What If You’d Invested in Bitcoin?

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70 NEWS JAPAN - Welcome to the alternate cryptocurrency universe. Discovered in the early 2000s, Bitcoin first presented itself in 2009. At that point, however, nobody had assigned a monetary value to it and, as the tale goes, in 2010 a clever guy swapped 10,000 bitcoins for 2 pizzas. Since he was not a fortune-teller, he couldn’t have known that those bitcoins would be worth a fortune today!

For perspective on the phenomenal growth of Bitcoin, this infographic compares the current worth of the world’s richest people with how much a dollar invested in Bitcoin is 2010 is worth today.