Would it have been possible to buy 1000 usd of bitcoin in 2010 or earlier? If not then how to acquire this amount or more?
May 22, 2010 two pizzas (A value of about $40) were exchanged for 10,000 BTC.
At that exchange rate, $1000 of BTC would be 250,000 BTC.
At that time, there were about 2,852,150 BTC in existence.
So, acquiring 250,000 BTC would mean acquiring about 8.8% of all existing bitcoins.
Could it be done? I didn't know about Bitcoin yet in 2010, so someone else would probably be better able to answer. My guess is: Maybe. Probably not all in a single purchase though. You'd probably have to complete transactions with many individual. But to create such a large sudden demand would probably have driven the price up pretty quickly. In the end you'd probably have ended up with a lot less than 250,000 BTC as each individual purchase would significantly reduce the pool of bitcoins available for purchase and result in a higher price for the next purchase.