[lmm]

If I said something like "Apple won't go out of business because it's a big company", comparing to Sears would be completely fair.

[solosoyokaze]

The OP said Bitcoin is like the lottery. It’s on him to explain that. The lottery has not returned value to almost every person who bought a ticket in the past decade, Bitcoin has. It’s a false and inept analogy.

[lmm]

I think the overwhelming majority of people who bought Bitcoin have paper gains only, not realised value.

[solosoyokaze]

Hardly what you'd call a "failure".

[lmm]

Uncorrelated, I would say. Plenty of failures are valuable as collectibles, at least on paper.

[solosoyokaze]

I think it's clear that "failure" is the wrong word.