Buzz: Hear­ing bit­coin ‘sign’ sells for $1 mil­lion, Nadler eras­es ‘the peo­ple’ from Sec­ond Amend­ment

A “Buy Bit­coin” sign, scrib­bled on a yel­low legal pad and held up for C‑SPAN behind Trea­sury Sec­re­tary Janet Yellen at a 2017 hear­ing, sold at auc­tion for near­ly $1 mil­lion.
The ham­mer dropped at about $980,986, mak­ing for­mer Cato Insti­tute intern Chris­t­ian Lan­galis pret­ty wealthy.

He said on the Scarce City auc­tion site, “It’s good to final­ly lib­er­ate this num­ber from my sock draw­er and offer it back to the Bit­coin pub­lic. The mes­sage was sub­ver­sive then, but now mere­ly obvi­ous: Bit­coin is flow­ing. Con­trol is dead.”
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— Not that Rep. Jer­rold Nadler (D‑NY) cares, but he came under fire last week when he mis­read the Sec­ond Amend­ment dur­ing a House hear­ing. The gun con­trol advo­cate erased “the peo­ple” from the amend­ment when he read it: “A well reg­u­lat­ed Mili­tia being nec­es­sary for the secu­ri­ty of a free State, the right to bear Arms shall not be infringed.” It actu­al­ly reads, “A well reg­u­lat­ed Mili­tia, being nec­es­sary to the secu­ri­ty of a free State, the …