Janet Yellen’s ‘Buy Bitcoin’ note hits $140k in online auction

Despite Langalis being escorted out of the hearing for his act, his artifact is now attracting bids nearing $140,000 (2.2 BTC as of press time) in an online auction described as an “Ink Drawing on Legal Pad” on Scarce City, a marketplace that uses BTC to sell crypto-related goods for the crypto. At the time of writing, the largest bid (2.2 BTC) has been placed by an X user under alias @BITPAINTCLUB.

“Bitcoin was massively rupturing into the halls of institutional finance in 2017. Any Bitcoiner worth their sats would have told you so. 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.”

Christian Langalis

Set to conclude on Apr. 24, the winner of the auction will be announced at a Bitcoin-themed eatery in New York, where Langalis is employed. According to the lot’s description, the sign is “one of few widely-recognized physical Bitcoin artifacts, given Bitcoin’s virtual nature.”