198,333,000% Bitcoin Surge in Past 15 Years May Have Made This Guy Multimillionaire

Buying and selling X account @crypto_rand has drawn the group’s consideration to the immense share progress demonstrated by the world’s bellwether cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, over the previous decade and a half.

He additionally talked about a Twitter consumer who might have turn into a multimillionaire throughout that time frame.

Bitcoin up 198,333,000% in previous 15 years

The screenshot shared by the aforementioned X account reveals a tweet issued again on August 12, 2010, by a man named Christian Walker (@javashaman) who bragged about having mined 100 Bitcoins and asking if he was wealthy but.

@crypto_rand acknowledged that in 2010, Bitcoin traded at a value of $0.06 per BTC and 100 Bitcoins value $6 fifteen years in the past. In 2025, the worth of 100 Bitcoins is $11,900,000. This can be a staggering progress of 198,333,000%.

It isn’t recognized, nonetheless, if Christian Walker nonetheless holds this Bitcoin or if he offered it a lot earlier. His X account nonetheless exists nevertheless it appears inactive. The man joined Twitter when it was based -in 2006. His newest tweet is dated February 2, 2024. The tweets that come earlier than that have been printed in 2018 (only one). Two posts have been tweeted in 2015. Nearly all of his social media exercise on Twitter occurred between 2010 and 2013.

Curiously the Bitcoin tweet talked about by @crypto_rand is lacking on the man’s Twitter wall and there’s a utterly completely different publish printed on August 12, 2010. Nonetheless, chances are high that he had eliminated his BTC publish.

Satoshi Nakamoto vanishes in 2010, too

Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious Bitcoin creator mined the primary BTC block in 2009. In December 2010, he posted his ultimate message on the BitcoinTalk discussion board, notifying the group that he was shifting on to different initiatives, leaving Bitcoin in good arms. Since then, no person has heard of him. Nobody is conscious of his actual id or his whereabouts.

The one who acquired the very first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi was Hal Finney. He was the primary to obtain and run the Bitcoin software program. In 2013, Finney posted his ultimate message on BitcoinTalk earlier than dying a yr later from an irreversible illness.