Show HN: That $100 you didn't invest in Bitcoin because they said so

This is weird because none of these actually say not to buy Bitcoin, and many of them are reasonable positions to hold about Bitcoin: the level of risk is extreme. The volatility of Bitcoin is reason enough not to treat it as an investment. It's pretty clear by now that buying it is more akin to gambling. The same is true of day trading stocks as a layperson, incidentally.

If, on the other hand, you put your money into index funds instead, you would have stable, solid returns over a long period of time. But where's the fun in that?

The benefit of hindsight doesn't invalidate a decision you made in the past. You can look at past decisions and decide they were bad if you have reasonable evidence to suggest you could have been better informed, which is not the case with bitcoin.

Similarly you can't expect the past to keep happening. You are no better today than that guy who bought 3 pizzas with 1 bitcoin. You can only rely on the information you have today to make an informed guess.

That being said, bitcoin shows signs of wider fund adoption, with more integrations being developed. It is just a lower risk, lower reward now.

Reminded me of the many deaths of Bitcoin: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/

Well if I had a bitcoin for every time somebody said......... Never mind

Would love to see an interactive graph that displays how much you'd have today if you invested X in bitcoin on a certain date in the past.

#1 reason to not "invest" in Bitcoin https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/