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A currency whose real-world valuation is way more volatile than any speculative commodity (fluctuation of over 600% against the US dollar over the past 12 months), functions according to hazily-defined rules which nobody understands, and is backed principally by a bunch of Chinese hackers?
Don't count it out, man. Better than gold.
One thing has always bothered me. How did Louis and Billy Ray, investment advisers from Philadelphia with criminal records, just breeze their way onto the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Also, what ever happened to the various criminal charges against Louis stemming from his crashing the Duke & Duke holiday party with a gun, possession of a controlled substance, and (presumably) kidnapping and fraud?