{"id":42413,"date":"2021-05-13T13:51:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T10:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42413"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:06:23","slug":"tor-project-to-auction-first-onion-domain-as-nft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/tor-project-to-auction-first-onion-domain-as-nft\/","title":{"rendered":"Tor Project to Auction First .onion Domain as NFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tor Project, a nonprofit behind the Tor network, will put up for NFT auction the access key to the first onion service, Dusk.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minted now, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/withFND?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@withFND<\/a>. We collaborated with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ix_shells?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ix_shells<\/a> to create a one-of-a-kind NFT: a generative art piece derived using the first onion service&#8217;s private key. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9HhqPCPCHm\">https:\/\/t.co\/9HhqPCPCHm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tor Project (@torproject) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/torproject\/status\/1392523384072806405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The lot includes the private cryptographic key RSA-1024 and a piece of art created using it, titled Dreaming at Dusk.<\/p>\n<p>The auction <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.app\/torproject\/dreaming-at-dusk-35855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/foundation.app\/torproject\/dreaming-at-dusk-35855\">will take place<\/a> on Foundation. The Tor Project team will announce the start of bidding separately.<\/p>\n<p>The cryptographic key will be delivered to the auction winner on November 1, 2021, by any convenient method: as an encrypted message, via blockchain, on a USB drive, or on a DVD.<\/p>\n<p>By that date, Tor will have completed migrating onion services from version 2 to version 3. This means the winner cannot use the Dusk private key to host services and it will be purely a historical artifact.<\/p>\n<p>In April, former National Security Agency and CIA contractor Edward Snowden sold his first NFT &#8220;Stay Free&#8221; for 2224 ETH (about $5.4 million at the time of the sale). The token depicts an encrypted portrait of Snowden in excerpts from documents from a lawsuit alleging NSA violations of U.S. law.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tor Project, the nonprofit behind the Tor network, will put up the access key to the first onion service, Dusk, for an NFT auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213,49],"class_list":["post-42413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-tor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42415,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42413\/revisions\/42415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}