In September 2012, when presidential candidate Mitt Romney was threatened with blackmail unless he paid an anonymous group $1 million in Bitcoin, BitInstant's Erik Voorhees offered to purchase the Bitcoin for him without a fee.
On 18 July 2013, Erik Voorhees announced that SatoshiDice had been sold for 126,315 BTC, or US$12.4 million at the time of the announcement.
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