Back in 2013, my friend Jake was obsessed with technology and stumbled upon this new concept called Bitcoin. Skeptical but curious, he decided to invest $100, which got him about 10 Bitcoins at the time. Over the years, life got busy and he forgot about his little crypto experiment. Fast forward to 2017, during a holiday gathering, someone brought up the meteoric rise of Bitcoin. Jake’s eyes widened as he remembered his long-forgotten investment. He rushed home, dug up his old laptop, and after a nail-biting hour of trying to remember his password, he finally accessed his wallet. To his astonishment, his $100 investment had skyrocketed to nearly $200,000! That holiday season, Jake treated his family to a vacation they’d never forget, all thanks to the serendipitous power of cryptocurrencies.