💸🚀 Earning $290M with a $27 investment is easy. You just need to be Christopher Koch, a man who made a fortune by investing in BTC. Read more 🧵

Norwegian student Christopher Koch learned about Bitcoin while working on his dissertation about encryption. To gain practical knowledge, he bought about $27 worth of BTC in 2009. Bitcoin had only been mentioned the year before, in response to the global financial crisis.

The $27 Koch spent was enough for 5,000 tokens. When he told his girlfriend, she wasn't thrilled and thought it was a waste of money. "She thought I was wasting money on nonsense," the Norwegian recalls.

After successfully defending his thesis, Koch moved on with his life, focusing on finding a job and household chores. He forgot about the bitcoins since they weren't profitable at the time.

Eventually, the value of those 5,000 bitcoins soared to 5 million kroner (about $885,000). Despite having completed his doctoral studies, Koch didn't sell all his bitcoins at once and retained his millionaire status. He withdrew 1.1 million kroner to buy an apartment, leaving the rest of his assets invested.

Koch checked his account daily, watching it grow by 50,000 kroner each day. "Every day I logged into the online bank and saw that the account had grown. Plus 50,000 kroner, plus 50,000 kroner again," laughs the Norwegian. "Even in my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined that they would soar like this."