Bitcoin users today are extremely gullible, and make good marks for whatever scam you might be running.
Or perhaps you would just like to take down the entire bitcoin network if you ever become mildly successful.
Or perhaps you would just like to take down the entire bitcoin network if you ever become mildly successful.
It's a lot like that.
Both types of trading (crypto and public market) are gambling. The difference is that some public securities have intrinsic value (dividends and voting rights), whereas crypto mostly doesn't.
If bitcoin only were silly technologists playing around with pie-in-the-sky software projects, that would be one thing. But people's money is being stolen. Lives are being ruined, for real. Real people suffer because of this technology, and criminals prosper.
That is an objective evil. The sooner bitcoin dies, the better for humanity.
I wrote a reply recently to an article posted here by someone pro-Bitcoin - an "early adopter" as they call themselves - who has more critical thinking, however they've been indoctrinated into and must have ignored looking into or trying to understand the pitfalls in order to remain indoctrinated, and to which their own bias of being financially incentivized into seeing the positive in Bitcoin has allowed them to be misguided; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25551114 - you'll probably be aligned with what I say.
TL;DR - It's not helpful to use inflammatory language like "[all] Bitcoiners today are extremely gullible."