The Times of India

If you bought just $1 of Bitcoin when it launched 17 years ago, how rich would you be today?

Bitcoins early years read like financial folklore. Launched in 2009 as a fringe experiment, it was dismissed, ignored, or casually spent. Yet tiny sums once worth dollars would today equal millions or billions. From lost hard drives to legendary pizza purchases, Bitcoins history is defined less by complexity than by scale, and how easily it was missed.