Bitcoin investment calculator
What a sum put into Bitcoin on any day since August 2011 would be worth today — on real daily closing prices.
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$1,000 put into Bitcoin on 1 January 2020, when it closed at $7,179, would have bought 0.1393 BTC — worth $8,932 today at $64,117, a gain of 793%.
$1,000 in Bitcoin on 1 January of each year
One lump sum per year, valued at today's price.
| Invested on | BTC price then | BTC bought | Worth today | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan 2026 | $88,728 | 0.0113 | $722.63 | down 28% |
| 1 Jan 2025 | $94,388 | 0.0106 | $679.29 | down 32% |
| 1 Jan 2024 | $44,187 | 0.0226 | $1,451 | up 45% |
| 1 Jan 2023 | $16,615 | 0.0602 | $3,859 | up 286% |
| 1 Jan 2022 | $47,777 | 0.0209 | $1,342 | up 34% |
| 1 Jan 2021 | $29,403 | 0.0340 | $2,181 | up 118% |
| 1 Jan 2020 | $7,179 | 0.1393 | $8,932 | up 793% |
| 1 Jan 2019 | $3,823 | 0.2615 | $16,770 | up 1,577% |
| 1 Jan 2018 | $13,443 | 0.0744 | $4,769 | up 377% |
| 1 Jan 2017 | $997.75 | 1.00 | $64,262 | up 6,326% |
| 1 Jan 2016 | $433.82 | 2.31 | $147,797 | up 14,680% |
| 1 Jan 2015 | $313.81 | 3.19 | $204,319 | up 20,332% |
| 1 Jan 2014 | $754.90 | 1.32 | $84,935 | up 8,393% |
| 1 Jan 2013 | $13.22 | 75.64 | $4,850,017 | up 484,902% |
| 1 Jan 2012 | $5.00 | 200.00 | $12,823,444 | up 1,282,244% |
Daily closing prices; ignores fees, spreads and taxes. A purchase on a date with no close uses the next day's.
How to read this
Every row is real history, and almost every one is a gain — but the table hides the route. Each of those holdings fell by more than half at some point along the way, several by more than 75%, and someone who sold during one of those falls kept the loss. Buying in a single lump also concentrates timing risk: the rows from 2018 and 2022 show how much a purchase near a peak depended on waiting years. Spreading purchases out is what the DCA calculator tests.
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Not financial advice. Figures are for information and can be delayed or wrong; crypto assets are volatile and you can lose everything you put in. See our methodology and disclaimer.