Im sending this guy some Bitcoin! STEEMIT fam, donate to this patriot hahaha
Blockchain data reveals that it pays to be the Bitcoin Sign Guy.
The bitcoin community was abuzz yesterday when, during an appearance before a Congressional committee by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, an attendee held aloft a "buy bitcoin" sign. The image of the sign quickly went viral, though the attendee and his friend were ultimately asked to leave by a staffer.
Soon after his appearance, it emerged that the individual is a friend of a cryptocurrency trader who tweets under the handle CryptoEthan. He posted a picture of the person – soon known as the "Bitcoin Sign Guy" – who, in addition to holding up the now-infamous sign, shared a bitcoin address as well.
As of press time, that address has garnered 6.32570673 BTC, an amount worth just under $15,000 at current prices. While most of the transactions involved, numbering 556 according to Blockchain.info, were small in scale, one notable contribution was for 1 BTC.
The photo that included the address was ultimately deleted at the Bitcoin Sign Guy's request, though he later visited the nonprofit advocacy group Coin Center, which is headquartered in Washington, DC.
The viral activity spurred several scam attempts, with some accounts posting Photoshopped versions of the original picture with new addresses.
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I think this was an Awesome thing that happened with this guy yesterday I would have done the same thing if I was at the Testimony.
That's an interesting tidbit going on about the bitcoin sign guy. Also heard EOS closed down slack channels because of spams, too. Well, if you don't want cheetah to flag u or keep doing that to your comments, then you do this:
cause it is kinda considered outside/real world news?
oh really? Cool, I used to put the link at the bottom but it did nothing, obviously I'm just sharing and not tryst o steal credit, so just add "newslink" as a tag word?
That's what I heard from guy with rep 71 on his post today
The bitcoin guy is going down in the history books as a legend.