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Just realized something wild about bitcoin price history. If you'd invested $100 back in 2008 when BTC was trading around $0.06, you'd have grabbed over 1,600 coins for basically nothing. Fast forward through the years and that initial hundred bucks becomes absolutely insane. By early 2017 when bitcoin price hit $965, your position was already worth over $1.6M. Then December 2017 happened - price exploded to nearly $20k and suddenly you're looking at $32 million. Even after the crashes, by 2023 when bitcoin price ranged from $23k to $45k, that original investment was worth anywhere from $39M to $76M depending on when you checked. Now we're in 2026 and bitcoin is sitting around $79.6k, which means that tiny $100 gamble from 2008 would be worth... honestly hard to even calculate without sounding crazy. The really insane part? Most people had no idea bitcoin price would ever move like this. The volatility was terrifying back then - you had massive swings like 2012 where it went from $4 to $266 in a few months, then crashed back down. But if you somehow held through all that chaos, the long-term math is just bonkers. Not saying this is investment advice or anything, but the historical data tells a pretty interesting story about early adoption.