Month and Year Returns - WOW 5,865.98% 1 -year return! 268,568% 3-year return!

[contactluis]

Returns are calculated using only Mt. Gox closing price.  Volume is for Mt. Gox only.

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There is no better way to promote Bitcoins then returns. The Dow Jones industrial average finished the year up 26.5% and the S&P 500 gained 32.39% compared to 16.07% average daily return for Bitcoin.  The 3-year average return for Bitcoin is 89,523% (268,568% total return). I don't know of an investment that has ever produced returns like this. Wall Street has to take notice.

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Note the currency volume for December 2013, when combined with BTC China, BitStamp and BTC-E, it's over the equivalent of 3.5 billion dollars that were exchanged in one month. While that is a huge amount of money being exchanged and a record for Bitcoin, keep in mind that $2 billion per day on average is traded in shares of Google.   

[empoweoqwj]

Wait until the big US investment firms like Fortress start up their ETFs. Current returns will look like peanuts !!!!!!!!

[exstasie]

Always great to see it put into numbers like that!  Keep holding and see where it goes in 2014!  I'd be fine with another 5000% return

[aneki]

Great and informative post, thank you for getting it done.

[blo8i]

this is a great way to show the growth. looking forward for 2014. 

[pietje]

Nice to see this.
Promises big things for the future.

[Skaterdiejosh]

So lets say 2014 is another huge year for bitcoin !! If this does happen and we have gains like we have seen last couple years bitcoin price would be over 4000$ per bitcoin by jan 1st 2015 ??  Look at oct 13 then Nov 13 lol insane !!! 211$ at Oct 1200$ at Nov, seems hard to believe that we would ever see growth like that again???

[BitchicksHusband]

So lets say 2014 is another huge year for bitcoin !! If this does happen and we have gains like we have seen last couple years bitcoin price would be over 4000$ per bitcoin by jan 1st 2015 ??  Look at oct 13 then Nov 13 lol insane !!! 211$ at Oct 1200$ at Nov, seems hard to believe that we would ever see growth like that again???

No, more like 10× so at least $7500.

[empoweoqwj]

So lets say 2014 is another huge year for bitcoin !! If this does happen and we have gains like we have seen last couple years bitcoin price would be over 4000$ per bitcoin by jan 1st 2015 ??  Look at oct 13 then Nov 13 lol insane !!! 211$ at Oct 1200$ at Nov, seems hard to believe that we would ever see growth like that again???

Its entirely possible. Once lots of Americans can invest in bitcoins via ETFs, there will be hundreds of millions of US$ entering the market, and only so many bitcoins to buy

[Lewis2]

Still, don't be too fast to expect continued growth like this. To double the value of bitcoin at this moment you have to double the market cap which is currently over $10,000,000.-. Good luck with that.

[empoweoqwj]

Still, don't be too fast to expect continued growth like this. To double the value of bitcoin at this moment you have to double the market cap which is currently over $10,000,000.-. Good luck with that.

Nope. Only a small fraction of coins are on sale at one time. Someone buying bitcoins doesn't have to pay all bitcoin owners

[MyLuckyMichelle]

I believe bitcoin will be 10,000$ until the end of 2014, what do you think?

[empoweoqwj]

$5000 to $10,000 by end of 2014.

[Dafar]

$5000 to $10,000 by end of 2014.

This. If bitcoin is not at LEAST $5000-$10,000 usd by the end of this year then botcoin has failed as far as i'm concerned. And you all have failed me too

[Peacefrog]

So lets say 2014 is another huge year for bitcoin !! If this does happen and we have gains like we have seen last couple years bitcoin price would be over 4000$ per bitcoin by jan 1st 2015 ??  Look at oct 13 then Nov 13 lol insane !!! 211$ at Oct 1200$ at Nov, seems hard to believe that we would ever see growth like that again???

Its entirely possible. Once lots of Americans can invest in bitcoins via ETFs, there will be hundreds of millions of US$ entering the market, and only so many bitcoins to buy

Sorry im a little behind but what are you talking about when you say ETFs?

[empoweoqwj]

So lets say 2014 is another huge year for bitcoin !! If this does happen and we have gains like we have seen last couple years bitcoin price would be over 4000$ per bitcoin by jan 1st 2015 ??  Look at oct 13 then Nov 13 lol insane !!! 211$ at Oct 1200$ at Nov, seems hard to believe that we would ever see growth like that again???

Its entirely possible. Once lots of Americans can invest in bitcoins via ETFs, there will be hundreds of millions of US$ entering the market, and only so many bitcoins to buy

Sorry im a little behind but what are you talking about when you say ETFs?

Exchange-traded fund - google it for further details

[MyLuckyMichelle]

Looks Great 

[cdog]

Still, don't be too fast to expect continued growth like this. To double the value of bitcoin at this moment you have to double the market cap which is currently over $10,000,000.-. Good luck with that.

You are talking about economies that are worth trillions of dollars. Ten billion is nothing.

Talk to me about the difficulty of the market cap doubling when it gets to one trillion.

[Dafar]

Still, don't be too fast to expect continued growth like this. To double the value of bitcoin at this moment you have to double the market cap which is currently over $10,000,000.-. Good luck with that.

You are talking about economies that are worth trillions of dollars. Ten billion is nothing.

Talk to me about the difficulty of the market cap doubling when it gets to one trillion.

I agree with this statement. $10 billion for as a global market cap is pretty damn low

[empoweoqwj]

Still, don't be too fast to expect continued growth like this. To double the value of bitcoin at this moment you have to double the market cap which is currently over $10,000,000.-. Good luck with that.

You are talking about economies that are worth trillions of dollars. Ten billion is nothing.

Talk to me about the difficulty of the market cap doubling when it gets to one trillion.

And his original statement about "doubling the value of bitcoin" is still nonsense. To double the market cap, you just have to have people buying bitcoins today for $2000 instead of $1000. Then "magically" the market cap doubles to 20 billion.