3 more hours and the USMS will notify the winning bidder that his bid has been selected.
including the price per bitcoin?I think the winning bidder has quite a good idea what his bid was, no need for the USMS to remind him.
Really, only 11 bidders? That is fairly bearish news, if true. Didn't we have close to 30 bidders in previous auctions?
Yeah.
http://www.coindesk.com/bidder-turnout-low-silk-road-bitcoin-auction/
Although it doesn't necessarily mean bears in my opinion. The amount of coins was nothing compared to previous auctions as well.
Thanks for that link. That may clear up one point for me, and it appears that in a couple of hours, the bidders find out whether they won or not, which could affect their behavior concerning whether they buy more coins or not with the proceeds that they had allocated for potentially winning some of the blocks.
Further, it appears that the public would not find out about the identity of the bidder until Monday, at the earliest, and that is if the winning bidder were to chose to disclose such information.
Gosh. There must have been some crazy spread in the bids this time around based on the then price fluctuations of BTC prices.