Sure, but to say that is to say that bitcoin's "unique investment opportunity" is akin to that of pieces of irreplaceable artistic value ... or tulips of irreplaceable biological heritage.

Once people believed bitcoin could be a currency, a medium of exchange that could be used for the ordinary transactions people used ordinary cash for. Now, it's an "investment vehicle" hurdling down the road that gold, natural gas futures and similar things went gone after 2008 when the Fed began QE in earnest.

And sure, "it's different thing time."