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[beetcoin]

WOW, LEAKED INFO ON BIDDERS FOR US MASHALL BITCOIN AUCTION


Barry Silbert, CEO for SecondMarket

Luther Lowe, director of public policy for Yelp

Malcolm Oluwasanmi, chairperson of Little Phoenix Investment Group

Fabrice Evangelista, quantitative arbitrage at BNP Paribas

Michal Handerhanm, co-founder and COO of Bitcoin Shop

Dave Goel, managing general partner of Matrix Capital Management

Dinuka Samarasinghe, investment professional

Chris DeMuth Jr., Wrangeley Capital

Fred Ehrsam, co-founder, Coinbase

Jonathan Disner, corporate counsel at DRW Trading Group

William Brindise, head investment manager at DigitalBTC

Michael Moro, director at SecondMarket

Jennifer R. Jacoby, lawyer at WilmerHale

Sam Lee, co-founder, Bitcoins Reserve

Avarus Corporation

PLUS YELP AND BNP Paribas (fourth largest bank in world)

source please. looks like a few start-up type people, and not as many wallstreeters as i was hoping for. can't complain though.

This just sample, 37 total

of which 27 are sure to go home empty handed

is there anywhere in the rules where 1 person/group cannot win more than 1 bid?

[YogoH]

What would yelp do with bitcoin?


Also the guy from BNP, recently followed project coin on twitter.

[adamstgBit]

WOW, LEAKED INFO ON BIDDERS FOR US MASHALL BITCOIN AUCTION


Barry Silbert, CEO for SecondMarket

Luther Lowe, director of public policy for Yelp

Malcolm Oluwasanmi, chairperson of Little Phoenix Investment Group

Fabrice Evangelista, quantitative arbitrage at BNP Paribas

Michal Handerhanm, co-founder and COO of Bitcoin Shop

Dave Goel, managing general partner of Matrix Capital Management

Dinuka Samarasinghe, investment professional

Chris DeMuth Jr., Wrangeley Capital

Fred Ehrsam, co-founder, Coinbase

Jonathan Disner, corporate counsel at DRW Trading Group

William Brindise, head investment manager at DigitalBTC

Michael Moro, director at SecondMarket

Jennifer R. Jacoby, lawyer at WilmerHale

Sam Lee, co-founder, Bitcoins Reserve

Avarus Corporation

PLUS YELP AND BNP Paribas (fourth largest bank in world)

source please. looks like a few start-up type people, and not as many wallstreeters as i was hoping for. can't complain though.

This just sample, 37 total

of which 27 are sure to go home empty handed

is there anywhere in the rules where 1 person/group cannot win more than 1 bid?

 

i had not considered that

shit's about to get real, real soon!

[adamstgBit]

we must buy more!

[Parazyd]

Interesting... Banks buying Bitcoin. I wonder how are they gonna justify the purpose of purchase...

[JorgeStolfi]

Well, it seems that the list is not quite the list of bidders.  USMS clarification, quoted in the CoinDesk article:

One of the emails that we sent out this morning inadvertently showed a list of some of the individuals who have asked a question or questions about the pending bitcoin auction.

And, besides, the article says

the original intent of the email was to inform interested parties about an updated FAQ related to the bitcoin auction.

So the list of bidders may not include any of those people, and may include any number of other people. 

[600watt]

WOW, LEAKED INFO ON BIDDERS FOR US MASHALL BITCOIN AUCTION


Barry Silbert, CEO for SecondMarket

Luther Lowe, director of public policy for Yelp

Malcolm Oluwasanmi, chairperson of Little Phoenix Investment Group

Fabrice Evangelista, quantitative arbitrage at BNP Paribas

Michal Handerhanm, co-founder and COO of Bitcoin Shop

Dave Goel, managing general partner of Matrix Capital Management

Dinuka Samarasinghe, investment professional

Chris DeMuth Jr., Wrangeley Capital

Fred Ehrsam, co-founder, Coinbase

Jonathan Disner, corporate counsel at DRW Trading Group

William Brindise, head investment manager at DigitalBTC

Michael Moro, director at SecondMarket

Jennifer R. Jacoby, lawyer at WilmerHale

Sam Lee, co-founder, Bitcoins Reserve

Avarus Corporation

PLUS YELP AND BNP Paribas (fourth largest bank in world)

source please. looks like a few start-up type people, and not as many wallstreeters as i was hoping for. can't complain though.

This just sample, 37 total

of which 27 are sure to go home empty handed

is there anywhere in the rules where 1 person/group cannot win more than 1 bid?

 

i had not considered that

shit's about to get real, real soon!

shit, looks we are late with our "wall-observer-group buy"  

[Cassius]

The auction was bearish. Now it's suddenly bullish?!

