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copy 2024 CryptoSlate. All rights reserved. Disclaimers Terms Privacy All in all, if you'd invested $100 in each of the top 50 cryptos back in April 2017 and held them until now, your portfolio would be worth $40,000 today -- an increase of 700%. That's in spite of the fact that 25 of your cryptos would have lost value or failed completely, totaling over $1,700 in losses. Here at The Ascent, we advocate a long-term approach to investing. It can be hard to stay the course with a new and unregulated industry like cryptocurrency, particularly as so many projects will fail. However, people who held on through the 2018 crypto winter would still be looking at sizable returns on their investments today. "With the price of BTC now well above our USD 15,000 estimate of direct costs, miners are unlikely to sell many coins," Kendrick said, noting that this would be a positive development for the cryptocurrency as miners are a major driving force for the market given the size of their holdings.