[CPLX]

Not really.

Most people who are observant are well aware that there’s deep and enduring demand for ways to gamble and speculate.

It’s really easy to recognize Bitcoin filling that role like the neighborhood numbers game, pachinko, online poker, and tulip investing all have at various times in history.

We just don’t like it.

[waprin]

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

[ric2b]

The tulip bubble is wildly misunderstood, it's actually quite an interesting story about the origin of futures contracts.

It lasted only a few months, there was no long term investing on tulips.