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Proton Mail Auctioning Rare 'X' Username for Charity, Current Bid as of Posting is $50,000,000USD [Update: $15,000USD] (www.ebid.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[-] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 61 points 11 months ago

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

this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023

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