Where are you getting your numbers? They don't match my recollection, or some articles I'm seeing: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/121815/bitcoins-

Where are you getting your numbers? They don't match my recollection, or some articles I'm seeing: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/121815/bitcoins-price-history.asp https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/121815/bitcoins-... "Bitcoin's price rose again on April 13, 2011, from $1 to a peak of $29.60 by June 7, 2011, a gain of 2,960% within three months. A sharp recession in cryptocurrency markets followed, and Bitcoin's price bottomed out at $2.05 by mid-November.4 The following year, its price rose from $4.85 on May 9 to $13.50 by Aug. 15." So let's use that $2.05 price as "ten years ago," I'm willing to give you 10 and a half years ;). A dollar in bitcoin then would be worth about $20,000 now. So sure, pretty good. Nowhere near tens of millions, though. And that $30->$2 change, and a few more up/down cycles between 2012 and 2017, shows that plenty of people thought it had already peaked. See also the various "oh no I lost my hard drive with the bitcoins I'd mined since I didn't think it was that important" stories. So sure, getting in for just a few bucks before 2011 and holding? Yeah, you're looking super great! But most people hadn't heard of it by then, and that's not who the article is talking about... when they did hear of it, you had a huge wave of pump-and-dump shitcoins proving the point of the article: the average person getting in at that point was largely too late for the level of return they were looking for.