Reacting to the assessment, Roberto Talamas, Messari researcher, underlined that Bitcoin has generated a yearly yield of 230% on average, over 10x greater than second-ranked assets.
Notably, the US Nasdaq 100 Index took the second place with yearly returns of 20%. The US Large Caps, representing shares of companies with market cap of over $10 billion, followed suit with a gain of 14%.
The only other category of assets, which has posted double-digit gains in the past decade, is US Small Cap stocks, which recorded yield of 12.9%.
The data also indicates that gold has generateda yearly return of 1.5% since 2011, with five out of the last 11 years recording negative return. The Gold Price indicates that the yellow metal has declined by 8.5% since the start of 2021, putting gold investor and fierce advocator Peter Schiff in uncomfortable position.
Asset Class Returns over the Last 10 Years…
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From the beginning of 2011, Bitcoin’s aggregate gains are a mind-boggling 20 million percent. Specifically, the best performing year for Bitcoin is 2013, when it recorded a gain of 5,507%. The data also indicates that Bitcoin has recorded an annualized loss only two times in its history i.e. on 2014 and 2018, when it recorded losses of 58% and 73%, respectively.
Since the beginning of 2021, Bitcoin (BTC) has gained 108%, with the markets reaching an all-time peak of just $61,500 on March 14.