MicroStrategy Would Have Earned $50 Billion More If It Bought This Altcoin Instead of Bitcoin (BTC)!

MicroStrategy, the largest institutional Bitcoin investor, has been attracting attention with its weekly BTC purchases that have been ongoing for a while.

MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor stated that Bitcoin purchases will continue, and that MicroStrategy could have made approximately 3 times more profit if it had invested in XRP instead of Bitcoin.

Matt Hamilton, formerly of Ripple and now an Arbitrum developer, said that if MicroStrategy had invested in XRP instead of Bitcoin, it would have seen its profits increase by nearly three times.

Hamilton compared XRP’s price performance to Bitcoin in the face of MicroStrategy’s aggressive Bitcoin buying strategy, suggesting that MicroStrategy’s total profits could have been significantly higher if it had chosen XRP.

Hamilton noted that MicroStretegy purchased Bitcoin between August 2020 and January 13, 2025.

Stating that the company bought approximately 450,000 Bitcoins and spent $28.2 billion, the famous name stated that this investment was worth approximately $45.3 billion and a profit of $17.1 billion was made.

According to the table, the company made its first Bitcoin purchases on August 11, 2020, while its largest purchases were made on December 9 and December 16, 2024.

However, the famous name MicroStrategy argued that if they had purchased XRP instead of Bitcoin during this process, they would have had 31.4 billion XRP, which is currently worth $78.7 billion.

Placing hypothetical XRP purchases based on Bitcoin purchase dates, the famous name found that if XRP had been purchased instead of BTC on the same dates, MicroStrategy would have made a profit of $50.4 billion, $33 billion more than Bitcoin.

Hamilton’s Bitcoin-XRP comparison sparked backlash in the crypto community, with Siacfo founder Arniel Sia responding by noting that XRP’s price never recovered from its 2017 peak of $3.84, while Bitcoin has since surpassed its previous peak.

.*This is not investment advice.