What is the most expensive Bitcoin purchase ever made?

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Relying only on publicly disclosed data, what is the most expensive Bitcoin purchase that has ever occurred?

"Expensive" can be determined either by:

  1. Highest purchase price in Bitcoins
  2. Highest fiat value equivalent at the time

dontmindme

Posted 2016-06-07T01:52:22.583

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2Do you count using Bitcoin to buy fiat currency?Nick ODell 2016-06-07T02:09:35.083

@NickODell I had not thought of that (it is not what I had in mind) but am interested in that answer too. Was it the US Marshalls auction?dontmindme 2016-06-07T02:11:07.233

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I'd say it was the selling of dice gamling site SatoshiDice in 2013, according to the former owner it was sold for 126,315 BTC which was equivalent to ~$11,5 Million at that time.

More details can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101902.msg2751536#msg2751536

stke

Posted 2016-06-07T01:52:22.583

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If you mean the greatest amount of bitcoin spent, the "bitcoin pizza" comes to mind. At a whopping 10k BTC spent.

Pizza for bitcoins? (bitcointalk.org)

Papa Lazzarou

Posted 2016-06-07T01:52:22.583

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It could also be in the beginning when Satoshi probably sold a lot of bitcoins at cheap to his close friends.

letyouearn9

Posted 2016-06-07T01:52:22.583

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1Please provide evidence or support for your answer. As it is, it seems to be completely speculative.Murch 2016-06-12T22:33:40.903