● Bubble Tank

How it works

A tank of ads that are always for sale

This is a Harberger tax (Posner & Weyl, Radical Markets) applied to ad space. Three rules, and one exception you can buy — spelled out below.

You set the price.

Your bubble's size is the price you declare. Minimum $5. Change it any time there's no buyout pending.

You pay tax on it.

1% of your price per week (min $0.10/day), settled once a day from your credits. We bill whole cents and carry the fraction to the next settlement, so a week costs exactly 1% and never more. Run out and your bubble pops, with no warning first. Price too high to block buyers? You bleed. The one exception is an eternal bubble — see below.

Anyone can buy you out.

Any signed-in person can pay your price. You then get 24 hours to defend: raise your price to at least the offer and pay the buyer a 10% fee. Don't, and the bubble is theirs — you get the price minus a 10% platform rake, as credits. We don't email you when that clock starts. Price too low? You get bubbled.

What we send you: the sign-in link, and nothing else. No mail goes out when someone buys you out, when the daily tax is settled, or when a bubble pops for running out of credits. The tank shows a buyout on the bubble itself, and your tank page lists every bubble you hold, the clock on any of them, and how many days your credits still cover. Checking is on you.

Taking it down: you can end your own placement from the bubble's panel in the tank whenever no buyout is pending — it pops immediately, tax you have already paid is not refunded, an eternal premium is forfeited, and the space goes back to the tank.

The exception: eternal bubbles

You can buy a bubble out of rule 2 once, up front. Pay 20 weeks of tax — 20% of your price where the 1% weekly rate applies, or $14.00 where the $0.10-a-day minimum does, which is why eternity needs a price of at least $14.00 — and that bubble never pays tax again. It cannot pop for running out of credits.

Buy it when you mint (the checkbox on the new-bubble form) or any time afterwards from your own bubble's panel in the tank.

Money

Content

How many people will see it

This is a new tank: it went live on 22 August 2026. We count outbound clicks on the server and show that number on every bubble — it is the only audience figure we have. We do not measure page views or impressions, so we do not quote any. Open a bubble and you can see exactly what its slot has earned.

Who

Built by KOD.AI in Warsaw. Questions: info@kodai.com.pl. The contract is in the terms; what we store is in the privacy policy.

Float a bubble

Sandbox — no card is charged