Crypto is the World’s Best Performing Asset Class

[JessicaVL]

As we reach what has possibly been one of the most tumultuous decades in recent history, cryptocurrencies have once again outperformed other asset classes. Although trading down from the highs of December 2017, the top cryptocurrencies by market cap have had a pretty spectacular year. Crypto is the world’s best performing asset class, and it’s about time investors stood up and took notice.

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Cryptocurrencies vs mainstream asset classes

Since bursting onto the scene with Bitcoin in 2008, digital assets have become a flourishing asset class of their own right. In 2019, they’ve cemented themselves as the world’s leading asset class, rising high above returns for commodities, bond markets and equities.  According to Ryan Alfred, the President and co-founder of Digital Assets Data, the top digital assets saw much higher returns than traditional asset classes in 2019. “Looking back at the performance of the top ten large-caps (Bitwise 10) in comparison to other major asset classes, we can see their special signature,” he said.

According to research from Digital Assets Data, we can see how the top 10 digital assets performed compared to other asset classes like gold, oil, and equities.  To be fair, things were looking a little dismal for cryptocurrency at the beginning of the year. Sentiment began to pick up in March, but cryptoassets started the year well below other asset classes in terms of ROI. However, as of now, cryptocurrencies are far ahead of their traditional counterparts, with much of the credit owed to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is up 98% since the beginning of 2019, which is quite remarkable given the rocky start to the year. Ether is up 35% and BNB is up a whopping 150%.

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A marker of cryptocurrency’s success 

As 2019 comes to an end, we can finally close the chapter on this tumultuous decade. Still, the 2010s have brought us something pretty remarkable: the rise of the cryptocurrency industry. In 2008, just two years before the start of the decade, we were in the throes of a global financial crisis. This continued into 2009, and saw the advent of Bitcoin – the very first cryptocurrency and a decentralized response to the recession. Since then, the economy has made a pretty solid recovery. The S&P have gained 369% since March 2009, and Dow Jones Industrial Average is up by 326% in the same period. However, Bitcoin has utterly destroyed those figures – rising by more than 12 million percent over the last 9 years (one year less than the traditional assets). That’s unprecedented. 

What lead to the success of cryptoassets?

Crypto is the world’s best performing asset class, and that can be attributed to a number of different factors. High volatility and liquidity allow crypto holders to trade between digital and fiat currencies easily, and quick cross border payments have filled a gap in the market. 

Lorenzo Pellegrino, CEO of Skrill, said that crypto assets resemble a nascent market. “As it (crypto) matures we should start to see increased stability and the core fundamentals will become more apparent,” he said.

As we move into a new decade, it’s likely that we’ll see even more incredible growth in the cryptoasset industry. 2019 alone has been one phenomenal year for the asset class, and now’s the time to get into the market (if you haven’t already). Consider trading cryptoassets on exchanges or social trading platforms like eToro, and make the best investment of your life.


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Cryptoassets vs the world

Crypto is the world’s best performing asset class – there’s no getting around that. In the last decade, Bitcoin alone has seen growth of a staggering 12 million percent. Compared to traditional asset classes, that’s absolutely phenomenal. Cryptocurrencies are volatile, but that means your ROI can be even higher. If you’re not investing in crypto, you’re not seeing the bigger picture. Particularly with the next Bitcoin halving in May 2020 (which historically has always signalled a bull run), we’re gearing up for some pretty big moves in the first couple of years of this new decade. Here’s to the 2020s, may they bring further cryptoasset glory to us.

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[Captain Corporate]

 We will surely see this trend continue in the following years as well because the worst looks to be behind us for now but do not forget if we get to newer highs one day that means there is another chance to fall even harder. Maybe in 2019 we were doing so well and so great but has anyone checked how we did in 2018 for example? People lost so much money during 2018 that the fact of 2019 being so good didn't really excited too many people. We may have gone from 3.5k to 7k levels and in between even see 14k levels yet we can't forget how we dropped from 20k to 3k as well, thats still engraved in our brains. Hopefully we will do better from now on and get some more interest but while we are living highs, we can't forget the lows behind us as well.

[Darooghe]

Actually, if we have another recession in 2020 or 2021, I think cryptocurrencies might go up a lot. not because the so-called mythical creature 'institutional investor' but because people from third world countries would try as hard as they can to move their money to outside their failing local banking system. and their best chance is with cryptocurrency.

