Crazy how time flies. 2017 feels like just yesterdays, but it was 7 years ago, and I think this was the time Bitcoin had not yet hit $3K!

I read this and laughed
Bitcoin has been getting free ads from mainstream media for over a decade, though they thought they were FUDing it. I also wonder what happened to the “bubble territory” Perhaps it has now shifted 
I think a bitcoiner is going to try to win the bid. Perhaps some early whale. It would be interesting to see how it goes.

Its an opportunity if we can give it the necessary risk required to make an investment and hold, many people of these category found to be early investors never know bitcoin could get to this far, they invested and hold hoping for a better days ahead, same can still repeated itself today, if we all can invest and in the possible near future to come, we found that bitcoin has valued more than what we expect.

Who would forget that event considering that he obviously pissed off aunt Yellen while she was talking about how printing money is the solution to the financial crisis or whatever she was already talking about. I even had that picture as my avatar for a while

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It doesn't seem to me that the original is identical to what is being sold at the auction. Even then, the original paper was apparently in bad condition (somewhat crumpled), and this current one looks brand new without any signs of use. If I had something like that, I would probably keep it for myself and put it on the wall - but obviously it doesn't go very well for a man if he decides to do something like this.

I mean it was interesting I could see it has a great story overall but maybe would be better if sold on something like an NFT, Curious to see how the bidding is going to start since this is just a piece of paper, probably as long as they market it well it might get a high value when the auction starts because if there are only a few people know about the auction so there are low chance that people are going to buy it, it is just a piece of paper so maybe there was no some kind of guaranteed value here unlike NFTs where you could easily resell your NFTs on the market, this one is a tangible item and could easily be fake, its 7 years its difficult to believe that that paper was still on good condition like on the photos, it could easily be fake that could result to no value at all since you could just create something similar to it. Let's see how it is going to end up, I could easily see people here in the forum getting interested for collectors, small bids are surely going to happened.


I mean maybe but thinking of it there weren't really a lot of tangible things that could be linked to the history of Bitcoin or cryptocurrency since it's digital technology most of them are just nontangible things like NFTs. Maybe something like that first Bitcoin every mine right that could totally be a huge thing or could sell at a higher market price if we could identify that thing but it just wasn't made that way.

It's because it could be part of Bitcoin's history. So not sure if you really witnessed this guy or you are not but here is the video for you, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7GdLQIChNA

And so this guy somewhat became (in)famous to us, to Bitcoin enthusiast and now going to auction that piece of paper.

@kryptqnick - it might be a good idea, but obviously this guy needs his BTC for that piece of memorabilia. 

In London, at the British Museum, there is an exhibition about money and they mention Bitcoin: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5408766.0

Also, in Venezuela there is a Bitcoin Mining Museum: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5405204

There is another Bitcoin Mining museum as well, here are more details: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5410748.0

To be honest.  Considering it is NOT the original sign, I would not bid more than MAYBE a few hundred Dollars if I really had nothing to do with that amount of money.

But it is not the original.  Even if it was, it would of had much less value considering it is not even part of the note book any more.  If the guy wants some real money.  Then put that note book up for auction, if it even exists any more.

Otherwise it is like purchasing the copy of a painting at an auction.  Why spend a lot of money on a copy.  I do not see the potential or collectible value to be honest with you.  At that point I could work an upscale of the original art, stick it into a cool frame and put it on a wall.  My opinion however.

I don't know how they did it, but it doesn't seem to be the original anymore. It looks exactly like the original but, as pointed out, the original was already detached from the pad and was a bit crumpled. The one auctioned is still in the pad. Even the entire pad surprisingly looks new.

Anyway, this was indeed a piece of history. It deserves to be kept properly and safely. It somehow brings back the time when Bitcoin still struggled for recognition and acceptance. Today, just around 7 years later, the tide has already changed significantly, with the world's largest financial institutions already offering Bitcoin products.

I would guess that the best thing to do in this case would be ignoring these type of auctions because it is really not a good idea to keep promoting these things. If you pay a lot for this, then everyone will try to do it, and everyone will try to make money from it.

These type of things are the reason why things get out of hand. If this doesn't get paid a lot, then we are going to end up seeing nobody else do it, it wouldn't be worth it, but if someone pays a ton of money for this then we are going to start seeing a lot of people do the same thing and repeat it constantly as well. I think it would make more sense and that is why I believe that the best thing to do right now would be not even promote the news anywhere else and ignore it completely.

If the real version was auctioned, I don't think it was just the paper on which was written 'buy Bitcoin ' that was sold, but perhaps a printed copy or picture or meme of the original picture.
Whichever is easier to understand, the target market should be fine with the idea and pay as much as it costs just to help pass the message of investing in Bitcoin now.

The halving is a few days away, I wonder how many persons will want to spend much money now, when the results of the halving hasn't played out to get to a new ATH.