Imagine buying $1,000 of Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) three years ago. That was before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a trade-stopping lawsuit that is still inching its way through the legal system. Before the latest cryptocurrency surge, and before the crypto winter that followed. Many digital currencies have soared over this period. For example, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has gained 143% and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) posted a $333% price increase. There was clearly some room for crypto gains in this time span.

So let's see. How would that $1,000 investment in Ripple (XRP) have performed over the past three years? Ah, yes -- here's the chart I was looking for:

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