{"id":35228,"date":"2025-07-04T13:31:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35228"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:31:35","slug":"this-bitcoin-collector-turned-500-into-over-10-million-by-selling-100-physical-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35228","title":{"rendered":"This Bitcoin Collector Turned $500 Into Over $10 Million By Selling 100 &#8216;Physical&#8217; Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A long-time <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) enthusiast using the alias JohnGalt in May <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcointalk.org\/index.php?topic=5543336.0\">shared<\/a> an incredible story on the Bitcoin Forum: they finally redeemed their 100 \u2018physical Bitcoin\u2019 bar \u2014 which had remained untouched since 2012 \u2014 for a profit of over $10 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> Originally bought for just $500, the physical BTC bar, one of the rare 100 BTC versions with a private key  engraved on the bar, grew in value exponentially over the years. <\/p>\n<p>As Bitcoin rallied past key milestones like $10,000 and later $100,000, JohnGalt admitted to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46260174\/this-bitcoin-collector-turned-500-into-over-10-million-by-selling-100-physical-bitcoin\" alt=\"This\" bitcoin collector turned into over million by selling>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-time Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) enthusiast using the alias JohnGalt in May shared an incredible story on the Bitcoin Forum: they finally redeemed their 100 \u2018physical Bitcoin\u2019 bar \u2014 which had remained untouched since 2012 \u2014 for a profit of over $10 million. What Happened: Originally bought for just $500, the physical BTC bar, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-35228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}