Gold has gone up 6% total in 10 years, Bitcoin has gone up 100,000% in 10 years.

10 years ago today Gold was at around $1,650 an ounce, Bitcoin was at $4.87, and Ethereum was almost 4 years away from existing. Crypto currencies have yielded crazy returns over the past 5-10 years and are still extremely new and small compared to "traditional investments".

Today Bitcoin is over $40k, is accepted as legitimate currency at vendors all over the world and has introduced decentralized finance and blockchain technology which is revolutionizing the world. Crypto currency investments are still seen as "extremely risky", yet, if you go buy gold or a gold ETF right now you would be seen as a savvy investor who is hedging likely rising inflation and will probably see another 1% return per year. In my opinion an investment that has the chance to basically go sideways for 10 years is actually extremely risky. That's an enormous amount of lost potential gains and it's very risky to put your money into something like that. Far less risky would be an investment that is being adopted all over the world and has a 5x smaller market cap with real technology behind it.

The entire crypto market still has less than 20% of the market cap of gold, less than 3% of the market cap of the global stock market, and less than 2% of the market cap of the global bond market. This space is still extremely new and there are massive returns to be had.