U.S. Government To Kickstart Three-day Bitcoin Auction On Tuesday
The U.S. government has announced that it will be auctioning off bitcoins in a three-day auction starting Tuesday, October 26th. The auction will be carried out online and will see the bitcoins auctioned off in batches by the U.S. government. GSA Auctions carry out auctions on behalf of the U.S. government to clear surplus assets […]
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Crypto lender Voyager Digital Ltd., which is at present bankrupt, has begun its auction in New York. The venue for the auction is at the midtown office of investment bank Moelis. The auction can stretch beyond Tuesday. The result of the bid or the bids shall be disclosed in a hearing which has been scheduled […]
The French government will auction 611 bitcoins that were seized from hackers next week. There will be two sales comprised of 478 lots altogether. Each lot consists of between 0.11 and 20 bitcoins. Paris-based auction house Kapandji Morhange will auction 611 bitcoins on March 17. The company says this is the first auction of seized bitcoin by the French government. At the current price, this amount of bitcoin is worth almost $34 million. According to the auctioneer’s website, two sales will be conducted: one at 9 A.M. and the other at 2 P.M. The first sale consists of 437 lots of....
So far, the auction held by The Shadow Brokers has collected 1.761 Bitcoin, which is next to nothing. The Shadow Brokers are attracting a lot of attention with their so-called NSA exploit kit auction. Although the group is demanding a price of 1 million Bitcoin, several of the bis which have been confirmed raise some questions. The US government obtained several thousand Bitcoin when shutting down Silk Road. What is preventing them from using this funds to win the auction? Hardly anyone will be surprised to hear the US government will do everything they can to prevent this NSA toolkit from....
On Tuesday, the British-founded American multinational luxury auction company Sotheby’s, headquartered in New York City, announced the auction house is planning to auction a lot of 104 non-fungible token (NFT) Cryptopunks. The lot of 104 NFTs is predicted to fetch around $20 million to $30 million in USD value, according to Sotheby’s.
Sotheby’s ‘Punk It!’ Auction to Sell 104 Cryptopunks
The luxury auction house Sotheby’s plans to auction 104 Cryptopunks on February 23, according to an announcement from the company’s official....
New York-based bitcoin exchange itBit has revealed it successfully secured five auction blocks as part of last week's bitcoin auction overseen by the US Marshals Service (USMS). The event saw the government agency oversee the sale of 44,000 BTC (valued at $16.6m at press time) on the open market, with each auction block consisting of 2,000 BTC or more. Bobby Cho, Director of Trading at itBit, told CoinDesk: "We confirm that itBit's auction bid, organized on behalf of a syndicate of our exchange and OTC trading clients, won five blocks in the final USMS auction." The exchange had originally....