Golden Profit : The largest transaction to ever happen using bitcoin is 100 and fifty million bucks. This transaction occurred in seconds with minimal fee's. In order to transfer giant sums of money employing a "trusted third-party", it'd take days and price lots if not thousands of bucks. This explains why the banks are violently against people shopping for, selling, trading, transferring and spending bitcoins. Only.003% of the worlds (250,000) population is estimated to carry at least one bitcoin. And only twenty fourp.c of the population recognize what it is.