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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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 14 points 10 months ago

I feel like he's the one bidding.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Aradia@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I doubt he has more money for stuff like this.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Aradia@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months 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 10 months 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.