I consider that it is not an investment as such, because there's no economic value produced by the investment - well, there is the ultra-small economic value produced by the utility of the crypto currency, which is essentially zilch: almost no consumer good, in the end, has seen the daylight that wouldn't have seen the daylight if crypto currencies didn't exist, and consumer goods/services are the bottom line of economic value of course.
It is difficult for me the fathom how you can be so myopic.
Incredible value has already been created by the degrees-of-freedom of being able to move funds globally without permission. (I had already mentioned my personal examples to you in another thread, yet you cling your myopic viewpoint, so can see Monero and anonymity as the only feature of interest)
Bitcoin's daily volume is only $0.2 billion compared to
$6000 billion for the SWIFT transfer system, i.e. 1/30,000th. Imagine if its volume was 100X higher what the effects would be.
And the final chapter of what blockchains are going to enable has not been written yet. Stay tuned...
(You are such a pessimist. I would not want to live in Europe, it's so gloomy. My Belgian friend says he hates going back there to see all the long frowning faces)