The Tor Project, the nonprofit that maintains its privacy-preserving web browser, on Friday sold an NFT artwork of the private cryptographic key used

PleasrDAO buys the NFT of the first.onion domain for $2 million in ETH.

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2021-05-16 09:52:52

The Tor Project, the nonprofit that maintains its privacy-preserving web browser, on Friday sold an NFT artwork of the private cryptographic key used to create Dusk, the first Tor onion service, for $2 million in ETH . The proceeds will support the nonprofit.

The buyer of the piece, sold on NFT marketplace Foundation, is PleasrDAO—a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that pools money through smart contracts to acquire NFT art that furthers the cause of decentralization.

“This piece marries so many of the things that are important to us: artwork, privacy, and the cypherpunk ethos,” Red Phone, an anonymous member of PleasrDAO, told Decrypt.

“It's humbling to be involved—to have some small piece of art that honors everything this technology has done for freedom.”

The Tor Project, set up in 2006 by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and five others, grants access to websites with “.onion” domains, commonly known as the dark web. Its Tor browser, now used by about 2.25 million people each day, pings web traffic through relays spread across the world to obscure user activity.

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