What if you invested in Bitcoin in 2020?
BTC-USD · Crypto · Data through 2026-06-01
If you invested $1,000 in Bitcoin in 2020
The same $1,000 in the S&P 500 would be worth $2,574(+157.4%)
The S&P 500 returned $2,574 on the same $1,000. Bitcoin beat the market by $5,019.
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Growth of $1,000
Bitcoin vs. S&P 500 vs. US Dollar, 2020 to present
Year-by-Year Returns
$1,000 invested in Bitcoin starting January 2020
| Year | Price | Value | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $9,350.53 | $1,000 | - |
| 2021 | $33,114.36 | $3,541 | +254.1% |
| 2022 | $38,483.12 | $4,116 | +16.2% |
| 2023 | $23,139.28 | $2,475 | -39.9% |
| 2024 | $42,582.61 | $4,554 | +84% |
| 2025 | $102,405.02 | $10,952 | +140.5% |
| 2026 | $78,621.12 | $8,408 | -23.2% |
What this return means
$1,000 invested in Bitcoin (BTC-USD) in 2020 is worth $7,592 today. That is a +659.2% gain, a little over 7.6x your money, measured to 2026-06-01.
That is a compound rate of about 36.6% a year, an extreme pace that few holdings sustain for 6.5 years. The same $1,000 in an S&P 500 index fund over the same span would be about $2,574, so Bitcoin beat the index by roughly $5,019. The index compounded at about 15.7% a year over that period.
Getting here meant sitting through real volatility. The best single year was 2021 at +254.1%, and the worst was 2023 at -39.9%. At its lowest point the position was down about 40% from an earlier high. Bitcoin price history used here starts in 2014; trading on other exchanges before that is not included. These figures use split-adjusted closing prices and exclude dividends, taxes, trading fees, and inflation, so a real after-tax result would differ.
None of this is a recommendation. It is a record of what already happened, and past performance does not guarantee future results.
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* Bitcoin price data from Yahoo Finance begins in 2014. Earlier trading history from other exchanges is not included. For informational and educational purposes only. Not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. All calculations are based on split-adjusted closing prices from Yahoo Finance and do not account for dividends, taxes, or trading fees. See our methodology and full disclaimer.