Naively: the price of Bitcoin on April 3 2017 when this blog post was published was around $1100, so the author could have bought 3.68 BTC with his $4050. Even

Naively: the price of Bitcoin on April 3 2017 when this blog post was published was around $1100, so the author could have bought 3.68 BTC with his $4050. Even if he sold BTC at the all-time peak of $64863 he'd only make a third of what GitLab options would make.