What If I Bought Bitcoin in 2020?

See how a £1,000 investment in Bitcoin (BTC) at the start of 2020 would look today.

Price on 1 Jan 2020

£5,429.18

Current price

£54,117.95

+896.8% total return

£1,000 would be worth

£9,967.98

Held from 1 Jan 2020 to today

Context

Buying Bitcoin in 2020 meant entering near the COVID crash lows and riding the full 2020-2021 bull cycle. Even after the 2022 drawdown, this is one of the strongest entry years on record.

Why this matters

A simple buy-and-hold result like this is only one outcome of many. Real investors make decisions over time — they take profits, they panic-sell, they buy more on dips. The scenario builder lets you test those decisions on the same data and see how they would have changed your final outcome.

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