Someone held up a "Buy Bitcoin" sign during Janet Yellen's testimony to Congress
Bitcoin just got some major free press.
As if it really needed any more of it...
During Janet Yellen's testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, an unidentified man held up a sign saying "Buy Bitcoin".
Yellen was speaking during the first round of the Fed's semi-annual monetary policy report to Congress and also addressing the state of the economy.
The event and the sign were seen live on television.
The unidentified man was subsequently removed from the hearing room.
Did it effect the price of Bitcoin?
It looks like it did at least slightly, as the price traded near the highs of the day at 1:03 pm EST shortly after the sign was visible.
Yellen did not comment on Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies during this hearing, but perhaps after hearing about the sign behind her, she will comment on it at the next one. ;)
Stay informed my friends!
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Victory! Another battle won by the good guys!
This is BRILLIANT.
Congratulations to that brave soul. It takes alot of guts to pull this off. It would of been so easy for him to talk himself out of it once he thought it up.
I can only imagine the dialogue that was going on in his head on the days that led up to this.
Hopefully he will now have a Crypto career.
Resteeming
Dude was a boss, he really didn't care for his future slavery internship job haha
Yeah man. "Today was a good day, I didn't have to use my AK."
Dre.
The shift is beginning. We can all sense it. There is something in the air. Can't you smell it?
It's a familiar smell but one I have not smelled in quite some time. It's the smell of victory. The ashes of our enemies lie at our feet.
Today was an easy victory. With just the use of a legal pad we made them stagger.
The struggle continues.
Current Mood :)
Especially since he got quite a few donations to his bitcoin address after posting it later...
Thats so funny, I wrote the same article but 40 minutes after you @jrcornel :)) When I started writing I looked for such an article and did not find any. But after I published it, saw it came up on trending in #cryptocurrency. Very cool story with this Walter C Allen
Cool! I am sure it is going viral all over social media as of late yesterday...
I think he started something much bigger than people realize! People will now start putting Bitcoin signs in crazy places. Make it go viral with their donation address, and suddenly they have Bitcoins!
HAHAHA this is great!!! We need more people like this spreading the word of Bitcoin....That is all I do, spread the word of crypto currency. This guy had the opportunity and took it lol.
I can't believe he did it, I am still laughing. :)
Haha! Now where are the memes?
This is so awesome!!
Here is a video:
What a hero!
Edit: People on Twitter are bidding on the notepad now. Highest bid so far: 1.1 BTC.
Edit 2: He already received over 2.3 BTC in donations from people around the world
thats amazing! such suppport from the BTC community! nowhere do more people have this much excess spendable income but in crypto! nowhere can u so easily send money around the world!
wow this encourages MORE people to hold up bitcoin signs on live TV!
its like how steemit pays people to advertise for steemit!
lets do a $1000 prize for ANYONE who can get STEEMIT.com or BUY STEEM STEEMIT.COM on live televiosion like the infowars BILL CLINTON IS A RAPIST contest where alex jones gave out like $5000 to anyoen who could get that onve TV
it was a HUGE success
we should do a similar thing where we offer $100 maybe to start for anyone who can get Steem logo on live anyone who can get 1 million views on a video about Joining Steemit
Epic, this is well worth the suspension!
Some guy on twitter tries to impersonate this hero to claim some BTC.
https://twitter.com/WalterCBitcoin
That's not a Walter C Allen, that's Otto Warmbier, the recently deceased American student who died in North Korea ->
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/19/otto-warmbier-dies-coma-student-north-korea-prison
Wikipedia source with picture
This whole story makes me go WOW...
EDITED after @penguinpablo removed this twitter link from his comment.
That is awesome. Thanks for sharing. I am sure people are going to send him some!
Walter C. Allen for Congress!
Balls and Bitcoins
Brilliant!
Hero, you should be promoted!
That's a damn good idea hahaha I'm very curious to see what he ends up getting out of this.
seems like the left piece of paper does not belong to the pad of paper on the right side ; )
This is great! Yellen is a clueless idiot. I love how Mr. Allen photo bombed her right when she said that the Fed was transparent. This will go down in history. Perfect timing.
That's really funny. What she said was funny too, the fed is the most transparent , while avoiding the audit
We are transparent we swear, just don't audit us!
Dude, that hilarious!
she said
then comes out bitcoin sign as if to say yo, it's me.
That guy is an absolute legend
its like the story of the guy who went on the news and held up his QR code for his wallet, and people sent him bitcoins immediately after haha
gotta know how to play the game!
Janet Yellen seems to avoid every question, doesn't matter what the subject. But, I do love watching these testimonies, she is getting drilled!
Money and politics should not mix.
Problem is money is politics. They are both tools of influence. The more you have the more you can influence people to do what you want.
Exactly