The $26 million Bitcoin what-if—and the catch with early crypto investments
Quartz cautions that most of the early-crypto investment scenarios it examines were nearly impossible to act on at the time, despite their striking hypothetical returns.
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Quartz said on September 14, 2026, that $100 invested in Bitcoin in 2010 would be worth $26 million. Its comparison covers $100 investments at nine moments in crypto history, from Bitcoin at $0.30 in 2010 to buying at what it describes as October 2025's all-time high. The publisher cautions that most of these scenarios were nearly impossible to act on at the time.
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