Here's How the 10 Largest Cryptocurrencies Have Performed Year to Date
Among stock market industries, things like marijuana, the Internet of Things, surgically assisted robotic systems, cancer immunotherapies, and electric vehicles are all the rage. Yet you could add up the gains in all of these industries combined, and you probably wouldn't even come close to the returns from cryptocurrencies since 2017 began.
Through Aug. 26, 2017, the aggregate market cap of cryptocurrencies had ballooned by 810% year to date, from $17.7 billion to $161 billion. It's worth noting that this $161 billion figure was before giants such as bitcoin, which comprises nearly half of the digital currency market cap, neared an all-time high of $5,000 this past weekend. A number of digital currencies have returned for investors in just a little over eight months what the broad-based S&P 500 has taken multiple decades to do.
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