And to the present, nearly a decade after its birth, the scale of bitcoin has grown a lot. With prices rising from nearly zero when it first emerged to the $ 5,000 peak on Sept. 1, a smart enough person or lucky enough to drop $ 1,000 to buy bitcoin in July 2010 (when the price was $ 0.05). USD 1 bitcoin), he will now have nearly $ 100 million. Total market value of bitcoin reached 65 billion USD.