[Auction | NO MINIMUM BID] The Times 03 Jan 2009 | 10% to FreeRoss.org

[Wryghteous]

3BTC

[TMAN]

3.25BTC

[nubbins]

Seeing that start price makes me really regret not picking up 2 of these papers when I had the chance. IIRC back then he was asking 1BTC each and I was like lolplz...

Yeah there were a bunch of them floating around.  If you want to get real crazy I remember an auction where someone won one for like .15btc ish when btc was around $200 lulz.

Edit: .26btc nubbins https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=727068.0

Edit #2: bitcoin was around $600 making that paper sold for around $150

AFAIK this is still the only verified “newspaper-only” sale. When I resold it, it was with a bundle of other rare goods, deliberately obscuring the price. The paper and a s2 0.5 silver would have collectively been valued at around 25btc to the buyer at the time. The other coins in the bundle were common and easily priced.

The guy from the times 2009 website still reaches out about once a year just to see if I still have any other copies stashed away. I don’t!

Winner: please take a high-resolution scan of the front page. I wish I had!

[JDBound]

Thanks to all who placed bids and PM'd with questions/concerns this week. If you have suggestions on how to enhance auction integrity in the collectibles subforum I recommend checking out the thread started by micgoossens: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5140603.0

Also remember to hash your final sale price predictions by May 15 @ 20:00 PST on Sat0shisGhost's thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5140169.0

The auction runs for another eight days, get your bids in early and good luck!  

[Otoh]

4BTC

[rusbitcoinuser]

I want to see a Otoh vs greenplastic showdown.

[TMAN]

4.25BTC

Edit.. please MR OTOH.. let some minnows have some fun for once

[Otoh]

5BTC

[TMAN]

6.25BTC

[Otoh]

6.5BTC

[TMAN]

6.5BTC

I hereby bow to a greater opponent, best of luck big O

[rbdrbd]

6.75

[Otoh]

7BTC

[rbdrbd]

7.5

[Otoh]

I believe that this is a correct countdown timer for the Auction Close: Sunday, May 5 @ 2300 EDT Monday, May 20 @ 2300 EDT, but no guarantees, it's unofficial so do you own DD, though I shall be following it unless someone spots a flaw in it.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20190520T23&p0=179&msg=Satoshi+Times+auction&font=cursive

[JDBound]

I believe that this is a correct countdown timer for the Auction Close: Sunday, May 5 @ 2300 EDT Monday, May 20 @ 2300 EDT, but no guarantees, it's unofficial so do you own DD, though I shall be following it unless someone spots a flaw in it.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20190520T23&p0=179&msg=Satoshi+Times+auction&font=cursive

I can confirm that this is indeed the correct Auction Close time.

I have also edited the first post clarifying the no sniping rule as follows:

No Sniping: Each bid in the final 60 minutes adds 60 minutes to the Auction Close time until no bid has been made for 60 minutes.

[JDBound]

Just over ~24 hours until auction close.

Remember 10% of the proceeds of this auction will be donated to FreeRoss.org.

You can also donate at https://freeross.org/donate

Good luck everyone

[JDBound]

One hour until auction close.

The No Sniping rule is now in effect.

[JDBound]

The winning bidder has been contacted.

[anonymousminer]

The winning bidder has been contacted.

It didn’t get anywhere near 40BTC .....and it didn’t get anywhere near 20BTC.

I told you those were wack-a-doodle prices!

Congratulations on what you got though... I guessed less than half of that amount.