[spiorf]

The author looks at this from the perspective of making money.

Bitcoin is a form of money.

It's like HTTP/HTTPS vs IPv4/IPv6. Bitcoin operates at a lower level than stocks, looking at it from that perspective is like looking at the facebook home page and trying to understand the value of IPv6.

Investing/speculating is all about increasing a counter. Here we are talking about another separate counter.

[lottin]

Investing is about increasing production capacity or production efficiency, with the expectation of getting a positive return on investment in the future. Everything else is not investing, but speculation.

[spiorf]

> with the expectation of getting a positive return

With the expectation of increasing the counter.

Exactly my point.