‘Buy Bitcoin’ Sign Shown Behind Yellen Sells for $1 Million at Auction
- Message was flashed behind Janet Yellen during a 2017 hearing
- Online auction came soon after Bitcoin reached a record high
A yellow legal pad with “Buy Bitcoin” scribbled on it - the type that will cost you $8.99 for a three-pack on Amazon — just sold for $1.027 million during an auction.
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.