On This Date 16 Years Ago, Seller Offered 500 Bitcoin for $1 — Worth $45 Million Today
Benzinga·2026-01-25 03:15

An offer made 16 years ago to sell 500 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) for just $1 is trending online.The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, celebrated Bitcoin’s valuation surge by sharing a 2010 Bitcointalk post on X. In the post, a user offered a digital image for 500 BTC, which was equivalent to $1 at the time, signifying the early, experimental stages of the cryptocurrency.Fast forward 16 years, the same 500 BTC is now valued at approximately $44.8 million, marking a growth of over four billion per ...