The “Buy Bitcoin” sign that was shown behind Janet Yellen at a televised 2017 Congressional hearing has sold for over $1 million.
The original scrawled sign was auctioned off by “Bitcoin Sign Guy” Christian Langalis for 16 BTC after apparently sitting in his sock drawer for years.
A yellow notepad with “Buy Bitcoin” written on it, which was flashed behind then-United States Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen during a 2017 Congressional hearing, has sold at auction for 16 Bitcoin (on the Bitcoin auction platform Scarce City. The auction ran for a week, ending on April 24, just after 11:00 pm UTC.to the camera after nabbing a seat behind Yellen at a televised House Financial Services Committee hearing in July 2017.
In a statement under the listing, Langalis said it was “good to finally liberate this number from my sock drawer and offer it back to the Bitcoin public.”The listing notes the page with the handwritten sign “was removed from the notepad shortly after the hearing” but was since “reattached with clear archival wire.”
The yellow legal pad also contains “an unseen rough draft” of the now-iconic scrawl along with notes on the hearing monetary policy and Bitcoin.In 2019, Langalis created and sold 21 replicas of the sign which sold for an average price of 0.8 BTC, worth about $51,300 today.
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