Unknown person buys $1.6 million in Bitcoin at government auction
A winning bidder claimed 2,700 BTC (worth $1.58m) at an auction held by the US Marshals Service (USMS) today.
You can read more here:
http://www.coindesk.com/unknown-bidder-buys-1-6-million-bitcoin-us-government-auction/
My guess is it's Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com.
It was paid to NSA hackers to get them to come home after they released NSA tools publicly in a leak! (all this auction business is a setup).