The Proof
For years, yet more-so this year, I have been digitally assailed for uttering the following premise:
With all the so-called “road to riches” hoopla surrounding Bitcoin™, unless you were one of the few that took a chance and bought it when it took multiple coins just to buy a pizza, then, sold it at the first hype stage of 2021, basically, there is nothing it has done ever since that can’t be reproduced in a boring stock such as Apple™ or others.” Period, full stop.
For the doubters and the so-called “Bitcoin faithful” here’s the proof to that argument in real time. To wit:
Bitcoin’s performance metrics over the past 12 months, down to yesterday (Saturday) as of ~9:00am ET…

Here is Apple’s as of the close on Friday…

There’s no cherry picking, no apples for oranges comparisons – nothing. If you put one dollar into Bitcoin and one into Apple at the same time 12 months ago – at every interval – your purchase of a plain vanilla stock increased – with Bitcoin you lost at every interval.
Compare that to all the hype the crypto space has enjoyed over the past 6 to 10 months to the actual results.
I rest my case.
© 2025 Mark St. Cyr
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