TL;DR: You may not have missed the train yet

The thought that most comes to the mind of new people entering the crypto space is "I must have missed the train".

This is one of the reasons people buy crap, because they want to catch the "next Bitcoin"(Do me a favor and stick to the original Bitcoin)

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But did people really miss the train?

Let's try to find out.

For the purpose of the post, we will take the top 10 from 2020 and calculate how much $100 investment at the beginning of each year would be worth today.

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2020

• Bitcoin (BTC) - price on 5/1/2020 - $7,411A $100 investment would be worth today $393
• Ethereum (ETH) - price on 5/1/2020 - $136A $100 investment would be worth today $1,347
• Ripple (XRP) - price on 5/1/2020 - $0.1955A $100 investment would be worth today $332
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) - price on 5/1/2020 - $224A $100 investment would be worth today $101
• Litecoin (LTC) - price on 5/1/2020 - $43.50A $100 investment would be worth today $191
• EOS (EOS) - price on 5/1/2020 - $2.70A $100 investment would be worth today $27
• Binance Coin (BNB) - price on 5/1/2020 - $14A $100 investment would be worth today $1,721
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) - price on 5/1/2020 - $111A $100 investment would be worth today $33
• Monero (XMR) - price on 5/1/2020 - $54A $100 investment would be worth today $298

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2021

• Bitcoin (BTC) - price on 3/1/2021 - $32,780A $100 investment would be worth today $88
• Ethereum (ETH) - price on 3/1/2021 - $975A $100 investment would be worth today $188
• Litecoin (LTC) - price on 3/1/2021 - $160A $100 investment would be worth today $52
• Ripple (XRP) - price on 3/1/2021 - $0.226A $100 investment would be worth today $288
• Polkadot (DOT) - price on 3/1/2021 - $10A $100 investment would be worth today $50
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) - price on 3/1/2021 - $421A $100 investment would be worth today $54
• Cardano (ADA) - price on 3/1/2021 - $0.205A $100 investment would be worth today $141
• Binance Coin (BNB) - price on 3/1/2021 - $41A $100 investment would be worth today $587
• Chainlink (LINK) - price on 3/1/2021 - $13.65A $100 investment would be worth today $52

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2022

• Bitcoin (BTC) - price on 2/1/2022 - $47,345A $100 investment would be worth today $62
• Ethereum (ETH) - price on 2/1/2022 - $3,829A $100 investment would be worth today $48
• Binance Coin (BNB) - price on 2/1/2022 - $531A $100 investment would be worth today $45
• Solana (SOL) - price on 2/1/2022 - $176A $100 investment would be worth today $13
• Cardano (ADA) - price on 2/1/2022 - $1.37A $100 investment would be worth today $21
• Ripple (XRP) - price on 2/1/2022 - $0.86A $100 investment would be worth today $76
• Terra (LUNA) - price on 2/1/2022 - $89A $100 investment would be worth today $0.006
• Polkadot (DOT) - price on 2/1/2022 - $30A $100 investment would be worth today $17

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2023

• Bitcoin (BTC) - price on 1/1/2023 - $16,625A $100 investment would be worth today $175
• Ethereum (ETH) - price on 1/1/2023 - $1,201A $100 investment would be worth today $152
• Binance Coin (BNB) - price on 1/1/2023 - $244A $100 investment would be worth today $99
• Ripple (XRP) - price on 1/1/2023 - $0.34A $100 investment would be worth today $191
• Dogecoin (DOGE) - price on 1/1/2023 - $0.07A $100 investment would be worth today $105
• Cardano (ADA) - price on 1/1/2023 - $0.25A $100 investment would be worth today $116
• Polygon (MATIC) - price on 1/1/2023 - $0.76A $100 investment would be worth today $88

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What are your thoughts, do you still think this is not a good time to invest?