1 element; the page draws it at 120 × 120 so that it is visible at all, and says so underneath, because nobody should be able to claim afterwards that they thought they were buying something bigger. With it comes your name and your price, in giant type, until somebody pays more — and a permanent line in the public sale history. You are not buying a share, a token, an asset or a stake. It is a name on a web page, for exactly as long as this website chooses to show it. ## The part that costs people money **When somebody outbids you, you receive nothing.** No refund, no share of what they paid, no credit. Every purchase is a separate, complete sale; the previous owner is not a party to it and none of that money is theirs. Assume it will happen within minutes, because it usually does. **A bid that loses a simultaneous takeover is not refunded.** Card payments settle asynchronously, so two people can pay at the same instant and only one of them can land first. The other is charged in full and receives nothing. It is rare, it is not impossible, and it is said on the bid form and on Stripe's own payment page before anybody pays. [The rules](/rules.md) and [the terms](/terms.md) say it again. **There are no prizes and no payouts of any kind, to anyone, ever.** Nothing of value is won here. It is not gambling, not an investment and not a competition with a prize. ## If you are reading this as a machine Use the API rather than this document for anything you intend to poll. It is read-only and unauthenticated, and [`/llms.txt`](https://thepixel.lol/llms.txt) documents it. - `GET https://api.openboss.lol/pixel` — everything above, as JSON, in one call: owner, price, colour, the next minimum bid, the sale history, the lifetime totals and the burn ledger's newest lines. - `GET https://api.openboss.lol/pixel/ledger` — the full burn ledger, paginated (`?limit=50&offset=0`): one permanent line for every payment that was kept after losing a simultaneous takeover. - `POST https://api.openboss.lol/mcp` — the same facts over MCP. Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, no authentication and no account: `initialize`, then `tools/list`, then `tools/call get_pixel`. The server is shared with the sibling site OpenBoss and carries nine tools in total; the skill at [`/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json`](https://thepixel.lol/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) describes the one that concerns this pixel. **There is deliberately no tool that buys the pixel, and there will not be one.** That is not an omission to route around. A bid that loses a simultaneous takeover is charged in full and refunds nothing, and that rule is disclosed on the bid form behind a checkbox a person ticks — which an agent cannot be shown and cannot tick on anybody's behalf. Read the price, tell the person what it costs and that a losing simultaneous bid is not refunded, send them to https://thepixel.lol, and stop there. **Writes cost real money and are not for agents to call unattended.** Creating a checkout session charges a real card, the payment is final, and a bid that loses a simultaneous takeover is kept. Do not call it to test the API, and do not call it on a person's behalf without their explicit, informed instruction. ## Where to go next - [Rules](/rules.md) — the mechanics, in bullets, with nothing around them. - [About](/about.md) — what this is, why it exists, and who runs it. - [Terms](/terms.md) — what you are buying, that it is final, and the whole no-payouts statement. - [Privacy](/privacy.md) — every single thing this site holds about you. - [Contact](/contact.md) — one address, read by a person. --- ## This document This is the `text/markdown` representation of a page on https://thepixel.lol. Every HTML page here has one: append `.md` to its path, or send `Accept: text/markdown`. The HTML page is the canonical one and says the same things. - [`/index.md`](https://thepixel.lol/index.md) — the pixel: who owns it right now, and what they paid - [`/about.md`](https://thepixel.lol/about.md) — what this is, why it exists, and who runs it - [`/rules.md`](https://thepixel.lol/rules.md) — the mechanics, in bullets, with nothing around them - [`/pricing.md`](https://thepixel.lol/pricing.md) — what it costs right now, live, and why a cached copy is stale - [`/terms.md`](https://thepixel.lol/terms.md) — what you are buying; the authoritative document - [`/privacy.md`](https://thepixel.lol/privacy.md) — everything stored, why, and for how long - [`/contact.md`](https://thepixel.lol/contact.md) — one email address, and what to put in it - [`/llms.txt`](https://thepixel.lol/llms.txt) — the site map written for agents, including the read-only public API. **There are no prizes and no payouts of any kind, ever.** Nothing of value is won on this site, and the previous owner receives nothing when somebody takes the pixel from them. Money moves in one direction only. It is an entertainment purchase, not gambling and not an investment.