Oct 5, 2009: First ever $BTC exchange rate drops

New Liberty Standard pegged 1 USD = 1,309.03 $BTC based purely on electricity costs to mine with a standard CPU.

That's $0.0007 per coin.

If you mined 100 $BTC that day and held? You'd be sitting on $6.9M today.

The OGs who understood energy = money won. The rest called it a scam.