In the early days, Bitcoin traded on BitcoinTalkForum and PayPal at an average price of $0.00099. A bag of Bitcoin worth a dollar would be worth about $9.8 billion at today’s prices for the same amount of BTC.

That’s 989,898,990,000,000% (989 trillion percent) growth in BTC value over 16 years. That’s a growth rate so staggering that traditional financial markets have only recently begun to realize that it’s even possible.

Comparing Bitcoin to Three Tech Giants

Google stock debuted in its initial public offering (IPO) in 2004 at $85 per share. On January 3, about 11 years later, it was trading at $193. But after a stock split in 2022, the company issued 20 shares for every investor who owned them at the time. So adjusted to $3,860, Google's return on investment roughly 11 years from its IPO date is 4,541%.

Amazon's stock opened at $18 a share in 1997. On January 3, it was trading at $224, roughly 28 years later. But after four stock splits, IPO buyers with any remaining shares have 240 for every one they bought in 1997.

So adjusted to $53,760, Amazon's return on investment from its IPO is 298,666%. Bitcoin could give it 11 more years of growth and still completely wipe out those gains by comparison.

That's really remarkable, since Amazon's IPO stock is one of the best-performing stock market investments in history.

Facebook's stock opened at $38 a share in 2012. On January 3, they traded at $604. The company, now called Meta, has never split its shares.

That gives Facebook a 12-year ROI of 1,589%.

In 2014, at age 16, Google acquired London-based AI firm DeepMind Technologies.

Today, AI is one of the most important narratives in the crypto space, adjacent to Bitcoin. In late December, cryptocurrency tokens for AI agents showed 67% of days in a 30-day window. Some showed over 200% ROI.

In 2010, in its sixteenth year of business, Amazon completed the acquisition of Diapers.com and Soap.com for $545 million.

Bitcoin is not a corporation and cannot make acquisitions, but today, several corporations are starting to acquire BTC. These currently include Japan's Metaplanet and Virginia's MicroStrategy.

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