Isabela Bagueros, the executive director of The Tor Project, told Decrypt that the nonprofit wanted to commemorate a piece of the decentralized Internet’s history.īagueros said the nonprofit was eager to sell its own NFT after it witnessed the success of the Freedom of the Press Association’s auction of Edward Snowden's “Stay Free” NFT piece PleasrDAO bought that NFT for $5.4 million last month.īy supporting Tor, you are also supporting an ecosystem of applications used by millions of people around the world including journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and human rights defenders who need privacy and security to do their important work. But Dusk, the private key, will soon become nothing more than a relic: Tor plans to retire the version of the browser that supports the key.
PleasrDAO will also take over the ownership of the private key. The NFT, created by Itzel Yard, is a piece of generative art that is based on Dusk. onion website was duskgytldkxiuqc6.onion, or “Dusk,” which is often used as an example of a. 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. 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. “It's humbling to be involved-to have some small piece of art that honors everything this technology has done for freedom.” “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.
Her generative art collaboration with just sold for 500 $ETH (~$2 million USD) to am honored to support a project like Tor." -Itzel
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