Ethereum, 2016: $1,000 into a two-year-old experiment
Ethereum launched in July 2015 with a whitepaper promising a "world computer". By January 2016 it traded under a dollar and was mostly known to developers, not investors.
$1,000 at the January 2016 month-end close (the earliest available, $0.95), held to the latest close (2026-08): $2.38M.
Ethereum fell ~95% from its 2017 top to the 2018-19 lows. Anyone holding this number survived that drawdown. Many did not.
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