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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
Murch
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dontmindme
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    Do you count using Bitcoin to buy fiat currency? – Nick ODell Jun 07 '16 at 02:09
  • @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 Jun 07 '16 at 02:11
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    related: [What is the largest transaction by value to date for bitcoin currency?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/3287/5406) – Murch Jun 07 '16 at 09:31

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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)

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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

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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.

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    Please provide evidence or support for your answer. As it is, it seems to be completely speculative. – Murch Jun 12 '16 at 22:33