17 years later: those 10 BTC from the first transaction are worth ~$917,000 USD

Today, January 12, 2026, marks exactly 17 years since the first real Bitcoin transaction: on January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney. Back then, they were literally worth $0.

Today, with BTC hovering around $91,700 USD (according to data from CoinDesk, Yahoo Finance, and major exchanges), those 10 bitcoins are equivalent to approximately $917,000.

From zero to nearly a million in less than two decades, without banks or anyone's permission.

The cypherpunk experiment that changed the financial world continues to prove: the future of money is already here

And it's still going up!