The winning bidder has been contacted.
It didn’t get anywhere near 40
BTC .....and it didn’t get anywhere near 20
BTC.
I told you those were wack-a-doodle prices!
Congratulations on what you got though... I guessed less than half of that amount.
For the record: Just because 1 person decided to let the newspaper go for less, doesn't mean the other prices are false.
It just means this is the price 1 person was willing to let it go at.
Even though its hardly a low price as 7.4 BTC works out to over $60,000 at the price of Bitcoin on the sale date. (EDIT: I assumed a BTC price of $8100 after a half-second glance at the CMC chart from the date of auction).
I own TheTimes03Jan2009.com - and if JDBound is who I think it is, they are the single, solitary individual out of all the newspaper holders who was even willing to consider selling. They were also the only individual who had an actual asking price below $500,000.
So if this is the same individual, then I would consider this a one-off event, and the new owner to be an extremely lucky person, because after this, you are not likely to see one to for anywhere near this price again.
-B-