You’ve probably heard a lot about Bitcoin, but little do you know that you missed out by not investing even a hundred quid ten years ago.

That’s right, what you’re about to read is going to make you wish that you could make like Marty McFly and travel back to a time, when you could have inadvertently made yourself a bit of extra cash.

Now, Bitcoin is something that a lot of people are serious about investing in, and it was basically the thing that popularised cryptocurrency for a lot of people in our generation.

Some people scrimped and saved to buy just one Bitcoin, and although they might have cashed out ages ago, others kept hold of it like a lifeline.

That’s because the returns are getting better and better.

Considering it’s not even tangible money that you can feel in your hand, it sure does look nice when you open your app to find that the £100 you spent in November 2014 has now turned into a mini jackpot.

According to Coin Gecko, the price of one bitcoin has seen a whopping 2,054 percent rise in the last decade, which is great news for those who actually took the leap to buy some.

That’s around a 25.3 percent year-on-year increase of $1,226.31 each year.

Had you invested a hundred back then, you’d have had 0.42 Bitcoin, making you a tasty £28,644 (ish) quid back on your investment today in 2024.

The average price for one Bitcoin ten years ago was about £238, and as Bitcoin is trading near the £68,200 mark, your sliver of Bitcoin would have substantially increased in value.

But it’s not all been shiny for Bitcoin, as it actually had two recent drops that were downright insane.

Between 2018 and 2019, the value of Bitcoin dropped 73 percent, and there was also a 64 percent drop between 2022 and 2023.

The volatile crypto market is well-known, and you’ve got to take the risk to be in for a chance to win the rewards.

And the rewards just keep mounting as it continues to increase its value.

But imagine if your value was so much more than nearly 30k? Say, £495 million?

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That would be an amazing thing to have accomplished.

That is, unless you accidentally threw it out, and the council went on to refuse to let you dig it up.

This is exactly what happened to James Howells, 39.

Howells is now set to head for court later this year, as he says he has ‘pinpointed’ the exact spot where his lost bin bag containing his fortune in cryptocurrency is, and he isn’t taking no for an answer.

He said: “It is what it is. I could spend the rest of my life working nine-to-five and thinking about it every day. I might as well spend my time trying to recover this simple piece of metal.

“Until the courts tells me ‘N-O spells no’, I’m going to keep going. Obviously my finances are not in the best position at the moment.

“I’m focusing all my current efforts and resources, including money, on the recovery project. I struggle along in the meantime.

“But the legal effort is covered. We’re willing to go all the way to the appeals court, the Supreme Court. With a case of this magnitude I’m expecting to go the full distance. I didn’t really want to go to court but this is the final shot.”

Cryptocurrency has become the investment craze of the past 10 years or so, with several of them having reached ridiculously high values in such a short period of time.

But with that, a lot of cryptocurrencies have violently tanked and are now worth nothing, despite people investing thousands into them.

Volatile doesn’t even begin to explain it, but the leading cryptocurrency has always been Bitcoin.

And if you were smart enough to listen to this man, you would be very rich today:

Bitcoin was launched in 2009 with a value of exactly $0 per asset.

But over the years, it has sharply increased and decreased in value, almost like a badly designed rollercoaster.

On Thursday morning though, the value of Bitcoin hit upwards of $63,000 (£49,900), following a day of sharp rises.

It indicates that Bitcoin is nearing its all-time high, which was hit in November 2021, amidst people turning to the cryptocurrency during the pandemic.

Back then, the value of a Bitcoin hit $67,707 (£53,500) before plummeting in value in the latter stages of 2022.

As it begins to increase in value, it makes you wonder just how much would you have made if you got in early, was way ahead of the curve and dumped some money into Bitcoin?

Well, unsurprisingly, it’s a lot of dough.

If you invested just £100 into the asset when it was launched, the value of your profit would sit in the millions or billions.

However, how much would that be exactly?

Well, we asked ChatGPT what the investment would be worth today, if you were telepathic enough to put that amount down in 2009.

Firstly, for the sake of ease, £100 would have got you an estimated 100,000 Bitcoins in 2009, and with its value hitting £49,977.84, that would work out to a total of £4,997,784,000 today.

That’s a profit of almost five billion of the King’s finest.

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Again, this is only if you held on to the cryptocurrency through all the price fluctuations for 15 years.

I’m sure early sellers will be kicking themselves repeatedly right now.

So if Bitcoin were to continue its recent upward trend and surpass its previous high of $67,707, and get to say, $70,000, the total would be a lot higher.

Just over £5.5 billion for those who were wondering.

If you were one of the unlucky ones who stumbled across Davinci Jeremie’s YouTube video all those years ago and inevitably ignored it – that’s really rough.

