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this is the root of my belief as well -- that it is a speculative farce, but so long as it is above 0 it will continue to be in use.

Another poster made me aware of this joke that I think summarizes Bitcoin pretty accurately. http://www.getamused.com/jokes/pennystock.html

Only in this case it's not a single buyer.

Only in this case it's not a single buyer.

i.e. completely invalidating the comparison.

That's not true, there could be multiple buyers and the punchline would just be, "to whom? there's only the three of you."

That punchline would make no sense. The client would reply "to the market of two buyers".

that's right, I had a momentary lapse in judgement, sorry

But a few days later the second person would sell and then we would be back at the punchline for the only remaining stock holder :)