





So its been a full year and I have been really paying attention to how things have gone with cryptocurrency in much greater detail than before. And I learned some pretty crazy shit that pretty much nobody is just coming out and saying at this point in time. Its been a wild ride this year, especially near the end.

The main thing I learned is that all of it was a complete wash. Nothing mattered. The speculation, the pro tips, the king of crypto Bitcoin, professional advice, day trading tactics, learning to read the market and making sound choices.

Nothing mattered, it was all completely worthless. Everyone fucked up and everyone single one of us had no clue what we were talking about. Even the smartest of the smart early adopters with years of training in the stockmarket were all wrong. Those people who berated others for any portfolio not having at least 50% Bitcoin were completely wrong. Anyone who thought Bitcoin was a good investment in 2017 was completely wrong.

The only thing that ultimately mattered was how many of a coin you were holding. It barely even mattered what coin it was. A lot of people have been under the impression that Bitcoin was the king of 2017 and everyone who held Bitcoin made the most money. When you pay attention to ROI (Return On Investment) starting at 1/1/ 2017 you will quickly realize how meaningless all speculation was this year. Bitcoin was not even close to the top coin this year. It shouldn't even be on the list!

Pretty much nothing mattered. If you don't believe me then buckle up, I have the numbers to prove it and you are in for a ride.

Lets go through a list of coins and pretend that on 1/1/2017 you invested exactly 1000 USD. Lets begin with Bitcoin.

$1000.00 of Bitcoin on 1/1/2017 would have got you 1.025 BTC

ROI for 2017 : $14557.31

Not bad right? If you were smart you would have likely sold off at 19k and made close to 20k total.

So right away I want to go for the throat on this. Example number two is going to be a fairly well known joke coin that pretty much nobody takes seriously. The ever well known Doge Coin. You are probably thinking that this is a complete joke right? Well, lets look at the numbers.

$1000.00 of Doge on 1/1/2017 would have got you 4524886.877 Doge

ROI for 2017 : $35877.82

35k!! What the fuck, Doge was insane this year!!! This joke coin was no joke at all actually, it was complete fucking blow out and it destroyed the hell out of Bitcoin ROI this year...

Well, lets take another look at a joke meme coin nobody took seriously this year...

Many people refer to Monacoin as the Japanese Doge. Nobody has ever gone on record as taking this coin seriously. So lets take a look at the ROI for Monacoin in 2017...

$1000.00 of Monacoin on 1/1/2017 would have got you 42643.923 Monacoin

ROI for 2017 : $445628.99

Well, uh, I would be a millionaire right now... Easily. Off a fucking joke Japanese cat coin. Where were the speculators talking about how to maximize profits for this? They were all butt riding bitcoin. So when I bring this up a lot of people tend have this fairly common response.

"well, sure, but it would have been such a huge gamble to find that one coin that would have gone higher, Bitcoin was always the safer choice."

The problem is, The above two examples are not some random occurrence. I am flat out saying it was barely a gamble at all. Looking over coin market cap shows a very large number of coins out paced Bitcoin by more than double in 2017. And most of those coins were considered safe holds at the time as well. The list of coins that didn't is very low. Lets take a look at other, "safer" alt choices in 2017.

$1000.00 of Ethereum on 1/1/2017 would have got you 121.506 Ethereum

ROI for 2017 : $87466.09

$1000.00 of Ripple on 1/1/2017 would have got you 153964.588 Ripple

ROI for 2017 : $227867.59

And Ripple is already looking really strong for 2018 right now... Good god...

$1000.00 of Litecoin on 1/1/2017 would have got you 236.406 Litecoin

ROI for 2017 : $56574.31

$1000.00 of Dash on 1/1/2017 would have got you 87.796 Dash

ROI for 2017 : $95429.86

Now I can keep going with this. There are some coins that did not do so amazing in 2017. Then there are some that just exploded the hell out. I have gone through a lot of the list on coin market cap and have not found a single coin that did worse than Bitcoin however. Bitcoin, as of right now, is the worst performing coin for 2017 especially when compared to the more well known alt coins.

The fact that Doge coin beat Bitcoin alone should give pause to anyone who thought they had their head in the game. If I told people in 2017 that I went all in on Doge I would have been laughed at. People would have assumed that I had lost my damn mind.

But the honest truth is that, in 2017, Doge completely destroyed Bitcoin. I would have more than doubled my gains... You could have almost literally threw a dart at a dart board with pictures of coins on it while blind folded and increased your gains by more than double this year.

Everyone was fucking wrong. EVERYONE.