The award for the best investment goes to the cryptocurrency that has appreciated the most in its value over the course of the year. Some cryptocurrencies have not been around for the full year. In this case, we use the date it has appeared on coinmarketcap as the entry point, and January, 1st 2018 as the final price snapshot. In order to make this analysis more practical we've also limited the selection to those cryptocurrencies that have had at least $1,000,000 market cap at the beginning of the year or on the day they were listed on coinmarketcap.

Without further ado, the winner for the best investment of 2017 is xtrabytes! This little known crypto has provided its believers 3879.98 return on investment, meaning $1 invested a year ago would have given you almost $4000 to work with today.