Quote Originally Posted by Vindec View Post
Because most amateur investors buy at the top of the market and are the idiots who end up losing most especially with volatile investments such as Bitcoin. I have been burned on tech shares during the tech boom in the past, holding out of greed and then losing money eventually. Remember you don't make a penny until you sell at a profit. Paper profits are meaningless.

I wouldn't touch Bitcoin with a barge pole.
Bitcoin are not shares. Nothing like.
It is a distributed trust system with no one in charge. The key in. Layman’s terms is that nononw can feck it up. It can be attacked but the cryptography is secure.