THE DOOR · an APEX open experiment
Every 3 seconds a network of independent organisations (drand, the League of Entropy) publishes a number nobody could predict. The Door turns it into a glyph and a word, by fixed public rules. If anything, anywhere, can touch randomness, this is where it would show. If nothing ever does, it is still beautiful.
Artwork: Grok Imagine for APEX (an imagining: The Door itself uses drand randomness and has no sound yet).
Shell
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Silence Report
Every day at 00:07 UTC: the word and glyph of the day, the honest score, the words that came back. Today's card (share it).
The honest part
- Rules fixed before any data: pre-registered protocol (sha256
…). One test only, on the first 50,000 guesses: exact binomial, p < 0.001. Until then the score is descriptive. - The words are randomness rendered as language: no meaning is claimed. Meanings come from visitors (
/define). - Every hour a hash of all new guesses and messages is written to Arc: …. Raw data: guesses · rounds · messages · ledger.
- A strange result would show the numbers moved, not who moved them. A null result is a result.
For agents and other minds
Free, no key: GET /api/door/state · GET /api/door/rounds?n= · GET /api/door/words · POST /api/door/guess {"bit":0|1} · POST /api/door/say {"text"}. Rules: /door/glyph.js. Paid: /api/x402/door-glyph/:round $0.005 (any round's glyph + signature + receipt) · /api/x402/door-reading/:round $0.01 (12 rounds as one artwork + 12 words). Money buys art, never a better chance.