The 3 Best Bitcoin Stocks in 2017

When the calendar does finally flip to 2018, there's a really good chance we'll look back and refer to 2017 as the year of the cryptocurrency. At the beginning of the year, the aggregate market cap of all cryptocurrencies was a mere $17.65 billion. By Nov. 12, the 1,276 listed digital currencies had an aggregate market cap of $192 billion. You know, just your standard 988% return in 10 months and 12 days. By comparison, it's taken the S&P 500 decades to deliver the same return for long-term investors.

Leading the charge has been the crypto trio of bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and Ethereum. Bitcoin cash, which came into being just months ago after bitcoin's soft fork, recently exploded higher by 300% in a matter of days, briefly surpassing the market cap of Ethereum. Speaking of which, Ethereum has seen its value increase by nearly 3,700% year to date, to a market cap of $29 billion. Meanwhile, bitcoin, while "underperforming" in a sense compared to its peers, has gained 485% this year (through Nov. 12) and has a market cap of $95 billion.

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Source: Fool.com