What's the largest BTC purchase to date?

[coinrunner]

Doing a bit of research here...

Whats the largest BTC purchase to date?  BTC for a physical product.

There was the 2014 Lamborghini Gallardo purchase in Long Beach for  216.8433 bitcoins or ~$209,995.  

Anything larger than that? I'm interested in Fiat value of item at time of purchase.  So Pizza's for $2M don't qualify.  

[Bitcoi2n2n]

Got more info on that Lamborghini purchase?
Never heard of it, why would someone buy that in Bitcoins? Was it DPR who bought it? lol

[pontiacg5]

Got more info on that Lamborghini purchase?
Never heard of it, why would someone buy that in Bitcoins? Was it DPR who bought it? lol

I think it was a member here by the name of "Goat" though I think he recently changed his name?

There are a few threads about it around here, and if I recall correctly Goat first heard of someone buying a Tesla S from the same dealership in bitcoins before contacting them himself.

[empoweoqwj]

Got more info on that Lamborghini purchase?
Never heard of it, why would someone buy that in Bitcoins? Was it DPR who bought it? lol

There's an "official" thread about it somewhere, sorry I don't have the URL to hand.

The buyer was "ChaangNoy (Goat)", a Thai living in the US

[coinrunner]

Got more info on that Lamborghini purchase?
Never heard of it, why would someone buy that in Bitcoins? Was it DPR who bought it? lol

Here's an article on it:

http://www.dailydot.com/business/4chan-bitcoin-lamborghini/

[empoweoqwj]

Got more info on that Lamborghini purchase?
Never heard of it, why would someone buy that in Bitcoins? Was it DPR who bought it? lol

Here's an article on it:

http://www.dailydot.com/business/4chan-bitcoin-lamborghini/

Thanks for the link. He's my hero!

[Bitcoi2n2n]

Got more info on that Lamborghini purchase?
Never heard of it, why would someone buy that in Bitcoins? Was it DPR who bought it? lol

Here's an article on it:

http://www.dailydot.com/business/4chan-bitcoin-lamborghini/

Thanks!

The only thing that weirds me out about this is that it is pretty much clear that such large amounts of BTC are very likely to have been obtained through not legal methods. And most people know. And no one cares, he has bought his Lamborghini with his questionably earned money and that's it. Very very unlikely that he bought all this Bitcoins. I dunno, it's just kinda bizarre to me.

[TheQuote]

http://nypost.com/2014/01/04/real-estate-broker-we-accept-bitcoin/

[empoweoqwj]

Got more info on that Lamborghini purchase?
Never heard of it, why would someone buy that in Bitcoins? Was it DPR who bought it? lol

Here's an article on it:

http://www.dailydot.com/business/4chan-bitcoin-lamborghini/

Thanks!

The only thing that weirds me out about this is that it is pretty much clear that such large amounts of BTC are very likely to have been obtained through not legal methods. And most people know. And no one cares, he has bought his Lamborghini with his questionably earned money and that's it. Very very unlikely that he bought all this Bitcoins. I dunno, it's just kinda bizarre to me.

How the heck can you infer that? He was an early adopter. What is wrong with that exactly? "Pretty much clear such large amounts of BTC are very likely to have been obtained through not legal methods". What total unfounded nonsense. Show us some proof of his wrongdoing or shut up.

[bobcaticus]

Don't forget the 10,000 BTC pizza order.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2013/12/23/the-bitcoin-pizza-purchase-thats-worth-7-million-today/

[BTC-TK]

Don't forget the 10,000 BTC pizza order.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2013/12/23/the-bitcoin-pizza-purchase-thats-worth-7-million-today/

10mil for a pizza, hope that it was a nice pizza with like pepperoni and cola.

[Bitcoinpro]

http://nypost.com/2014/01/04/real-estate-broker-we-accept-bitcoin/

things are starting to turn very bullish indeed

[granolageek]

The only thing that weirds me out about this is that it is pretty much clear that such large amounts of BTC are very likely to have been obtained through not legal methods. And most people know. And no one cares, he has bought his Lamborghini with his questionably earned money and that's it. Very very unlikely that he bought all this Bitcoins. I dunno, it's just kinda bizarre to me.

He's an old timer. The very fact that he was willing to publicly use such a large sum strongly indicates that they were legally acquired, either by mining when it was easy, or buying when they were cheap. Even in early 2012, 200 BTC was only $1000.

[Raghnar]

How the heck can you infer that? He was an early adopter. What is wrong with that exactly? "Pretty much clear such large amounts of BTC are very likely to have been obtained through not legal methods". What total unfounded nonsense. Show us some proof of his wrongdoing or shut up.

Why do you infer that something that is not legal is necessarily "wrongdoing"?

[keithers]

The purchase of SatoshiDice or whatever was like 120k bitcoins wasn't it?

[empoweoqwj]

The only thing that weirds me out about this is that it is pretty much clear that such large amounts of BTC are very likely to have been obtained through not legal methods. And most people know. And no one cares, he has bought his Lamborghini with his questionably earned money and that's it. Very very unlikely that he bought all this Bitcoins. I dunno, it's just kinda bizarre to me.

He's an old timer. The very fact that he was willing to publicly use such a large sum strongly indicates that they were legally acquired, either by mining when it was easy, or buying when they were cheap. Even in early 2012, 200 BTC was only $1000.

+1

He's been around for ages and got in early, didn't sell his coins, played it really clever, that's all. Implying he is a crook, really ...