Early BTC buyer cashes out $10M from 2012 gold bar
Bitcointalk user JohnGalt bought a Casascius gold Bitcoin bar in 2012 for $500, containing 100 BTC.
On May 13, 2025, he finally peeled it and moved the coins — now worth over $10 million.
“Holding something that valuable was stressful. I didn’t want to spend it, but at $10M, I knew I couldn’t sit on it forever.”