What inflation did to your cash, vs. Bitcoin
Pick an amount and a start date. See how much buying power that cash lost to inflation, and what it'd be worth if you'd bought Bitcoin instead.
$100 · Jan 1, 2015 – Sep 26, 2026
$100 held in cash since Jan 2015 has lost 30% of its buying power. The same $100 in Bitcoin is worth $26,710 today.
After inflation, your cash buys what $69.80 did in 2015. The Bitcoin buys what $18,644 did.
Cash lost to inflation
30.2%
of its buying power, Jan 2015 to Sep 2026.
- Cash: buying power left (in 2015 dollars)
- $69.80
- Lost to inflation
- $30.20
- Bitcoin: worth today
- $26,710.03
- Bitcoin: after inflation (in 2015 dollars)
- $18,644.47
- BTC price then
- $314.25
- BTC price now
- $83,936
What your $100 buys now
30.2% of the buying power
0.318219 BTC at today's price
186.4× the buying power you started with
Close on Jan 1, 2015
Close on Sep 26, 2026
Bitcoin Cash
Both lines are in 2015 dollars, so inflation is already taken out. Cash slides down; Bitcoin is what your stack would buy. Slide across for any day.