[James1970]

and the worlds risky asset class. people should assume this

[drlukacs]

According to research from Digital Assets Data, we can see how the top 10 digital assets performed compared to other asset classes like gold, oil, and equities.  To be fair, things were looking a little dismal for cryptocurrency at the beginning of the year. Sentiment began to pick up in March, but cryptoassets started the year well below other asset classes in terms of ROI. However, as of now, cryptocurrencies are far ahead of their traditional counterparts, with much of the credit owed to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is up 98% since the beginning of 2019, which is quite remarkable given the rocky start to the year. Ether is up 35% and BNB is up a whopping 150%.

yes, we have seen coins like bitcoin, eth, ltc, bnb grow very strongly every year, it's completely different from other asset classes. But we should know that it is an organization and always works to grow, we should compare it to technology businesses. Except for bitcoin, it is the type of asset being manipulated and investing in it also has a lot of risks.
I don't differentiate crypto and don't lower it, I just see it should be compared to tech businesses because it's also platform development organizations. And compared to last year, it seems our altcoins were not as good as the leading technology businesses in the US. Apple alone has grown more than 100% since the beginning of 2019, Google and Facebook have grown equally.
My message here is that I hope people don't get too fomo into crypto and don't try to turn it into something too big. be fair, and look realistically.

[sazonk]

Indeed like that Crypto is an asset in terms of growth since its birth experienced an increase every year, and the graph is uphill, this means that internet users who know and use crypto are also increasing. Some countries have also adopted technology used in crypto to be applied to the economic and financial system in their countries.
Health services, trade, and even porn sites now rely on crypto as a solution for their progress. As long as the Internet is functioning and in my life, I think that the progress of this crypto will continue to increase, because indeed now the era is completely virtual, people no longer need something that makes them ordain a long time, and it is all answered with crypto.

[Wh00re]

With cryptocurrencies expanding, the need for decentralization becomes bigger and bigger by the day.

It's dangerous to trade on centralized exchanges, as we've seen countless exchange hacks as of the past few years, so it wouldn't surprise me if DEX's gets used more and more going forward.
The most decentralized DEX out there is without a doubt Blocknet's DX. https://blockdx.com/

What most people fail to realize is that the team behind BLOCK also works on decentralized oracles, which is the reason why the coin itself moved 100+ rankings the past week, and surged by over 100% in price, with a ton of room to grow still.

There are tons of projects out there, which will do amazingly well, the marketcap of crypto itself isn't as large as most people think it is. 

[CarnagexD]

Indeed like that Crypto is an asset in terms of growth since its birth experienced an increase every year, and the graph is uphill, this means that internet users who know and use crypto are also increasing. Some countries have also adopted technology used in crypto to be applied to the economic and financial system in their countries.
Health services, trade, and even porn sites now rely on crypto as a solution for their progress. As long as the Internet is functioning and in my life, I think that the progress of this crypto will continue to increase, because indeed now the era is completely virtual, people no longer need something that makes them ordain a long time, and it is all answered with crypto.

It's the fastest growing asset there is on the market which is not surprising considering the amount of support and development there is in the cryptocurrency market. Money's also quite faster to appreciate in cryptocurrencies compared to other forms of asset which basically makes people come in more. Really hoping this uptrend continues so more and more people could see past cryptocurrencies' profitability and appreciate the benefits it provides besides incentives.

[bitzizzix]

The growth of cryptocurrency is slowly making everyone aware that cryptocurrency is the best asset or investment in the world, and has shown excellent performance and made everyone interested to be involved in it.
and if 2017 can be repeated, it looks like there will be more and more new people who want to adopt or engage with cryptocurrency as their assets or investments.

[ecnalubma]

Crypto are the best alternative investment aside from metal assets and stocks which takes a lot of time and years before you achieve ROI. Its still early days crypto, so getting involve early as possible is the best option to harvest the benefits.

[mu_enrico]

Well, it depends on the year in the discussion. People can be cherry-picking any year that was a good year for crypto and ignoring the rest. Don't also forget that crypto is only here for about 10-11 years so that anything can happen in the future.

If all of the variables are somewhat constant, probably crypto could be the "real" world's best-performing asset.

[NathanJB]

Well, it depends on the year in the discussion. People can be cherry-picking any year that was a good year for crypto and ignoring the rest. Don't also forget that crypto is only here for about 10-11 years so that anything can happen in the future.

