The best day for the Index was on January 15th where there was a gain of 20.11%. The worst day saw a similar move in the other direction with a -21.88% slide on 13th January.

The Canadian Dollar price of Bitcoin was clearly buoyed by the weak performance of the currency against the US Dollar. The CAD started the year at 1.1604 ended at 1.3895 which accounts for a 19.7% move in the price.

Bitcoin greatly outperformed other traditional asset classes such as the TSX (-10%) and Gold (+7.3% in CAD terms).

At its year-ending price the market capitalization of Bitcoin now exceeds $9 billion.