About $37 into Bitcoin every week for 5 years
This is the estimated result of investing about $37 into Bitcoin every week for 5 years, from January 2021 to January 2026. Could you have endured an -80% drawdown?
Resumen de las condiciones de inversión
Jan 2021 – Jan 2026 (5 years)
about $37 / week
Bitcoin (BTC)
Recurring weekly purchase
⚠️ Todos los resultados de abajo son estimaciones basadas en datos pasados y se muestran antes de impuestos. Reflejar comisiones, tipos de cambio e impuestos puede hacer que los resultados reales difieran.
Total principal invested (estimate)
about $9.6k
5 years × 52 weeks × ~$37 ≈ $9.6k
Ending value (estimate, pre-tax)
about $46k
pre-tax, fees not reflected (estimate). Based on actual exchange spot prices.
Cumulative return (estimate, pre-tax)
+377%
A high return, but the volatility is extreme too
Maximum drawdown (MDD)
-80%
2022 basis. A stretch where $4 of every $5 vanished.
Periodo de máxima caída: Nov 2021 – Nov 2022
-80%
Unos 30 meses para recuperarse
Bitcoin's -80% maximum drawdown means that $4 of every $5 invested vanished. Enduring this period is far harder than it looks on paper.
A 5-year roller coaster: rise → crash → recovery
When it began in January 2021, Bitcoin was around $30k per coin. It then rose to an all-time high of about $61k in November 2021.
But from 2022, a crash began as global tightening and a broad collapse of the crypto market (the Luna implosion, the FTX bankruptcy) piled up. In November 2022, Bitcoin fell to about $12k, recording an -80% drawdown from the peak.
Someone who kept up the ~$37-a-week investment during this stretch continued buying Bitcoin at very low prices. In 2023–2024, expectations for a Bitcoin ETF and the actual approval (January 2024) combined with the halving effect, and Bitcoin set a new high in March 2024.
After 5 years, the estimated value is about $46k (pre-tax) — roughly 4.8 times the total of about $9.6k invested.
Could you have endured -80%?
The key question in this story is not "+377% over 5 years." It is "could you have held on in 2022 when your account was down -80%?"
At some point during the ~$37-a-week investment, your account balance falls to about 20% of the invested principal. In that state — "will I still put in another $37 next week?" — most people could not.
Bitcoin plays by different rules than traditional financial assets. Its correlation with the stock market has been rising, but it carries risks that stocks do not: regulatory risk, technology risk, hacking risk, and more. This service does not recommend investing in Bitcoin.
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⚠️ Calculado usando los activos representativos de hoy, que pueden diferir de la composición del mercado de aquel momento.