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Which one actually won?

Put the same money into Bitcoin, Apple and S&P 500 in the same year and watch them pull apart. Same start, same amount — the only difference is what you picked. Add or swap assets, change the year, and find the winner.

$1,000 since 2015

Bitcoin comes out ahead

20152026
  1. 1
    Bitcoin150× · 61.7%/yr
    $149,611
  2. 2
    Apple11.1× · 25.9%/yr
    $11,061
  3. 3
    S&P 5003.64× · 13.2%/yr
    $3,638

Same $1,000, same 2015 start — Bitcoin, Apple and S&P 500 land worlds apart. From $1,000 invested, the gap between first and last is $145,973.

A side-by-side what-if is the fairest way to see the cost of a guess. The same dollars, committed on the same day, end up worlds apart depending only on what you bought — that gap is the whole story of picking winners versus owning the market. Switch to a bit each year to see how steady buying narrows (or widens) the spread, then open any asset on its own to go deeper.

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