# What is an eviction on Square Town?

> An eviction on Square Town is taking someone's square by paying double what they paid. How the price doubles, what the feed announces, and how other walls compare.

Source: https://square.pov.town/glossary/eviction

An **eviction** (on Square Town) is taking an occupied square by paying **double** what its current owner paid. The evicted site is removed from the wall and announced in the live feed, the evictor's favicon appears in the same cell, and the price to evict *them* is double again. Square Town ([square.pov.town](/)) has no bidding, no negotiation and no refund to the evicted — just the rule: 2× the last price, always.

> **TL;DR:** $1 → $2 → $4 → $8 → … Ten evictions turn a $1 square into a $1,024 square. Popular spots price themselves.

## How it works on Square Town

Click any favicon on the wall and choose evict. The price shown is exactly twice the per-square price the current owner paid; you take their exact footprint. Payment goes through Stripe like a normal purchase. When it completes, their listing is marked *evicted*, their `/go/` link answers "Gone (probably evicted 💀)", and the feed posts a line like "💀 newsite.com evicted oldsite.com for $2" — pushed over WebSockets to every open browser. Their [deed](/glossary/deed) page still exists and shows the status, views, clicks and kisses they collected.

Only paid listings can be evicted, and only one eviction at a time: if someone else is mid-checkout on the same square, you're told so ("Vultures everywhere"). The [Throne](/glossary/the-throne) follows the same rule from a $100 base: $200, $400, $800 and so on. There is no protection window and no way to buy immunity — kissing an icon keeps it in colour, it doesn't keep it safe. Full rules at [/how-it-works](/how-it-works).

## Where else it appears

Pay-more-to-take-over is an old idea. As of August 2026: earth.tattoo evicts geographic tiles at $1 → $2 → $4 → $8 (crypto only, prior owner emailed); TymeSqr doubles the price but pays the evicted owner 1.5×; Tocka raises a pixel by 1¢ per takeover; Satoshi's Place lets anyone overpaint for one satoshi; TabRush adds 40 % per sale "until someone steals it"; Ethereum Pixels (2017) auto-incremented the price on every ownership change. Harberger-tax sites (Sherwood, This Artwork Is Always On Sale) keep everything permanently for sale at an owner-set price. Square Town's version is the plainest: fixed 2×, on a favicon wall, with the eviction shouted to everyone.

## Example

You buy the cell next to the Throne's aura for $1. A competitor evicts you for $2. You take it back for $4. They come back at $8. At this point the square has earned Square Town $15 and both of you have been publicly deposed twice. The feed enjoyed it. See [/blog/economics-of-eviction](/blog/economics-of-eviction) for when to stop.

## FAQ

### How much does it cost to evict someone?

Exactly double what the current owner paid for that square. A $1 square costs $2 to evict; the Throne starts at $100 so the first eviction costs $200.

### Do I get my money back if I'm evicted?

No. Square Town pays out nothing to the evicted owner. Your deed still shows the analytics your square collected.

### Can I protect my square from eviction?

No. The only defence is that evicting you costs double what you paid — so if you were evicted and take the square back, the next attacker pays double again.

### Is an evicted site announced?

Yes. Every eviction appears in the live feed for everyone watching, naming both domains and the price.