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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I feel like he's the one bidding.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt he has more money for stuff like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year 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 [email protected]. Or it’s fake. It’s probably fake, but I choose to believe.