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?
only the first one
11 was a tie with with another auction, lowest precipitation, as the twins said, it's kinda pointless to go to these you're pretty much guaranteed to buy at the top.
Not if you put in a really cheapskate bid and it wins because nobody else made any bids. They have to pay some money to bid plus make a deposit. I don't think they get the bidding fee back, but the deposit gets returned so it doesn't cost silly money to put a cheapskate bid on.
Does anybody know the fee that they have to pay in order to bid?
That's a little bit crazy that there is a fee (but upon reflection it does make some sense to have some kind of fee for the government to ensure some sure revenue from the administration of the process, and it may provide a bit more assurance of serious bidders). Likely the non-refundable fee affects how much bidders are willing to bid, depending on how large is that fee.