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I wonder if it is an early miner, or a certain black pirate...

Apparently people think its the Winklevoss' since they claimed to have bought ~1% of all BTC and the amount moved nicely coincides with about 1%

So if this currency does become ubiquitous the Winklevoss' will be the kings of the world? God dammit.

I believe the correct term is Winklevi.

I think Winklevii is more commonly used on reddit

They should really do a startup:

www.winklevoss.com

The original social network.

That certainly is kind of a dark prospect. Random people a mixture of varying degrees of foresight, money, and luck, suddenly becoming the richest people on the planet.

Gates built an empire. Yet the Winklevoss' will eclipse his wealth if BTC goes up just a few factors.

I don't begrudge people their gains, I'm just thinking about the seismic shift in power.

It couldn't be them - this was an odd number of bitcoins.

I know humor is forbidden, but I laughed out loud at this anyway. I felt compelled to comment because this is a difficult joke to setup in every day conversation.

Humor isn't forbidden, it's just really risky. If a joke is lame or offensive or obvious or falls flat, you'll be punished.

I'm surprised no one has identified what I think is the most likely situation: bitcoin theft.

Are you suggesting that any given transaction is most likely to be a theft?

I think the point is that the only reason to transfer such a large sum of money is either buying/selling something or stealing. And considering there probably aren't many (if any) things one can buy with that many bitcoins, theft seems to be most likely scenario.

>I think the point is that the only reason to transfer such a large sum of money is either buying/selling something or stealing.

Perhaps you could be a little less specific?

>And considering there probably aren't many (if any) things one can buy with that many bitcoins, theft seems to be most likely scenario.

You could buy a lot of something from a private entity who really values Bitcoin.

Another option: Perhaps the security of the private key of the old address was in question, so a new address was created with a new, secure private key.

Or Cryptolocker/other cyber criminals

Could this not be some large purchase with a bitcoin payment attached to a contract?

Could a contract enforce a bitcoin transfer?

Or just an exchanges cold storage...

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