If you threw a thousand dollars into XRP (XRP-USD) back in 2013, you might want to sit down. That tiny gamble would now be worth around $445,600. XRP’s unpredictable path has forced even the most jaded crypto watchers to do a double take.
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XRP Investors See Mind-Blowing Returns
XRP launched in June 2012 with a total supply of 100 billion tokens. CoinMarketCap only started tracking it in August 2013, when XRP was the third-largest crypto behind Bitcoin and Litecoin. Ethereum had not even arrived on the scene yet.
Back then, XRP scraped along at just $0.005882. Investors who had the nerve to back it then and bought $1,000 worth would have picked up approximately 170,019 tokens. That decision alone would place them today in the elite club of the top 0.5% of XRP holders. To give you an idea of how exclusive that is, only 31,878 wallets out of 6.37 million currently hold more than 100,000 XRP.
Today, XRP trades at $2.62. Those once humble 170,019 tokens would now stack up to a portfolio worth around $445,649. That is a staggering 445x return over just 13 years. As if that wasn’t jaw-dropping enough, when XRP hit its all-time high of $3.84 in 2018, that same $1,000 investment peaked at approximately $653,473.
Bitcoin Puts XRP Gains Into Perspective
Still, XRP’s long climb up a jagged mountain of fortunes and falls has nothing on Bitcoin’s gravity-defying ascent. Early Bitcoin buyers got in for around $0.058 per coin. At today’s price of $103,889, that represents a face-melting 179,153,448% return.
Just imagine it. A $1,000 Bitcoin bet at $0.058 would have snagged 17,241 BTC. That haul would be sitting pretty at around $1.79 billion today. Yes, billion with a “B.”
XRP Holders Keep Dreaming Big
Despite trailing Bitcoin’s insane returns, XRP loyalists have not lost faith. Many float the dream scenario of XRP skyrocketing to $10,000 one day. If that moonshot ever happened, even someone holding a mere 100 tokens would become an overnight millionaire.
Far-fetched? Maybe. But in crypto, as history has shown, stranger things have happened.
At the time of writing, XRP is sitting at $2.62.
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