[jrbedard]

Those could qualify:

  - Satoshi Nakamoto (bitcoin creator(s) ~1.5M btc = $3.5B today)
  - Roger Ver (reportedly bought >$1M of btc in ~2010)
  - Winklevii (reportedly owned ~1% of all btc in 2013 = ~$2B now)
  - Ethereum funder(s) (bought >$1M of ether at 2014 crowd-sale @ $0.25, today @ ~$200/eth)
  - Chinese btc/eth mining farm owner(s)

[gtirloni]

I don't understand why people buy into Bitcoin. If I want to be part of an economic scheme where 1% of the people hold 90% of the wealth, I already have the current global economy for that. I do have a very simplistic understanding of economics but to me Bitcoin seems like all about speculation (so those that bought into it trying to make their "tokens" have any value at the expense of late suckers).

[psyc]

The trading aspect is speculation. It has real value though, for example as a common black market currency.

[WrtCdEvrydy]

Bitcoin's price is two parts, one part is the fact that you are owning a digital asset that was guaranteed to be generated by burning power, in the form of electricity, the same way as working for a paycheck while the second part is speculation.

I buy Bitcoin when the price is stable and there's no ridiculous bubbles. I sell when the bubbles are one-two weeks in because that's when every Joe Schmuck wants into Bitcoin.

[AznHisoka]

You just answered your own question - because they want the opportunity to get rich.