So Aeon's final speculative return for that period was 3111%. For the same period, Monero managed 3054% and Ethereum managed 1058% (despite 2016 being "Ethereum's year" according to some.)
The fact that returns in the thousands of percent are 'normal' shows just how fast "crypto time" is moving relative to other, more traditional, assets. As the pace of technology increases so too will the opportunities to profit. I theorize that the time it takes to go from middle class to millionaire will also shorten, if you are involved in the right assets.
Consider that in 1905, even if the most dedicated traders with amazing skills and sense of price still needed at least a decade to move from the lower rungs of society to respectable wealth. Assets moved slower and if a stock jumped an entire point that was a huge deal on that day. It simply wasn't possible to turn a small nest egg into a fortune without dedicating quite a bit of time (and having a good dose of luck and wisdom along the way).
By the 1980s and 1990s people began to realize that if they made the right moves in the fast paced world of tech stocks, they could go from "average joe" to "miami blow" in just a few years. Many did. Especially once the dot-com boom kicked off in full, we saw many middle class people drastically change their fortunes in just a few short years.
And now here we are in the twenty-teens, in the distant year of 2017... far in the future. And it has EXACTLY what you would expect the miraculous future to have (if you are visionary and intelligent enough to know where to look). We live in a world that houses a thriving market of cryptotokens, secured by powerful new mathematical objects that are captivating humans like no money ever has. And if you are involved in these? Forget it taking years to get wealthy - many of us waltzed into 2016 as middle class plebs and left it with dazzling new fortunes, and the possibility of quitting our day jobs to pursue this full time.
It only speeds up from here! Being able to earn a semi-responsible 3000%+ in a year is ridiculous and amazing, no doubt. But I firmly believe that people in the right asset classes in 2030 will be able to earn that in a matter of months. Then by 2036 perhaps even in a matter of weeks! It's so damn cool to get to live during the rise of the next great technological singularity - what opportunities we will have, and what wonders we will see. Aeon is but one of these, but rest assured it is a crucial one.
