The first time real-world transaction using Bitcoin was done to purch ase two large, Papa John’s pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. As of August 2017, that amount is now worth $27 million.  If you had inve sted $100 in Bitc oin in 2010, you’d be worth $72 million now. Since it was founded in 200 9, the value of bitcoins has increased exponentially. Today a single bitcoin is wo rth   aro und $2,782. Had you bought $100 of bitcoins in 2010 at the 0.003 percent price, you w ould have $72.9 million as of May 2017. In an intere sting incident, while writing a thesis on encryption a Norwegian student, Kristoffer Koch, invested 150 k roner ($26.60) in 5,000 bitcoins in 2009. He soon forgot about his inve stment until Bitcoin became a widely covered topic on the media in April 2013. When he checked his wallet, he found his 5,000 bitcoins and, at the time of his rediscovery, they were wo r th 5 million kronor ($886,000). starting at year 2017 price of bitcoin is 1,000$ but