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How much would you have today if you had invested in Bitcoin, a corporate BTC treasury company, a miner, a Bitcoin ETF, gold or an index like the S&P 500? Adjust the amount, the start date, the end date and the mode (lump sum or monthly DCA) to compare scenarios. Every combination generates a unique link you can save or share.
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Approximate monthly prices in USD sourced from public data (Yahoo Finance and CoinGecko). MSTR is adjusted for the 10:1 split of August 8, 2024. Metaplanet only includes data from April 2024, when it pivoted to a BTC treasury. IBIT since its launch in January 2024.
In DCA mode, CAGR is computed as a proxy over the total contributed; the precise calculation for periodic contributions is the IRR (XIRR), which will always be lower than this proxy.
This tool is strictly educational and does not constitute financial advice. Past results do not guarantee future returns.
Reference scenario: $1,000 since January 2020
With $1,000.00 invested from Jan 2020 to Jun 2026, the side-by-side results are: Bitcoin → $7,016.72 (+602%, CAGR +35.5%); Strategy (MSTR) → $8,078.01 (+708%, CAGR +38.5%); S&P 500 (SPY) → $2,551.98 (+155%, CAGR +15.7%).
Adjust the amount, the start date, the mode (Lump sum / DCA) and the assets above to recreate any scenario and share it via URL.
Frequently asked questions
- How much would $1,000 invested in Bitcoin in January 2020 be worth?
- $7,016.72 as of Jun 2026, a total return of +602% and an annualized CAGR of +35.5%. Over that window, the worst drawdown was -73.0%.
- Has Strategy (MSTR) outperformed Bitcoin since 2020?
- Investing $1,000 in MSTR in January 2020 would have produced $8,078.01 as of Jun 2026 (+708%), versus $7,016.72 in Bitcoin (+602%). Measuring from August 2020 — when Saylor made the first institutional purchase —, MSTR returned +750% versus +462% for BTC.
- How has the S&P 500 performed against Bitcoin since 2020?
- $1,000 in the S&P 500 (SPY) in January 2020 would be worth $2,551.98 as of Jun 2026 (+155%, CAGR +15.7%). Bitcoin over the same window: $7,016.72 (+602%, CAGR +35.5%).
- What if I had dollar-cost averaged $100 a month into Bitcoin since January 2020?
- Contributing $100 every month since January 2020 (total contributed: $7,800.00), the final value as of Jun 2026 would be $17,682.52, a total return of +127% on the capital contributed.
- What would buying Bitcoin at the November 2021 top have looked like?
- $1,000 invested in BTC at the November 2021 close (~$57,000, one month after that cycle's intraday ATH of $69,000) would be worth $1,150.94 as of Jun 2026 (+15.1%). Along the way, the maximum drawdown from that date reached -71.0%.
- How has the IBIT ETF performed against Bitcoin since its January 2024 launch?
- $1,000 in IBIT at the launch of the spot ETFs (January 2024) would be worth $1,529.63 as of Jun 2026 (+53.0%). Over the same window, holding Bitcoin directly returned +54.1%. The gap reflects the ETF's fees and small tracking differences.
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