WOW! It took bitcoin just three minutes to jump $1,000 – and other figures

One bitcoin is presently valued at just under $16,600. Who knows? Perhaps that will change within the next several seconds.

Thursday turned out to be a whirlwind day for the peer-to-peer decentralized virtual currency. It soared to $19,000 in a matter of minutes, before crashing to $16,000 in the same length of time.

Bitcoin is up 1,500 percent year-to-date. But just how much has bitcoin really surged since being priced at a few cents when it was first created?

Former Reagan budget director David Stockman of Contra Corner put together a great list, highlighting the amount of time it took to climb a $1,000. It’s truly remarkable.

Here are the numbers:

$0000 – $1000: 1789 days
$1000- $2000: 1271 days
$2000- $3000: 23 days
$3000- $4000: 62 days
$4000- $5000: 61 days
$5000- $6000: 8 days
$6000- $7000: 13 days
$7000- $8000: 14 days
$8000- $9000: 9 days
$9000-$10000: 2 days
$10000-$11000: 1 day
$11000-$12000: 6 days
$12,000-$13,000: 17 hours
$13,000-$14,000: 4 hours
$14,000-$15,000: 10 hours
$15,000-$16,000: 5 hours
$16,000-$17,000: 2 hours
$17,000-$18,000: 10 minutes
$18,000-$19,000: 3 minutes

Wowza!