Let's start with $100:
Now on May 15, 2012 the price of Bitcoin was $5. This was one of the last days the the Bitcoin price was at this level:
Our $100 is now 20 Bitcoin.
On June 17, 2013 MegaCoin opened on Cryptsy for 0.00001250 MEC/BTC. Our 20 Bitcoin would then be 1600000 MEC.
Then on November 25, 2013 the highest selling price of MEC was 0.00238000
This 1600000 MEC converted back to BTC would then bring us to: 3808 BTC
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/45
Now if that 3808 BTC was sold on BitStamp on December 4, 2013 at a price of $1100 USD/BTC that would leave us with:
$4,188,800Now let's visualize that same $100 from the beginning, again as $4M:
It's crazy what the crypto world is capable of