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Only 2 Of The 10 Most Popular Cryptos In 2017 Would Have Made You Money

Performance of 2017’s ten biggest cryptocurrencies

Speaker 1: 00:00 These were the ten biggest cryptocurrencies in the entire world in 2017. If you bought all ten, only two made you money, and one of them turned a thousand dollars into 48 cents.

So XRP is down 42%, Stellar down 49%, Cardano down 68%, Litecoin down 74%, Bitcoin Cash down 89%, Dash down 95%. It’s not even in the top 100 anymore. IOTA down 90%, and NEM, the eighth biggest crypto on Earth, is now ranked almost 1,800. That is your 48 cents.

NEM price chart with a dashed “Dec 2017 price” reference and a displayed −99.95% change, at 00:30.
NEM price chart with a dashed “Dec 2017 price” reference and a displayed −99.95% change, at 00:30.

But the two that survived: Ethereum up 220%, and Bitcoin, of course, up almost 500%. So before you go all in on the next coin, remember: these were the ten biggest cryptocurrencies in 2017.