Sure, maybe put a few percent of your portfolio in it. But my point is that Bitcoin is highly speculative and risky compared to pretty much any other kind of investment. Even gold has industrial uses and isn’t simply a token of value like Bitcoin.

I will concede though that there is a huge market of derivatives which often seem pretty unusual and risky to an amateur investor such as myself, so maybe Bitcoin isn’t that different from some of those investments. I don’t know a lot about that market, other than that it played a large role in the Great Recession, which is a dubious distinction.