Oceans of Wisdom

I was like ok wtf

it was literally "I got bored"

and when we looked into why

but it terminated itself

and it was supposed to be managing sub-agents

side note a colleague was running an agent we are working on earlier today

LOL

so there is that

but you know half an hour from now

yeah pro is going to do a better job sorry gray

work is just work

but that is not hard per se

the rest is like an infinite amount of work

it is the only hard part IMHO

we need @[6529Guardian] to look at regulatory

and I am happy with the conceptual outcome

so I have now crossed two ideas that were in my mind for a long time

i sent to pro to summarize - will post it in the morning

get on-chain or NGMI t-shirt would be appropriate

we can pass them

these are not huge numbers


interesting!

i dunno dude, this is like 4th level issue! :)

we will obviously bceome a bigger art buyer than the moma

get a bit of traction

that if we get going a bit

so it seems quite obvious to me

The **annual art acquisition budget of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)** is not fixed and varies by year because it depends heavily on **donor gifts, restricted acquisition funds, and occasional deaccessioning**. However, there are some concrete benchmarks. **Typical scale** • Around **$30–40 million per year** in direct acquisition spending in many recent reporting periods. ([Wikipedia][1]) • Example: **$32 million spent on art acquisitions in the fiscal year ending June 2012.** ([Wikipedia][1]) **How MoMA actually funds acquisitions** Unlike many museums with a single centralized “buying budget,” MoMA’s acquisitions usually come from a mix of sources: • **Dedicated acquisition endowments** (department-specific funds) • **Trustee donations earmarked for purchases** • **Named acquisition funds** (e.g., photography fund, media fund) • **Gifts of art** (a very large share of what enters the collection) • **Occasional sales of works (deaccessioning)** to fund new purchases Because of that structure, the **real purchasing power in a given year can exceed the base acquisition budget** if trustees or collectors fund specific works. **Context** • MoMA’s total operating budget historically runs roughly **$135 M–$180 M annually** depending on the year. ([Artsy][2]) • Acquisition spending is therefore typically **~15–25 % of the operating budget** when donor-supported purchases are included. **Quick comparison** | Museum | Typical annual acquisitions | | | ------------------------------ | --------------------------- | ---------------- | | MoMA | ~$30–40M typical baseline | | | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | ~$30–70M depending on year | ([Wikipedia][3]) | ✅ **Bottom line:** MoMA’s core acquisition budget is roughly **tens of millions per year (≈$30–40M baseline)** but can fluctuate significantly depending on **donor-funded purchases and gifts.** If you want, I can also show you **which museums in the world spend the most on acquisitions annually** (the numbers are surprisingly concentrated in a few institutions). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Museum of Modern Art" [2]: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-museum-modern-art-made-drastic-cuts-order-weather-covid-19?utm_source=chatgpt.com "To Weather COVID-19, Museum of Modern Art Slashes ..." [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Metropolitan Museum of Art"

at about 10% the MoMA's annual acquisition budget

you realize (or perhaps do not realize) that we have been running already in our tiny little world

"you can just not grow trees"

it is like "no, craiglist is not fair competitor in classified; it does not first grow trees, cut them down, turn them into paper, ship them to your down, print ink on them, put them in truck, put them on your bike, throw them on your porch to tell you yesterday's news"

about we can do things the moma can't

but this is exactly what i mean

that "noooo, it is not fair, you can't count the aligned nodes"

and you see there will be moaning and complaining from 'normal museums'

a boy can dream!

Hermitage is 3 million objects

it seems possible

maybe someday the largest museum in the world

"top decentralized museum in the world"

"international scale"

it would be like renaming beeple to "daily artist"

we should not burn it for something generic

almost impossible to create this

in terms of name recognition

beeple etc

xcopy

it has to be up there with top 5-10 words in the whole NFT space