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    Home » Crypto News » If You Invested $1 Daily in Bitcoin For 9 Years, You Would Have $18M

    If You Invested $1 Daily in Bitcoin For 9 Years, You Would Have $18M

    Author: Felix Mollen

    Last Updated Nov 22, 2019 @ 12:52

    The dollar-cost averaging investment strategy seems to be one that has turned out to be particularly profitable when it comes to Bitcoin. Apparently, if you have been investing as little as $1 in BTC over the past 9 years, you would have received a return of upwards of $18 million. That’s more than a 550,000% return on your investment. 

    DCA Investing Pays Off With Bitcoin

    From day trading to long-term holding, there are plenty of strategies that people use to participate in the cryptocurrency market. However, as it turns out, one of the particularly stable and profitable ones is the dollar-cost averaging investment strategy. 

    This is a strategy which requires one to divide a purchase amount equally into small portions and buy Bitcoin at consistent intervals. A simple example would be to buy $1 worth of BTC every day, or every week, over a certain amount of time. 

    While $1 per day might sound like nothing, it’s important to remember that this is not a get-rich-quick type of investment scheme but rather a longer-term play. And, so far, it has proven to be particularly profitable. 

    If you had started buying $1 worth of Bitcoin on this day 9 years ago, you would have made a return of 550,450.63%. You would have invested a total of $3,286 and you would have made $18,091,093. 

    Bitcoin $1/Day DCA Investing. Source: dcabtc.com

    Of course, many would argue that the price of Bitcoin back then was particularly cheap because hardly anyone knew about it. So let’s have a look at a shorter time span. 

    Investing $1 per day starting 5 years ago would have made you $22,850 with an investment of as little as $1,826. That’s an ROI of 1,151.38%.

    If you started doing this 3 years ago, you would have made a total of $4,406 with an investment of $1,095, giving you an ROI of 302.43%. 

    What’s more, if you started using the DCA strategy with $1 per day one year ago, you would have made $580 with an investment of $365. That’s an ROI of 58.93%. 

    While it may not sound like a lot of money, keep in mind that we’re talking about an investment of as little as $1 per day. What’s important is the overall ROI. A 58.93% return on investment for a time frame as short as one year is a massive yield. It’s also worth noting that this requires absolutely no prior investment knowledge – all you have to do is put a certain amount of money into BTC at predetermined intervals. 

    What About Other Assets?

    Bitcoin is oftentimes compared to gold. In fact, just a few days ago, the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said that “Bitcoin is a store of value… like gold.”

    As such, it makes sense to take a look at what the DCA investment strategy would have netted you if you chose to invest in gold instead. Let’s look at the same time frames as above. 

    If you spent 9 years investing $1 in gold every single day, you would have invested a total of $3,286 and you would have made $3,341. That’s a return of 1.68%. Over five years, that return would have been 9.22%, for three years 6.41%, and for one year 6.93%. Obviously, these numbers are not even close to what investing in Bitcoin would have earned you. 

    Of course, the DCA strategy has its downfalls. For instance, profits are not maximized in a bull market. Also, it could be challenging to discipline yourself to buy a fixed amount of BTC, especially if the price is low and you feel tempted to buy more, or if the price is high and you desire less.

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    Felix Mollen
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    Felix got into Bitcoin back in 2014, but his interest quickly expanded to everything blockchain-related. He's particularly excited about real-world applications of blockchain technology. Having worked as a professional content writer for three years before that, Felix transitioned to working on blockchain-centered projects and hasn't looked back ever since.

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