We almost certainly won't be auctioning more of these on BitCoinTalk. The market here is pretty thin (very few bidders). I doubt any of the folks that have been awarded these would let them go for this, but we did want to at least provide the opportunity for our supporters here to get a chance at one of these...
Thanks for the opportunity I guess. What exactly were you expecting?
Thank you for asking. My expectation was only to try out this forum as an auction mechanism. I am happy with what comes of that.
Though most of these First Strike pieces have gone out to internal team members, artists, programmers, machinists, designers and etc, there are some others here on bitcointalk that have also contributed and are receiving these First Strike pieces. So although
we won't be auctioning more of these. Those who receive them might. Also it is pleasing and encouraging to learn of the presence of sufficient interest in collectible editions, so this won't be the last of those. The primary purpose of this, will remain as a circulation piece, but this encouraging enough to design and provide other offerings in the future.
For example, we would like to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Satoshi White Paper this October, and had contemplated working on developing something special for those that want to join in that.
Based on the interest, we will continue with that plan, and others.
