Cryptocurrency increased from $12B to $148B over the past 365 days, since October 2016. That is an increase of 12x. My own personal return is 8x.
So, let's consider that we have not hit mass adoption yet. What about all the hedge funds that will climb over each other to get crypto profits? I predict that we will see another 8-12x return in the next 12-24 months as people awaken to the possibility of diversifying outside of legacy fiat systems. So if you are well balanced with the top few coins and a reasonable percentage of alt coins, multiply your portfolio by 8-12x and see how that looks to you.
Check out this visual of All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization. This article was written when BTC was a $5B market cap, so consider that we now look like the third tier.
Gold at that time would be about 537x our current crypto market.... something else to factor in, if people start switching over to crypto from gold!
-Money graph from the website: http://money.visualcapitalist.com