Bitcoin or IPO

What it does

My friends kept telling me that bitcoin was 'too expensive' to buy now, and that they had 'missed the chance' to buy it. In response, I made this tool to show them the opportunity cost of not buying bitcoin, compared to recent tech IPOs.

Calculate the opportunity cost of buying bitcoin versus the top 50 tech IPOs of the last decade.

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