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Crypto donations to The Tor Project — the privacy-focused nonprofit website soared by 841 percentage points in 2021 on a year-over-year basis, according to a blog post by the company.

The Tor Project is a non-profit that focuses on the development of privacy network and private web browser Tor. The platform works on providing people with more privacy. In January, the team behind the project published the fundraising results, which happened during 2021.

The project raised $940,000. Fifty-eight percent of donations came from cryptocurrencies. The amount is far larger than the one that was raised in 2020 when donors generously sent $58,000 worth of cryptos.

"It's clear that cryptocurrency folks are extremely philanthropic, and that they care deeply about privacy online," The Tor Project fundraising director Al Smith told CoinDesk.

Sixty-eight percent or $371,000 were sent in Bitcoin. Twenty-eight percent ($154,000) were sent in Ether, and 2% ($9,000) were sent in DAI. Finally, the project received $71 in Monero crypto, equivalent to one percent of the total donations.

The crypto community is more focused on privacy compared to other internet users. The pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto explained in the crypto’s whitepaper how the digital token can keep users’ financial transactions more private.

Meanwhile, the Tor network plays a major role in developing cryptos. Bitcoin core nodes, provide users with the ability to send traffic over an encrypted privacy network to hide the node’s IP addresses. According to the bitcoin network tracking site Bitnodes, over  51% of nodes run over the Tor network.

The Tor Project first started accepting bitcoin donations in 2013, before expanding to accept nine other cryptocurrencies in 2019.