Money That Worked: My Real Math Behind +133% BTC vs +757% WBT

Welcome to Money That Worked - my column about investments that have already played out. In this issue, there are two $10,000 deposits over a 2.5-year horizon: one I sent into the “old king” Bitcoin, the other into the youngster, infrastructure coin WBT. Both are currently in profit, but their growth turned out to be very different, and that is the most juicy part. Bitcoin: a basic asset without gimmicks In the fall of 2023, when the feed was alternately burying and worshipping the crypto market, Bitcoin was at $28,000. I deposited $10,000 and bought 0.357 BTC - no leverage and no game of “I’ll wait a bit longer, maybe it will be 20.” I deliberately stayed out of futures: I had seen too many people lose both their deposit and their confidence to a single candle. I needed an asset that, a couple of years later, would simply still be alive and trading above my entry. A year of cascades: pain for leverage, noise for spot Then came a period when the market was regularly shaken by cascading