Hapless speculator, yes.  "Currency speculator," no.  But don't let the undue constraint of discussing Gavin's actual phrase get in the way of your off-topic personal digs.   

Also, I'm not so hapless as to not notice you cherry-picked a gold graph that only shows its predictable retracement from all-time-highs (there, FTFY).

I'll plead No Contest to being not too good with money, having spend almost all my early BTC on under-performing investments.

Back in 2011-12, my reasoning was in line with Gavin's risk-averse exposure-minimization paradigm (and seeding the ecosystem was irresistible nerd fun).

So I tried to buy just about anything I could with Bitcoin - a lifetime supply of Emergen-C, gold, silver, Icedrill shares, and random stuff from BitMit.

The first thing I learned was that valuable lessons are necessarily expensive!

The second thing I learned was to hold, hold, and then hold some more.

But my gold and silver will never be worthless, and provide value as a hedge against fiat and crypto.  And the Emergen-C lasts forever, as they provide comic relief in the form of exorbitantly expensive ascorbic acid!