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The Bitcoin Review | 6 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +1 
 ‘Buy Bitcoin’ sign that photobombed Janet Yellen sells for $1M.
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Anjir | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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Smart Commentir | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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 
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$64,272
 — over $1 million.
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nivana | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The hastily produced sign was flashed by an intern back in 2017 during televised Congressional testimony of then-Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. The placard quickly became a rallying cry for a small but fast-growing community of crypto developers and investors, and now a sign of the cryptocurrency's renaissance