After Nakamoto rolled out Bitcoin in 2009, he at bing mined about 1.1 million Bitcoins and disappeared in 2010. He ceded the responsibility of development to Gavin Andresen, formerly known as Gavin Bell, who worked to see Bitcoin's decentralized vision realized. This meant that there was no central authority, server, storage or administrator. All the parties were peer-to-peer and the blockchain was distributed to all. The network existed merely to legitimize and confirm the transactions. The price of Bitcoin dropped with the new uncertainty surrounding these actions. If you’d taken a chance on Bitcoin in the past (and held on to it), you’d undoubtedly be pretty happy today. Here’s a look at what a token $100 investment in Bitcoin would be worth as of midmorning Monday, when the value of a Bitcoin, per Coindesk, is $43,741.59.