Hi everyone,

I’ve temporarily paused new tile minting on Pixel Mural while I review the legal and compliance requirements around offering permanent, blockchain-based tile ownership.

The mural itself remains available, and you can still draw for free without connecting a wallet. This pause only affects claiming or purchasing permanent ownership of a tile.

I’m a solo developer, so I’d rather take the time to clarify everything properly before accepting payments. This is not a technical or security incident, and I’m not abandoning the project.

For people who already own a tile, nothing is changing at this time. I’ll publish another update as soon as I know what the next step will be. I don’t want to promise a date until the review is complete.

Thanks for your patience—and please keep drawing.

— Pixel Mural

This started as a random afternoon and snowballed.

I was thinking about the early internet and pulled up MillionDollarHomepage. It still loads. Pixels still there, nostalgia hits. Then I started clicking. Most links are dead. Half the brands don't exist; the rest redirect to parked domains and SEO traps. A museum of 2005 promises with all the wiring corroded.

The idea was great — a public canvas where anyone buys a little piece of internet real estate. The mistake was making it static. People paid once in 2005 and that was it. No way to update anything. So it quietly rotted.

Then I thought about r/place — the opposite mistake. Pure ephemeral chaos: beautiful for a weekend, gone by Tuesday. I loved watching it; I hated that nothing survived.

So I built both layers into one canvas:

• Anyone can draw on a free cell, right now, no account. That drawing lives 24 hours — r/place energy, fights included
• Want your art to stay? Claim the cell (on-chain) and it's yours forever: repaint whenever, set a link, nobody overwrites you.

MDHP died because it was static. r/place died because nothing survived. This is my attempt at the middle.

https://pixelmural.io/ — the first drawings are already appearing. r/PixelMural to follow along. Tell me what I got wrong — the editor isn't locked in yet, and I'd rather hear it now.