BUY BITCOIN SIGN TURNS 9 YEARS OLD
Nine years ago today, on July 12, 2017, then-22-year-old intern Christian Langalis slipped into the audience behind Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen during her semiannual testimony before Congress and held up a handwritten sign reading just two words: “Buy Bitcoin.”
The sign appeared on live television for only a few seconds before security eventually escorted Langalis from the hearing.
He later said he never expected anyone to notice, believing he would simply save a screenshot from the broadcast as a personal keepsake.
His phone had died before the hearing began, so he didn’t realize the stunt had gone viral until after he left.
Langalis later explained he attended the hearing while working at a macro hedge fund and had grown tired of what he described as “Fed worship.”
As a libertarian influenced by Bitcoin’s cypherpunk roots, he said the sign reflected his broader belief that central banking and state-controlled money should be challenged.
He kept the original sign in a sock drawer for years before auctioning at PubKey in New York in April 2024.
A pseudonymous bidder purchased the piece of Bitcoin history for 16 BTC, worth more than $1 million at the time.
History books before 1913 warned Americans about central banks — about money changers — about exactly what we're living through.
After 1913 those warnings disappeared from education.
They rewrote history to protect their system. Just like they tried to erase Andrew Jackson. T
Trump is restoring the real history — and people are starting to see what was hidden.
I would rather ride Bitcoin to zero than go back to the fiat slavery system.
I'm not the only one, there is an army of us that think this way.
Bitcoin or slavery.
I can’t stop thinking about Bitcoin. Ever.
Because I spent years watching intelligent people dedicate their entire lives to optimizing around a problem they never questioned.
Working overtime. Negotiating raises.
You know, climbing ladders, managing teams, building businesses… things of that sort.
All while standing on a monetary floor that quietly sinks a few inches every year.
So basically the weirdest part of Bitcoin is what it does to your perception.
You start noticing that entire careers exist to outrun monetary decay.
Industries exist to outrun it.
Governments exist because of it.
Financial advisors exist because of it.
Half the economy feels like a giant exoskeleton humanity built around a broken measuring stick.
Then some autistic stranger on the internet tells you to buy a digital bearer asset and go for a walk.
And somehow that explanation starts making more sense than the civilization you grew up in.
That’s the part I can’t shake.
Bitcoin is exposing a layer of reality that most people never realized they were standing on.
And every day it survives, it becomes harder to ignore.
Forever.
Why is food worse? Why is service terrible? Why does nothing work anymore?
It goes back to ONE THING: the central bank system.
Inflation devalued the currency so corporations switched to plastic and styrofoam. Wages couldn't keep up so businesses replaced workers with touchscreens.
Every single decline in your daily life traces back to the Federal Reserve. That is what Trump is dismantling.
Inflation is a hidden tax. More debt = more interest = more taxes = you work harder.
They brought in illegals to keep wages low. Moved manufacturing overseas. Put you on two or three part-time jobs just to survive.
The central bank system was NEVER designed to make you wealthy. It was designed to keep you working to fund THEIR criminal syndicate.
You hate Apple but own Apple stock.
You hate Microsoft but own Microsoft stock.
You hate the banks but your money funds them.
Your portfolio is funding everything you're against.
Bitcoin is the first money that lets your morals and your money finally agree.
Opt out. Own it. Build your own empire.
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