Hindsight In 2020: Bitcoin Brings Investors 16x Returns Over The S&P 500

Hindsight In 2020: Bitcoin Brings Investors 16x Returns Over The S&P 500

Bitcoin has for several months now, captured the crown for 2020 as the most profitable mainstream asset of the year. Whatever the reason is behind the unstoppable momentum, the recent divergence between crypto and stocks, and even precious metals, has the leading cryptocurrency by market cap reaching over 16x times the return of the S&P […]


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