{"id":10242,"date":"2022-03-10T11:39:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T11:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=10242"},"modified":"2022-03-10T11:39:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T11:39:52","slug":"investing-stimulus-checks-in-terra-luna-cryptocurrency-would-have-fetched-whopping-23674-returns-now-bitcoin-united-states-dollar-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=10242","title":{"rendered":"Investing Stimulus Checks In Terra (Luna) Cryptocurrency Would Have Fetched Whopping 23674% Returns Now &#8211; Bitcoin &#8211; United States Dollar ($BTC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-26074311\">\n<p>Americans have recieved three rounds of stimulus payments from the government. In 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Act mandated payments of $1,200 for eligible adults \u2014\u00a0another $500 was available for those with qualifying children.<\/p>\n<p>In December, 2020, the Tax Relief Act declared additional $600 payments for eligible adults and up to $600 for those with qualifying children.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the American Rescue Plan gave $1,400 payment to eligible adults and up to $1,400 for those with qualifying children.<\/p>\n<p><em>See Also: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/how-to-buy-terra-luna\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>How To Buy Terra (LUNA)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Investment: <\/strong>Supposing an investor had purchased <strong>Terra<\/strong> (LUNA) with three of their stimulus checks valued at $1,200, $600, and $1,400 respectively on April 11, 2020, Dec. 29, 2020, and March 12, 2021, here\u2019s how much they would have at press time when the coin traded at $94.82.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" cellspacing=\"1\" style=\"width:500px\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">Date Of Purchase<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Stimulus Amount<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Purchase Price<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Coins Obtained<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Current Worth<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Percentage Change<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>April 11, 2020<\/td>\n<td>$1200<\/td>\n<td>$0.19<\/td>\n<td>6465.517<\/td>\n<td>$613,060<\/td>\n<td>50988%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dec 29, 2020<\/td>\n<td>$600<\/td>\n<td>$0.648<\/td>\n<td>925.926<\/td>\n<td>$87,796<\/td>\n<td>14533%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>March 12, 2021<\/td>\n<td>$1200<\/td>\n<td>$14.16<\/td>\n<td>98.87<\/td>\n<td>$9374.85<\/td>\n<td>569%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Total<\/td>\n<td>$3000<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>7490.313<\/td>\n<td>$710,230<\/td>\n<td>23674.33%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Why Luna Is Rising: <\/strong>Notably, LUNA hit an all-time high of $104.58 on Wednesday. At press time, it traded almost 9.1% below that level. Since the year began, LUNA has shot up 6.2%. Comparatively <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a>) and <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/is-ethereum-a-good-investment\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethereum<\/a><\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\" rel=\"noopener\">ETH<\/a>) \u2014 the top two cryptocurrencies by market cap\u00a0\u2014\u00a0have declined 14.35% and 29.3%, respectively, in a similar period.<\/p>\n<p>Terra\u2019s network consists of two tokens, a stablecoin called <strong>TerraUSD<\/strong> (UST), which tracks the price of the dollar and LUNA. UST is underpinned by a mechanism that involves burning LUNA.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in LUNA comes at a time when it has registered a growth in its ecosystem. Over the past 30 days alone TerraSwap, a leading decentralized exchange of Terra, witnessed over $1.45 billion of UST traded.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/files\/u172083\/screen_shot_2022-03-10_at_14.10.29.png\" style=\"height:352px;width:650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Terra\u2019s Growth Through Graphics \u2014 Courtesy app.terraswap.io<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read Next: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/22\/03\/26073712\/ethereum-co-founder-vitalik-buterin-urges-compassion-for-russians-belarusians-resisting-pu\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Urges Compassion For Russians, Belarusians Resisting Putin&#8217;s &#8216;Z-ombie Regime&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/22\/03\/26074311\/investing-stimulus-checks-in-terra-luna-cryptocurrency-would-have-fetched-whopping-23674-r\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have recieved three rounds of stimulus payments from the government. In 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Act mandated payments of $1,200 for eligible adults \u2014\u00a0another $500 was available for those with qualifying children. In December, 2020, the Tax Relief Act declared additional $600 payments for eligible adults and up to $600 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[36],"tags":[50,194,6069,52,579,6070,720,357,662,578,2097,356,577,5171],"class_list":["post-10242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-bitcoin","tag-btc","tag-checks","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-dollar","tag-fetched","tag-investing","tag-luna","tag-returns","tag-states","tag-stimulus","tag-terra","tag-united","tag-whopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pepi-stojanovski-mjsfnz8baxw-unsplash_2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10244,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions\/10244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}