Mentougou Mountain The iconic handwritten sign during the Gox event was publicly auctioned at a bottom price of 4.5 BTC

On a cold morning in February 2014, according to CoinDesk, Kolin Burges stood outside the office of Mt. Gox in Tokyo, holding a handwritten cardboard sign and demanding an explanation from the CEO of the trading platform, Mark Karpeles, for his missing Bitcoin. Eleven years later, this iconic sign, which became a symbol of the first major financial scandal involving cryptocurrency, is now in Scare City Auction, with a minimum price of 4.5 BTC (approximately $383000). The auction will start this Friday and end on April 3rd. Burges said in an interview, "At that time, I never thought it would become valuable. I thought maybe one day I would write a book, but this sign itself never seemed so important. It's really hard to imagine things going to this extent Burges flew from London to Tokyo after mysteriously freezing withdrawals at Mt. Gox.