Sorry if the over-enthusiastic tone of my post lead to misunderstandings.
I'm a really looking for feedbacks here, not trying to create hype. My valuation is just subjective and that is why I am not starting off with an auction but asking to the community.

That said, you raised a fair point. The Genesis message is from Satoshi, the NYTimes one is from F2Pools. Despite it being one of the most reputable mining pool out there, it certainly aint' Satoshi.

I'm only comparing the two because I find fascinating the parallels between the two events: gen block and 2008 financial crisis vs 3rd halving and current economic outlook, the ever-inflationary policy lead by the FED vs the hard-set deflationary schedule of BTC.

You will agree that these are truly exceptional times and after the bear market everyone was excited for the halving event. It was an amazing discovery to find out such a message in the block (I think they were trying to include it in the actual 630.000 halving block).

Side note: I learned all of this from much more reputable people than me involved in Bitcoin, it's not a made-up story

Hello everybody
I'm seeking help for valuing what I think might be an interesting piece of collectible related to Bitcoin's history in the upcoming future.

Everyone knows the story behind the "Chancellor on Brink.." genesis block message and the 03/Jan/2009 issue of The Times is now a highly sought-after piece
(ref. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5134423.0).

What many might have missed is, on the 11th May 2020, right before the 3rd Halving at block 629.999, another highly symbolic message was included in the blockchain, namely:




(ref1: https://www.coindesk.com/history-has-repeated-f2pool-explains-message-last-block-before-bitcoin-halving , ref2 : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247708.0)


The headline is from an online article of the New York Times published on the 09/Apr/2020. The day after, the article was printed in the 10/Apr/2020 physical issue and that's what I am presenting to you today. Fascinating by this whole story, I have somehow managed to get four copies from the NYTimes back copies department.


https://ibb.co/grSPLBd
https://ibb.co/DV0JDxX
https://ibb.co/f8JvHvv
https://ibb.co/ZhgQctD

What do you think these might be valued at?
To be 100% transparent on my trains of thoughts, I have used as reference the 03/Jan/2009 Times (sold for 7.5BTC) because it was the most analogous piece I could think of, but I don't think the value is nearly as close honestly, given:

• It's not a front page, the article is on page B4 of the Business insert.
• The title is slightly different from the online version ("FED Puts 2.3 Trillion Behind Programs to Bolster the Economy")
• It is still a relatively recent piece  (although I doubt anyone could now easily obtain one of these copies from the NYT since the maximum request period is over).

On the other side:
The hidden message in block 629.999 is one of the most iconic commemoration of the 3rd Halvening, a highly meaningful event for an incredible number of reasons, not least, a big Bitcoin FU to FED's monetary policy. The halving message was covered by Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/colinharper/2020/05/11/bitcoins-halving-block-includes-a-message-to-remind-us-why-it-was-created/#50c8e805656a) and celebrated by the most influential Bitcoin personalities (https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1259929075902222345?s=20)

The 10/Apr/20 NYTimes issue is the physical testimony of it and as soon as Bitcoin will become the global reserve currency(), I am strongly convinced all the physical commemorations of halvings will gain incredible historic and collectible appeal.


If I were to start an auction today (not said I will), I would value one of these at 1/100th of the "original Times" market value (around 0.075BTC)
Thoughts? Every feedback is highly appreciated, I am still a newbie after all.

YAM was nuts, but people invested recklessly in an unaudited protocol despite advised on the exact opposite.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes I guess

I definitely agree with Jawhead999 here. Trading != Investing.

The skillset is totally different IMHO. For trading you need a decent understanding of financial market, TA or coding skills (mandatory if you are a quant/arb or just want to fetch data from an API but I think it helps in general).
Conversely, an investor who focuses 5-10y from now must possess product knowledge, understand the long term competitive advantages (stellar team, winner-takes-all markets etc.) and formulate educated guesses on how a specific industry may evolve in the future.

Very different games.
 

and within the obvious Defi trend, 4 out of 10 of the most searched projects are oracle solutions(Link, Dia, Band and DOS). As an absolutely key piece of the stack when it comes to smart contracts, oracles are gaining traction!

A quick fix to this is to use an aggregator like 1inch, Paraswap or Matcha (0x). These aren't DEXes themselves but rather look for the best liquidity route from other protocols' pools. In this way traders are able to minimize their slippage as they are always trading from the most liquid pools, at the best rates.