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by tluyben2 3291 days ago
I had that feeling although I am don't go into hypes or basically gambling, but I do like some of the fundamental ideas behind the tech and the tech itself (and I see it coming up more and more in my field in talks) so I read a few books and bought 1 BTC in february (knowing very well it could easily be lost money). I have that 1 BTC back in my bank in Euros and I have now a lot more BTC after months of a bit of trading (mostly altcoins) on bittrex. It is free coin as long as it lasts and you can play with profits. The thing is just; don't play with money you will need and take out your initial investment when you can so you run 0 risk after that (yes time, but it's fun and I made a bot early on copying how I traded and so far it out trades me and it can work 24/7). Now that just simply doesn't happen a lot with actual gambling in casino's. I probably will end up with what I put in, but it was a fun experiment.

I also definitely think this tech will mature and interesting things will come of it. That is already happening, but, for most people, it is very hard to see the good from the bad when 'investing'. I did do a few ICO's because I wanted to try (again, with profit so no risk) that I found interesting and I'll just see if that was easier or harder coin than trading.