While Billion -Billions of Billions of hedge funds Warren Buffett has long been investing in the S&P 500, recent data shows that since 2020, the index has underperformed Bitcoin around 88%.
On one October 5 x Post By Phil Rosen, co-founder of the Stock Market Data Newsletter Opening Bell daily, noted that while the S&P 500 has moved 106% to USD value since 2020, it has “crumbles” significantly in the BTC denomination, which motivates cheen from Bitcoin foundits.
Standard and Poor’s 500, or S&P 500, is a stock market index that monitors the performance of 500 top companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
Since 1957, the index has delivered an annual return of inflation that adjusted around 6.68%, which is usually higher than the average US inflation rate.
This may be the reason why the famous US businessman Warren Buffett has often Touted the S&P 500 index as the best choice for the average investor, and reportedly supported a 90/10 investment approach-with 90% of a portfolio in the S&P 500, and 10% on the short-term US treasury bonds.
S&P 500 Break Records, but so does Bitcoin
The S&P 500 continued to destroy new records in 2025 and is currently at $ 6,715.79, which has increased by 14.43% since the beginning of the year.
Bitcoin, on the other hand, reached 32% in the year after hitting $ 125,000 for First time ever on Saturday.
Put another way, according to OfficialData.org.
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Differences between Bitcoin and S&P 500
However, the comparison of two investments is not exactly fair.
The S&P 500 is a comprehensive benchmark for the US stock market, which represents the performance of the 500 largest companies that are publicly exchanged in the country, an index that is constantly updating, and is seen as a lower risk and reward investment.
Bitcoin, on the other hand, is a single digital possession with a completely different set of narratives – centered around LackDecentralization and deflection – which explodes in adoption while investors are looking for new ways to increase or maintain value.
Bitcoin is also relatively new, seeing more daily volatility and significantly smaller market cap than the S&P 500, to $ 2.47 trillion compared to a suspicion of $ 56.7 trillion.
