Looking through the history looks a bit suspicious. Even if the questionable bids were removed, it’s still likely to be 100k+ for the username!
Edit: Closer to $15k right now lol.
I bid 5
Best I can do is $3.50.
if you’re wondering who this charity is supporting like I was, they, apparently, haven’t decided yet. but here’s their short list of nominees:
- Privacy International
- EPIC
- Human Rights Foundation
- Access Now
- Fight for the Future
- Tor Project
- Women Who Code
- Ranking Digital Rights
- Qubes OS
- GrapheneOS
Women Who Code might not be a good choice… https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5v53w/girls-who-code-team-up-with-tomahawk-missile-maker-raytheon
But I’m definitely excited to see Tor and Fight for the Future on the list!
Women Who Code and Girls Who Code are different nonprofit organizations.
They’re run by different people and have distinct goals (WWCode: supporting and empowering women who are in the tech industry; GWC is focused on getting more women into tech by providing opportunities to learn programming to girls).
How is that bad? The girls get a foot into Raytheon that they probably wouldn’t anyway, because the industry is sexist. And Raytheon gets to pad their diversity numbers and still have high quality employees.
I love at least half of those, haven’t heard of the rest. Hopefully they donate to a few of them.
Look at that. An email address that will be instantly added to every spammers list. And they know the owner has money too.
And they know the owner has money too.
Not after spending 50 mil on it
Anyone willing to spend $50m on an email address probably has more money than sense.
Until they spend 50 mil on an email address, then they have an equal amount of both.
From their q&a:
gitspamdum is a bot, I just created a fake account and bid for 999 trillions, no verification were requested in the whole process and 1 nanosecond later gitspamdum bid after me, I tried this twice, my only purpose was to expose the absurdity of the whole thing, if Proton really take this thing seriously please just cancel all auctions and place them in a serious website
It’s up to $100m. No shot those bids are legit.
EDIT: Looks like they cleaned up the fraudulent bids. Down to $15k which seems much more… possible.
