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On 11-28-12, I was lucky enough to find block 210000 with my 5870.  I am about to upgrade my mining rig, and have outgrown this card.  

The card is in perfect working order, and is mining away as we speak.  I am not selling this for the price of a typical 5870.

This could be a big piece for any collector of bitcoin memorabilia. Not many physical items exist of historical value in the bitcoin world, this could be one of the biggest.  I want this to go to a collector, someone that will give it a good home.

I am selling this as an auction.  I will accept private bids via pm's, or feel free to post questions or bids here.  I am happy to use escrow. Accepting bitcoins or interesting trades only.

Neat...

Am I missing something? What's so special about 210000?

None the less good luck selling. :)

http://mineforeman.com/2012/11/30/dissecting-bitcoin-block-210000/

That's cool. Forgive my naivety, but how do we know it's legitimate?

I am just curious what pool you were mining at the time. aka which pool claimed the block.  There was talk a long while back about auctioning off that block but I never heard anything more.

I found the block using slush's pool

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128221.0

I'll bid 3 BTC

I received a private bid of 4 btc

$574 for a 5870?  I have 77 of them for sale if anyone wants them for 4btc each.  I have found dozens of blocks with them over the last 17 months.

This is not a normal 5870, this is one of the few bitcoin artifacts you can hold in your hand. Arguably, when news of the halving hit the media, is when btc started to rise to its current fame and price.  This card belongs in the bitcoin museum, that hopefully will exist one day.

Id like to add here that if Satoshi contacts me requesting the card, I will donate it to him for free.

+1 Let's get a kickstarter going for a Bitcoin museum  ;)

Agreed.  Hard to know the value of something like this as we are in new territory.  If Bitcoin fizzles it is not gonna be worth much.  If Bitcoin continues to grow then it will be a piece of history.

4 BTC is a pretty good price so far!

If I buy this, can you get me Slush's autograph? :-)

As far as I know, slush does not exist in human form.  All evidence points to him as being a AI bot, so it would be rather difficult to get his autohraph

The slush that posts here is not the same slush that runs the pool?

same bot, yes

Cosmic.

my 6990 found 220981. so what? want to buy it for 50k$?

Congrats laughingbear, is there any chance we could see a pic of the historic artefact?

Huh?  Slush is Marek Palatinus.

http://marek.palatinus.cz/

right

I disagree.  He is like the Easter bunny and Santa. Marek Palatinus is the person that coded the bot known as Slush

Yes. I will post a pic.  Give me a few minutes.

Sold yet? I would like to preserve this artifact.   Contact me.

Satoshi here, give me the card.

What I what to know is if there is a database of information to scoure to see how many scammers attempted to create an account with the name "Satoshi" or somethin of the sort so they could come claim their, I mean - his, prize!

I have received 3 different messages from people claiming to me satoshi.

Last chance for this, I think...  A private serious offer has been made.

So it's your fault that my mining rewards halved from December 2012 onwards?!

A pox on you!!

:P lol jk :D

It would still be nice to see a pic of it. Plus, it would be good if you could highlight any unique distinguishing features, such as serial numbers, for future provenance.

Incoming... I have to stop mining for all that info, but ill do it asap.

Sorry this took so long, I didnt want to stop mining.

To whoever purchases this, I will provide a certificate of authenticity, and I will have it notarized. I will provide any other proof you require, that this is indeed the card that mined block 210000.

http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k489/bearsemail/card1_zps7f714ca7.jpg
http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k489/bearsemail/card3_zpsef1596b0.jpg
http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k489/bearsemail/card2_zpsda9b6dcf.jpg

I was thinking the same thing  ;D

Ill take credit for that, if I also get credit for the current price

The block halving + time =/= the current price.  ::)

4.5 is the current high bid.  I may put this up on bitmit.

price is cheap now with low exchange rates

The fact that theymos gave him the title of "Deflationary champion" is a clue!

Your certificate of authenticity ought to be signed with your Bitcoin address.

no problem

I listed this on bitmit

https://www.bitmit.net/en/item/28145-a-piece-of-bitcoin-history-the-card-that-found-block-210000

Honestly I think the foundation should buy this off of you for a future Bitcoin memorabilia museum at the headquarters.

Considering they make that much in two days from the 4 module Avalon Yifu dropped off, I'd agree.

I will pay 0.9 bitcoins shipped to 54501 for this video card.

I do not care that it mined block 210,000.

I will pay 0.1 bitcoins shipped to 54501 for this canvas with squiggles on it.

I do not care that it is the Mona Lisa.

no

I have replaced this card with a new 7970, so this precious bitcoin artifact is sitting on my shelf collecting dust.

just reduced price on bitmit, this is as low as I will sell.

