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.
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!
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.
Removed by mod
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
Look at that. An email address that will be instantly added to every spammers list. And they know the owner has money too.
