This is how much money you'd have today if you invested $100 in Bitcoin when it started
Published on Jan 29, 2026 at 3:28 PM (UTC+4)
by Daisy Edwards
Last updated on Jan 29, 2026 at 3:28 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
If you have any regrets about not investing in Bitcoin (BTC) at the start, then this article about what $100 in 2009 money would look like now might not be for you.
Bitcoin has been called a once-in-a-generation money story, and the early numbers still look unreal.
Back in the cryptocurrency’s scrappy early days, $100 could have picked up a ridiculous amount of BTC, but now the numbers are impossible to ignore.
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Life would be different if you invested $100 in Bitcoin at the start
Bitcoin was a form of crypto that didn’t launch with a shiny Wall Street ticker or a good app.
In the beginning, it was basically a niche experiment shared around online communities, worth next to nothing and mostly ignored by mainstream finance bros.
That’s why the early price points feel almost fictional now.
One example that still makes people wince is the famous pizza purchase in May 2010, when 10,000 Bitcoin were spent on two pizzas.
At the time, those 10,000 BTC were valued at about $41, but that same stack of BTC today would be worth a mind-bending fortune.
It also shows just how different the ‘start’ of cryptocurrency was compared to buying it now.
There were no big exchanges, no Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), and no casual tap-to-buy buttons, and early holders had to be comfortable living on the edge.
Plenty of people lost access over the years through forgotten passwords, old hard drives, or accounts they could no longer log into.
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The money you’d have today is mind-blowing
A commonly used early benchmark is October 2010, when Bitcoin was around $0.10 per coin; at that price, $100 of your 2009 money have bought you 1,000 BTC.
Fast forward to today’s price of $87,834.93 per Bitcoin, and those 1,000 BTC would be worth $87,834,930.
That is $87.8 million from a single $100 purchase, assuming you held every coin the whole time and never sold, traded, or lost access to your bitcoins.
It’s the kind of number that turns a cheap risk into unimaginable generational wealth, and it explains why Bitcoin’s early history is still the ultimate what-if story.
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