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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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[–] 0oWow@lemmy.world 121 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 2 years ago

Yikes! I hadn’t thought about that!

[–] moody@lemmings.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And they know the owner has money too.

Not after spending 50 mil on it

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anyone willing to spend $50m on an email address probably has more money than sense.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Until they spend 50 mil on an email address, then they have an equal amount of both.

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If that person has a networth of...say, roughly 230 billions...that 50mil isn't even a noticeable change.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 82 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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

source

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Qubes! Holy hell, that's a blast from my past. I didn't contribute or anything, to be clear, but I did use it and enjoy it while I did. It's a really interesting way to handle security.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Its an active project. Likely lots of improvements if you haven't used it for a while.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Past? Still my daily driver and I couldn't imagine anything else.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hell yeah, I'm glad it's worked for you! I capitulated because I wanted to do VR gaming and I couldn't figure out a way to make that work.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 2 points 2 years ago

Ah, yes. Gaming is something Qubes is not good for lol

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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!

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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).

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Oh okay, my mistake. Thanks for pointing that out

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Girlbossing a thirld world school with a tomahawk

I love at least half of those, haven't heard of the rest. Hopefully they donate to a few of them.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You can just immediately resell it to Elon for $44B.

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago

I feel like he's the one bidding.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I think at this point it’s safe to say he’d pay double.

[–] Aradia@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I doubt he has more money for stuff like this.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe we can have a fundraiser for ol Musky to buy x.

[–] Aradia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I would prefer to get it for x.org before anything about Musk, he sucks, and I don't want to know anything more about him.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 years ago

Could be the guy that has been the early adopter of everything, but was not fast enough for ProtonMail. CompuServe, AOL, Xanga—first to ‘x’. Now that he has made his $100,000,350, he can finally afford to get x@pm.me. Or it’s fake. It’s probably fake, but I choose to believe.

[–] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years 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

[–] victron@programming.dev 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Jesus, I received the mail just this morning, and I thought "who would bid for that? Lol". I'm actually impressed.

[–] Crow@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Personal email domains > generic email domains.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I know right. I can go into Proton now and create an x@mydomain.com alias if I want...for free

[–] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Elon is bidding on it against his own alt accounts. There's no way anyone else gets it.

[–] jojo@toast.ooo 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Even if I had enough money to buy this email, I wouldn't. Too many people would try to hack, steal, or buy the account from me. It would be a cool email tho.

Nah, just think of the spam you'd need to wade through.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

With that money ($100 million) you could get a custom TLD, so you could own x@x.x

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think .x is tld. But EM owns x.com, so he could (and may well already have) x@x.com. But I think paying for a name is silly.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago

With just $185k the ICANN accepts registrations of custom TLDs

Weird that Elon didn't apply for that since he had 44 billion to burn

[–] jojo@toast.ooo 1 points 2 years ago

lol "just email me, my address is xxx"

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] eldoom@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago
[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

Lmmfao! That's brilliant.

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

It was about that time...