I fail to see what the big deal is about this.  Maybe I don't have enough bitcoins to blow to care.

M

forgot about this for a bit.  I lowered the price on bitmit to $850

I would also be open to trades, for a handful of the USB Block Erupters

https://www.bitmit.net/en/item/28145-a-piece-of-bitcoin-history-the-card-that-found-block-210000

I just wanted to say I love your quote for the history books!  :D


From the link you posted:

"In case this post somehow goes down in history, I just want to say….   [censored] The Federal Reserve System."

If you were willing to dontate to Mr. Nakamoto, then why not just give the gpu to one of the Devs or the foundation ??

I have the CPU! that found block 199542.

ahhh.. anyone else remember the good ole days when you could find blocks with a cpu?  ;p  Hell how about the days when a single gpu could find more than a block in its useful life.. I have a gpu which found a few blocks itself.

*reminisces*, and I wasn't even here as early as some of you..

I haven't been asked, and haven't thought about it.

Bump! The sooner this is sold, the sooner people wake up and build a museum!  :o

this is awesome  :)

Can't wait to see how much this goes for

I suppose because in consideration for his card he'd be in on the identity of Mr. Nakamoto and would be privy to some evidence he's still around, which, is likely worth quite a bit than a video card both in fair market value as well as pricelessness!

Im glad you are the one that got it.  Itll be in the mail tomorrow, or Monday.  Ill do my best to make a snazzy COA.  Any request on the size of the COA, so itll fit in the frame?

How could you possibly prove that this particular card found the block?

Congrats Chaang Noi and laughingbear. :)

Now lets see it find the next Zetacoin halving block. ahaha..

HT xD

Oh man, I wish I could have gotten this for The Bitcoin Museum.  Would make a fine piece for all to view

Oh lawd, I don't think my museum is worthy of your artefact!

Lawl  ;)

Can not be proven but since it was being bought from the person KNOWN to be the account holder that found the block that is close enough.  This type of scenario plays out with movie memorabilia as well and you do not have a SN to prove anything just the public chain of custody.    The SN should be publicly posted by the seller so it will keep its value. 

I just sent out your package Goat.  By the time you got back to me about the coa, I had already went out and bought the fancy coa paper, printed it off, and sealed it up for package.  It was a horizontal 8 x 10.  If you want it any different size, or dont like the design, i would be more than happy to sign anything that you come up with and return it you.  Id even pay for shipping.  I added the serial numbers on the coa.  Pics of the serial numbers are on page 2 of this thread, but I ill also add them here.

SN# 181026 010428

I know there are a lot of scams out there in this community, but this is not one. I swear upon all that is holy,  I mined the block, and I used this card.  I have signed and dated a document confirming that. Laughing Bear is my real name.  If I were to ever try and sell another card claiming that it was the block finder, Goat would have a great fraud case against me. 

Congrats on this purchase goat, I am very glad that it is going to someone that will take care of it.

Awesome find goat.  Congrats.


If the COA isn't to your liking them just make another one something that would be museum quality, I am sure LB wouldn't mind signing it if you destroy the original (so only one COA remains).  The block of an era.  Soon (3 years) we will be looking at 12.5 BTC blocks and it will likely require an entire datacenter rack with more than 1 PH/s to have any reasonable chance of finding a block.  It will be cool to see the single graphics card which solved the last 50 BTC block.

maybe I should auction my original Times from 2009 - for the museum?

https://i.imgur.com/tWCACH5.jpg

Will

Nice.  I would bid on that.  Would need some better pics to judge its condition.  Assumming it is frame worthy it would be a pretty cool piece of memorabilia.

+1 Could you make a proper scan of it?

Let's the next halving prove you wrong ;)

More physical history :o

Newspapers of classic events usually aren't worth much unless they are mint condition so indeed the quality is very important. This quote will be world famous though in a10-20 years I think ... (everyone will learn it in school)

How much are you looking to get?

I am glad it arrived safe.  Anytime you want that resigned, just let me know.

better resist trying to do the crossword then!  I'm not looking to sell actually, but if sometime in the future a real bitcoin museum was stood up I would be happy to lend.

Wil

Okay, I'll make due with the picture then. Thanks for that anyway :)

I would love to see the look on the insurance agents face when you insure it against loss if it increases in value (bitcoin stays around and grows in popularity for a decade.)

Also loved the reasons in the interview you gave for mining.  Presently I just mine LIC but am looking at buying blades or a bfl single for the same reason.  Yeah, it probably is not worth it- but if the banks (central and otherwise hate it this much there has to be something to it.)