The archivist first saw $0XD9BC as a line in a block and thought nothing of it, which is how most of these begin. It was 3.9 hours old when this page was last touched. 45 buyers had found it in a day, 1796.73 ETH had moved through it in that time, which on a chain this loud is neither much nor nothing.
Then it rose. Not slowly; nothing on this chain rises slowly. Buyers came and the price climbed the way prices climb when everyone believes the same thing at the same hour, and it stands at $1.44M now.
The archivist notes the rise, and notes in the same breath that every coin on the graveyard once had a page that read exactly like this one.