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What is the single largest transaction of bitcoins on the block chain to date?

I read in an old thread it was ~35k bitcoins or something about a year ago.

Anybody?

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In the last 300 blocks the largest transaction was 10934.41 btc.

Thanks for that! No "all time" settings huh?

And does that 10934.41 mean it was all for one single transaction? Or just any number of transactions made within a 10 minute period/block hash?

In block 104,889 was a 250,000 BTC output and a 150,000 BTC output (from a 400,000 BTC input).
  http://blockexplorer.com/b/104889 (http://blockexplorer.com/b/104889)

Wow I don't think I'd risk such a large sum in one lump.
Has a transaction ever been 'lost in the mail'?

Notice that those 400,000 BTC come from a single transaction in block 104,770:

http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000022043f9ea2c298f3381c6ddd86b968271117dd55cb48ac297954c


From that, you conclude whatever you want.

Fees were paid to help guarantee the transaction. Obviously smart for the transaction amount.  Someone needs to dig deeper into this and tell the story.  I believe it's a mining operation consolidating accounts? maybe?

My guess is: mybitcoin moving its main wallet

satoshi transferred bitcoins to the cia.
 :D

satoshi is gearing up for the cryptocurrency war.

He have great plans for the defense of bitcoin, you see?  ;)

That one for 400,000 BTC is the most valuable transaction. The block it is in is also the most valuable block.

Largest block by data size:
http://blockexplorer.com/b/92037

Largest block by number of transactions:
http://blockexplorer.com/b/92944

Transaction with most inputs:
http://blockexplorer.com/t/55mvNHTqsH

Transaction with most outputs:
http://blockexplorer.com/t/25Q3XTsoe3

Address with most transactions:
http://blockexplorer.com/a/2isMCwqPQ2

Currently 51646 generations are unspent out of 115881. That's 2.5 million BTC.

Wow... does that mean that one person holds that much of the total number to date? 

No, but probably a relatively small number of people share it.

It could be a place like deepbit or mt gox.

Yes that is the largest. Top 5:

1) 550,000 BTC (http://blockchain.info/tx-index/12279571)

2) 500,020 BTC (http://blockchain.info/tx-index/12286619)

3) 499,743 BTC (http://blockchain.info/tx-index/12323421)

4) 499,660 BTC (http://blockchain.info/tx-index/12325588)

5) 499,620 BTC (http://blockchain.info/tx-index/12327042)

Or a testament to the security of the bitcoin network.

Nonsense.

There was once a lost transaction that sought to bring down the Bitcoin network, but the heroic actions of the Founders stopped it.  It was the largest transaction ever to be recorded, but nobody knows of it anymore.






true story.

As I recall one of the biggest was back when people a lot of people were convinced that Mt Gox had had not only its database hacked, but it's entire bitcoin stash hacked.

In order to prove that they still had control of all of their reserves they did a single large transfer that everyone could see in the block chain.

Though as I recall at the time they transferred like 420,000 coins just because the number 42 is always fun.

Maybe Mt Gox continues to transfer it back and forth once a month so they can always prove they have control of their reserve>

is it really though?

if only one address gets broken into today, then the whole Bitcoin concept is finished, done, nadda.  yes, as the years grind along, and as faster and faster computers get developed, like potentially quantum, the odds go up that one address can be hacked.

however, this assumes the devs all go on vacation and don't keep up with modifications to the algorithms.  this won't happen hopefully and assuming it doesn't, then its a continual arms race. if you believe the devs can stay ahead of the hackers then you believe in Bitcoin.  if you don't then you'd better just quit now.

in this sense, i believe that one address is just as secure as one hundred.

ok, i understand where you're coming from better.

and in the case of mtgox, where the identity of the owner is known and the fact that he appears to have large sums on certain addresses, what you say does seem prudent.

however, in an individuals case who has taken the time to make an offline wallet and whose address with the large sum can't be traced to him, i think he is fairly safe.

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