If you buy and hold for multiple years, on average you will make 350% a year, very similarly to how you would see a certain level of average annual returns from buying and holding on the conventional stock market. The growth is being fueled by the adoption of a new technology.
Bitcoin is well known and widely used at this point, even if it hasn’t reached its maximum audience it’s approaching that. Contrast the stock market who’s potential is capped by a combination of fossil fuels and the solar radiation flowing into the earth, which we’re no where near using efficiently, and you can see why they’re not at all in the same category.
Where you see governments 'stealing value', the rest of us see sensible monetary policy.
God save us from idiots who would hand said policy to a handful of software engineers and a self-interested mining cartel.
And the credit crisis was good because it flooded the market with cheap credit... That did what, exactly?
God saves us from the real idiots - those that think they have all the answers, instead of humbly accepting how little they know, about what they imagine they can design
(Those idiots are unfortunately those that seem to be good at the game of: "heads i win, tails others lose"
What adoption? Adoption appears to have stalled and fallen back, with multiple companies having announced that attempting to accept bitcoin had been a waste of time or even a net negative.
When actively trading, profitably is calculated a bit differently, but I presume we're talking about a one off trade.