A piece of notebook paper with the sign “Buy Bitcoin” – famous for appearing on broadcast behind then-United States Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen in 2017 – was sold for 16 BTC, or about $1.027 million.
The sign was handed over to the highest bidder, the pseudonymous “Squirrekeywrath”, after a week-long auction on Wednesday at a pub in New York. The original “Bitcoin Sign Guy,” Christian Langlais – who posted the auction himself on the auction platform rare city , Too attended Celebration.
The website description reads, “This iconic drawing hastily drawn on a yellow legal pad marks Bitcoin’s infiltration into the global monetary landscape – signaling one of the few widely recognized physical Bitcoins given Bitcoin’s virtual nature.” One of the artifacts.” The notepad auctioned also contains Langlais’s notes and mock-up drawings of the sign from that day.
Langlais, Joe Allegedly The 22-year-old intern at the Cato Institute was seen holding a “Buy Bitcoin” sign behind Yellen at a televised House Financial Services Committee hearing in July 2017. The then-Fed Chairman was speaking in Congress on the Fed’s semiannual monetary policy report.
While Langlais was removed from the hearing room after chanting the slogan, the price of Bitcoin was up 3.7% at the time of the broadcast. cnbc,
Bitcoin’s value has surged from around $2,700 in July 2017 to a peak of more than $73,000 last month, driven by a major decision by US regulators to allow the launch of a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
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