$500,000 in Bitcoin Just Bought Someone a Villa in Bali[ Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:49:29 GMT ]A brand-new villa on the southern coast of Bali has just changed hands — for somewhere above 800 bitcoins. In what appears to be the largest real-world-money purchase in bitcoin's history, an anonymous buyer has picked up a new house for the cryptocurrency equivalent of about $500,000.