🪙From $500 to $10,000,000 on Bitcoin
In 2012, Bitcointalk user JohnGalt bought a Casascius bar with 100 $BTC for just $500.
On May 13, 2025, after years of holding the unopened physical $BTC, he finally cracked the private key and moved the funds, now worth over $10M.
His words:
"When Bitcoin went over $10k a few years ago, I started getting real nervous. I mean, holding onto something worth over a million dollars? That’s a lot of pressure.
Now that it’s worth over $10 million, I knew I couldn’t keep just sitting on it. So, yeah… even though I was kinda unsure, I finally redeemed it today."