Would they have bought BTC back in 2011 for a few cents per coin if they knew that almost a decade later it would worth $10K+ each?

Nah they still would have sold out at like $1 :D
People are fickle.

1 million HIVE Power = ~ 17 BTC.

Ah see now this is where it gets interesting, because if you pumped even 1 BTC into Bittrex right now the price of Hive would rise 20%. That's how crazy our liquidity is. That's exactly why Sun would have never been able to attack us if he actually had to buy the coins off the open market.

I'd take the 1M Hive just because it's so hard to actually get 1M Hive :D
17 BTC is easy to acquire.