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April 06, 2013, 12:02:02 AM
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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.

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April 06, 2013, 12:28:32 AM
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Neat...

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April 06, 2013, 02:23:58 AM
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Am I missing something? What's so special about 210000?

None the less good luck selling. Smiley
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April 06, 2013, 02:32:54 AM
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Am I missing something? What's so special about 210000?

None the less good luck selling. Smiley

http://mineforeman.com/2012/11/30/dissecting-bitcoin-block-210000/
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April 06, 2013, 02:52:00 AM
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That's cool. Forgive my naivety, but how do we know it's legitimate?

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April 06, 2013, 03:19:24 AM
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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.

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April 06, 2013, 03:21:03 AM
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I found the block using slush's pool

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128221.0
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April 06, 2013, 07:38:41 AM
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I'll bid 3 BTC

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April 06, 2013, 04:24:07 PM
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I received a private bid of 4 btc
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April 06, 2013, 06:34:19 PM
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$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.
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April 06, 2013, 07:24:33 PM
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$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.
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April 06, 2013, 07:31:39 PM
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$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  Wink
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April 06, 2013, 11:15:10 PM
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$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.

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!

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April 06, 2013, 11:40:34 PM
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If I buy this, can you get me Slush's autograph? :-)
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April 07, 2013, 01:27:07 AM
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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

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April 07, 2013, 02:02:57 AM
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The slush that posts here is not the same slush that runs the pool?
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April 07, 2013, 02:38:32 AM
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same bot, yes
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April 07, 2013, 02:40:17 AM
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$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.

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April 07, 2013, 11:29:28 PM
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my 6990 found 220981. so what? want to buy it for 50k$?
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April 07, 2013, 11:32:23 PM
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bump

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

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