In the past 10 years, cryptocurrency has become one of the biggest investment crazes with several of them reaching extortionate values in only a short period of time.

But with the sharp highs come the short lows, as a lot of cryptocurrencies have violently tanked and are now worth almost nothing.

The investment choice is beyond volatile, but the leading cryptocurrency is none other than Bitcoin.

And if we were all smart enough to listen to this bloke, we’d be swimming in it right now:

Launched in 2009 with a value of exactly $0, Bitcoin has sharply increased and decreased in value ever since, comparing to a badly designed rollercoaster.

But on Thursday morning (29 February), the value of Bitcoin skyrocketed and hit a value upwards of $63,000 (£49,900), following a day of sharp rises.

These promising signs indicate that Bitcoin is nearing its all-time high value, which was hit amidst the pandemic in November 2021, with several people turning to cryptocurrency as an investment option.

Back then, the value of one Bitcoin hit $67,707 (£53,500) before plummeting in value in the latter stages of 2022.

As it begins to increase in value, it makes you wonder just how much would you have made if you got in early, was way ahead of the curve and dumped some money into Bitcoin?

Well, unsurprisingly, it’s a lot of dough.

So, how much would that be exactly?

Well, we asked ChatGPT what the investment would be worth today, if you were telepathic enough to put that amount down in 2009.

Firstly, £1000 would have got you an estimated 1,000,000 Bitcoins in 2009, and with its value hitting £49,977.84, that would work out to a total of £49,977,840,000 today.

That’s a profit of almost fifty billion of the King’s finest.

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Again, this is only if you held on to the cryptocurrency through all the price fluctuations for 15 years.

I’m sure early sellers will be kicking themselves repeatedly right now.

So if Bitcoin were to continue its recent upward trend and surpass its previous high of $67,707, and get to say, $70,000, the total would be a lot higher.

Just over £55 billion for those who were wondering.

You might have many regrets in life, but not taking a chance on Bitcoin all those years ago could be the biggest one.

Although plowing a significant amount of cash into digital currencies is a huge risk, like any investment, it can pay off big time when its price is on the up.

The value of the likes of Bitcoin, Doge, Ethereum and Tether varies constantly – some cryptocurrencies will soar in value, or could completely tank, so your always taking a gamble.

Some people can sniff out a good thing a mile away though, such as Davinci Jeremie. Take a look at this:

Way back in May 2013, the bloke from Chile shared a video on YouTube encouraging his subscribers to buy one dollar worth of Bitcoin, saying they could potentially become millionaires for the ‘price of a lotto ticket’.

He added: “If I’m right I want all of you to thank me, it will not make me happy if you come back to me in 10 years saying, ‘Dude, I wish I listened to you back 2011 or 2013’.”

If your wondering what Davinci is doing nowadays, he’s living the high life and holidays in places like Monte Carlo and Dubai while smugly donning a t-shirt emblazoned with the slogan: “I told you so.”

If one look at the investor’s Instagram doesn’t leave you kicking yourself for not braving the Bitcoin world, the fact that its price has shot to a record high certainly will.

The worth of the popular cryptocurrency has now soared by more than $30,000 (£23,385) since the start of the year, thanks to a boost from institutional investors.

On Monday (11 March) morning, Bitcoin was trading at a whopping $71,588 (£55,804) – just one week after it hit a new record high of $69,000 (£53,787).

It comes as the London Stock Exchange said it would start accepting applications for bitcoin exchange-traded notes (ETNs) from next month, which are debt securities which provide exposure to an underlying asset.

The Financial Conduct Authority also announced it would ‘not object’ to investment exchanges creating a market segment based in the United Kingdom for crypto asset-backed exchange traded notes [cETNs] – in other words, a financial product that can be traded like like stocks and shares.

But the FCA said it wouldn’t allow this for the public or retail investors due to risks, leaving the market somewhat limited.

In a statement, the FCA said: “The FCA continues to remind people that crypto-assets are high risk and largely unregulated. Those who invest should be prepared to lose all their money.”

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But this Bitcoin boost surely gets you thinking… how much could you have earned if you had taken the advice of people like Davinci and dumped some money into the cryptocurrency?

Well, if you’d have put £100 on the line back in 2010 when pricing data first started becoming available, you’d be sitting on more than a small fortune – to the tune of millions or billions.

First off, £100 would have got you an estimated 100,000 Bitcoins in 2009.

As the value has now hit £55,804, this means you would now have a tidy £5,580,400,000 – and just imagine what fun you could be having with that.

£5 billion isn’t a bad reward for holding onto the cryptocurrency through all the price fluctuations for 15 years, is it?

I sure wish I could turn back the clock!