If all of the variables are somewhat constant, probably crypto could be the "real" world's best-performing asset.

Most of the time we only see and hear what we want to see and hear. And I have seen this among Bitcoin enthusiasts and the articles and videos they have written. They are really into cherry-picking just to come up with something that feeds whatever they believe in albeit very bias and subjective. Let us all be objective.

Crypto is really one of the best performing assets worldwide. But the best? I am not sure. Asset? It should not even be classified as such.

[biddicoin]

Crypto are the best alternative investment aside from metal assets and stocks which takes a lot of time and years before you achieve ROI. Its still early days crypto, so getting involve early as possible is the best option to harvest the benefits.

yes, it is. unregulated is the reason why crypto has high volatility compared with others class asset
but we must realize that crypto has high risk too. most of them is a thin air asset

we have to be careful before investing in cryto, set tight stop loss is a must here

[ntsdm1]

Cryptoassets vs the world

Crypto is the world’s best performing asset class – there’s no getting around that. In the last decade, Bitcoin alone has seen growth of a staggering 12 million percent. Compared to traditional asset classes, that’s absolutely phenomenal. Cryptocurrencies are volatile, but that means your ROI can be even higher. If you’re not investing in crypto, you’re not seeing the bigger picture. Particularly with the next Bitcoin halving in May 2020 (which historically has always signalled a bull run), we’re gearing up for some pretty big moves in the first couple of years of this new decade. Here’s to the 2020s, may they bring further cryptoasset glory to us.

I do not think that the reduction of remuneration for the extracted bitcoin will affect its price.

[bttmember]

No doubt crypto is the best asset class and also keep in mind that last almost 2 years were mostly of downtrend and accumulation, just imagine the performance when we are at the peak of the next big bull run and this time around not only big institutions are getting on board but many governments around the world are also looking to hedge national holdings in crypto so it can help the national exchequer from the massive gains expected soon.

[leowonderful]

A lot of people also still surprisingly use extremely high amounts of leverage trading altcoins, and it seems to only be getting more and more popular over time to me as leveraged trading sites like Bitmex continue growing in volume even in the bear market we're still in at the moment. If you're only trading or holding a small amount of coin not on leverage, the risks of crypto can be very manageable, but it's imperative that you don't stack risk on top of risk when crypto's already as volatile as it is, and as much as I'd like to think this won't happen, we might never reach the heights of 2017 again. Always plan for the worst, and have plans in place to cut your losses for when things do head south.

[hello_good_sir]

All this talk is quite futile.

We know what crypto's performance has been the past few years/decade but that is entirely justified, as known by all rational investors. It's not hard to have gains in the thousands of percentage points regularly when BTC started out with a very small market cap and very good fundamentals to which the price was obviously undervalued to.

These sort of astronomical gains are improbable to follow past trends due to the maturity of the market now. Anyhow, it is much more productive to focus on improving bitcoin's fundamentals, such as adoption, rather than have short term gains on it.

[Aabcde]

It should also be understood, there is always a risk in every investment, but investing in crypto is a good investment. If we look at the development of bitcoin, every year it must provide at least 200% profit. I experienced this myself.
In addition, it is indeed the concept and crypto technology that makes many people look at it as an asset that must be owned. Yes of course crypto that already has a big name like the top 20 Coinmarketcap.

[Sithara007]

Actually, if we have another recession in 2020 or 2021, I think cryptocurrencies might go up a lot. not because the so-called mythical creature 'institutional investor' but because people from third world countries would try as hard as they can to move their money to outside their failing local banking system. and their best chance is with cryptocurrency.

I have searched a bit on this topic and I still can't find any concrete link between economic recession and the adoption of cryptocurrency. There was no noticeable increase in the acceptance and adoption of cryptocurrency during the recent financial crises, such as the Greek government-debt crisis and the 2012–13 Cypriot financial crisis. ON the other hand, when Bitcoin had noticeable spikes (2013 December and 2017), there were no major economic or financial crisis.

[minairia3]

I agree some of the best investment in the world can be found on cryptocurrency and blockhain. As 2017 bitcoin bubble happened, many investors are now seeking ways on how to earn and gain some income and profits with these. I know this is a very risky type of business class but if you were to research and study which is which, I dont think there will be huge loss. Only those jumping without any prior knowledge suffer with great damage in trading.