Bitcoin ‘sign’ auctioned for $1 million, Nadler removes ‘the people’ from Second Amendment

A “Buy Bitcoin” sign, scribbled on a yellow legal pad and held up for C-SPAN behind Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at a 2017 hearing, sold at auction for nearly $1 million.

The hammer dropped at about $980,986, making former Cato Institute intern Christian Langalis pretty wealthy.

He said on the Scarce City auction site, “It’s good to finally liberate this number from my sock drawer and offer it back to the Bitcoin public. The message was subversive then, but now merely obvious: Bitcoin is flowing. Control is dead.”

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