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If You Put $500 a Month Into Bitcoin and Gold Since 2020, You’d Have This Much Today

Investing does not always require finding the perfect bottom or predicting the next market crash. Sometimes, consistently putting aside the same amount of money can produce surprisingly large results.

A comparison circulating among investors shows what would have happened if someone had invested $500 every month since 2020 across Bitcoin, gold, silver and major U.S. stock indexes.

With approximately $40,000 contributed over the period, the estimated portfolio values today would look like this:

• Bitcoin: $108,100
• Silver: $100,200
• Gold: $82,400
• Nasdaq: $79,200
• S&P 500: $71,100

Bitcoin comes out on top, turning the roughly $40,000 of contributions into more than $108,000. That is about $68,000 above the amount originally invested.

Gold would have produced a considerably smaller (but still substantial) result of approximately $82,400, more than doubling the investor’s contributions.

Perhaps the biggest surprise is silver. At roughly $100,200, the metal comes surprisingly close to Bitcoin in this particular comparison and finishes comfortably ahead of gold and both stock indexes.