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‘Buy Bitcoin’ sign that photobombed Janet Yellen sells for $1M
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 BTC$63,976 — over $1 million.
The buyer, identified as “Justin” — also known as “Squirrekkywrath” — was the winning bidder on the Bitcoin auction platform Scarce City. The auction ran for a week, ending on April 24, just after 11:00 pm UTC.
The sign was offered up by Christian Langalis, who wrote it out and flashed it to the camera after nabbing a seat behind Yellen at a televised House Financial Services Committee hearing in July 2017.
Langalis was escorted out after photobombing Yellen, as signs are not allowed to be displayed during hearings.
CNBC reported at the time that after the sign was flashed, Bitcoin traded 3.7% higher, reaching over $2,418.
After Scarce City takes its 15% fee, Langalis is set to pocket around $875,000, or 13.6 BTC.
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.”
