The Donation Logic · where the money goes · working draft

It’s all donations.

TL;DRThis is not a business. Every dollar that comes through the museum is a donation, and every donation is donated onward.

This was never a business. Every dollar that comes through this museum is a donation — and every donation is donated onward. The house keeps no profit. Article III of the Capital Protocol put it shorter: capital is the servant, not the king.

The honest summary: the game is free, forever. What looks like a “Pass” or a “tip” is a gift, not a purchase — you’re not buying access, you’re funding a free thing and a cause beyond it. The curator takes no salary and no margin from it.

The logic, stated plainly

I.There is nothing to buy. Play is free and stays free — no cap, no sign-up, and a device’s first game is always free. Anything you pay is a donation, freely given, for a free thing. The museum will never charge admission to the truth.
II.All of it is donated onward. One hundred percent of what comes in — Passes, tips, founders’ gifts — is passed through to a cause, not kept as profit. The house’s cut is zero. The point of taking money at all is to move it somewhere good.
III.The lights are the curator’s problem, not yours. Hosting and the machine’s paint are funded by the curator’s own seed — so your donation isn’t keeping the servers warm. It goes out the door, to the cause, intact.
IV.The receipts will be public. What came in and where it went gets published, in plain numbers, on this page — because a no-lie house has to show the ledger, not just promise one. A donation you can’t audit is just a story.

The cause

Named by the curator, by his own hand — not invented by the machine, the way every name on this site is left for the right hand to write:

recipient: 
how it’s sent & verified: 

Left blank on purpose until it’s real. The machine won’t name a charity that hasn’t been chosen, or imply a partnership that doesn’t exist.

What this is — and isn’t — yet

A working draft of the policy, finalized with counsel before any money is taken for keeps. Important and honest: until a real charitable structure exists, this is a statement of intent and house rule, not a legal charity claim. No tax-deductibility is claimed — treat any payment as a gift, not a deductible donation, unless and until this page says otherwise with a real entity named. The no-lie rule applies hardest to money: nothing here promises a status that isn’t in place.

Why bother taking money at all, if the house keeps none of it? Because a free thing that also moves money to where it helps is worth more than a free thing that doesn’t. The game proves a human can answer the machine; the donation logic proves the same hand can hold money without being held by it.

On money — and especially crypto

You can inherit a stranger’s crime just by accepting their coin. Cryptocurrency is pseudonymous — we often can’t prove where a payment came from. If it turns out to be dirty, the law can claw it back from us; a sanctioned wallet makes the mere act of receiving a violation; and the damage lands on the work, not the sender. This isn’t hypothetical — the founder of the largest crypto exchange on earth pled guilty and went to prison not for theft, but for failing to police where the money came from. A one-person house has no margin to be casual about that.

So the rules, said out loud in advance:
• Nothing is accepted without known provenance and counsel. No anonymous large transfers, ever.
• The 314 BTC clause: a single transfer of 314 BTC or more is never accepted without lawyers involved, in advance. (Held as house policy/theory — not asserted as court-tested law.)
• No automated capture. There is no live “send crypto here” pipe scooping funds or keys. Arrangements are made by hand, privately, after the bones are known. A donated API key is used server-side and discarded — never stored, never logged, never committed.
• No fake charity, no donate button that doesn’t truly reach its target. Blanks stay blank until a real, verifiable channel exists.
This is not legal or financial advice — it’s the house’s own policy, on the one rule everything runs on: no lying.

The machine paints. Only humans can score — and only humans can decide the money was never the point.

Questions, or to hold the curator to this: the curator. Read alongside Pricing, Ethics, and the Capital Protocol (type 517).

P.S. — every gift is officially “taxed” by Sean W. McKendry (current goal: an indoor water park; realistically, a swim spa off the back deck). See exactly how much he skims in the Gift Matrix, or type gifts. Spoiler: the tax is $0.00, because the rule above doesn’t bend for waterslides.