[shields]

is there anywhere in the rules where 1 person/group cannot win more than 1 bid?

I believe it confirms the opposite - that highest bidder can take all blocks if they want all of them.

[YogoH]

Well, it seems that the list is not quite the list of bidders.  USMS clarification, quoted in the CoinDesk article:

One of the emails that we sent out this morning inadvertently showed a list of some of the individuals who have asked a question or questions about the pending bitcoin auction.

And, besides, the article says

the original intent of the email was to inform interested parties about an updated FAQ related to the bitcoin auction.

So the list of bidders may not include any of those people, and may include any number of other people. 

Thats called damage control

[Parazyd]

The auction was bearish. Now it's suddenly bullish?!

They've seen how much money the bidders have and now they plan to milk it all out.
Seriously, an actual bank.

[TERA]

The auction was bearish. Now it's suddenly bullish?!

They've seen how much money the bidders have and now they plan to milk it all out.
Seriously, an actual bank.

Everything in bitcoin is this way. Anything initially seen as bearish and causes a drop gets flipped around later with a bullish spin to seem bullish a cause rise.

[Cassius]

The auction was bearish. Now it's suddenly bullish?!

They've seen how much money the bidders have and now they plan to milk it all out.
Seriously, an actual bank.

Poor Jorge. This does not help his cause.

[wachtwoord]

The auction was bearish. Now it's suddenly bullish?!

They've seen how much money the bidders have and now they plan to milk it all out.
Seriously, an actual bank.

Everything in bitcoin is this way. Anything initially seen as bearish and causes a drop gets flipped around later with a bullish spin to seem bullish a cause rise.

Sometimes multiple times such as when the Bitcoin world discovered there's a rather large group of people called the Chinese.

[Cassius]

The auction was bearish. Now it's suddenly bullish?!

They've seen how much money the bidders have and now they plan to milk it all out.
Seriously, an actual bank.

Everything in bitcoin is this way. Anything initially seen as bearish and causes a drop gets flipped around later with a bullish spin to seem bullish a cause rise.

Sometimes multiple times such as when the Bitcoin world discovered there's a rather large group of people called the Chinese.

Wake them up. They might like this.

[JorgeStolfi]

Thats called damage control

The registration of eligible bidders started Monday Jun/16 and closes Jun/23.  To register, one has to deposit 200'000 US$ which can be lost if the bid is awarded but not paid in time.  Hard to believe that all those people have already registered; the advantage for early registration is small (tie-breaking).

The submission of bids proper starts Jun/26.

Also, the Coindesk list begins with an Academic.  Why was his name omitted from the post? 

[Dragonkiller]

WOW, LEAKED INFO ON BIDDERS FOR US MASHALL BITCOIN AUCTION


Barry Silbert, CEO for SecondMarket

Luther Lowe, director of public policy for Yelp

Malcolm Oluwasanmi, chairperson of Little Phoenix Investment Group

Fabrice Evangelista, quantitative arbitrage at BNP Paribas

Michal Handerhanm, co-founder and COO of Bitcoin Shop

Dave Goel, managing general partner of Matrix Capital Management

Dinuka Samarasinghe, investment professional

Chris DeMuth Jr., Wrangeley Capital

Fred Ehrsam, co-founder, Coinbase

Jonathan Disner, corporate counsel at DRW Trading Group

William Brindise, head investment manager at DigitalBTC

Michael Moro, director at SecondMarket

Jennifer R. Jacoby, lawyer at WilmerHale

Sam Lee, co-founder, Bitcoins Reserve

Avarus Corporation

PLUS YELP AND BNP Paribas (fourth largest bank in world)

source please. looks like a few start-up type people, and not as many wallstreeters as i was hoping for. can't complain though.

This just sample, 37 total

of which 27 are sure to go home empty handed

i'm starting to think people that said they coins might sell at a premium we're right!

I have a feeling one person is going to take the whole lot. The FAQs clarified the auction style.

[gentlemand]

It's expressions of interest rather than registered bidders. There's quite the chasm between getting some info and actually sticking some money on the line. A very interesting list all the same.

[elebit]

My biggest trades were in December when we did a day with over 100K volume on Stamp/finex  and 140K volume on btce and I was trading on both of them at the same time.

Yeah, but that was surreal. A bit of an outlier. (And I was a bit too scared to trade then when the market was so obviously f-ed up, quite stupid in retrospect.)

[TERA]

My biggest trades were in December when we did a day with over 100K volume on Stamp/finex  and 140K volume on btce and I was trading on both of them at the same time.

Yeah, but that was surreal. A bit of an outlier. (And I was a bit too scared to trade then when the market was so obviously f-ed up, quite stupid in retrospect.)

Ya. I was only trading with 500BTC during the two crashes in December, and on other days I was only trading with 200BTC.