Whether the gamble pays off is completely irrelavent. What would make sense is selling the motorcyle and whatever cars that aren't necessary, other toys and maybe even downgrading their home assuming they had significant equity. What the parents have chosen to do with little kids in tow is madness, and these kids should be taken away and put into foster care because it's pretty obvious they don't care enough about them to provide the basic necessities of modern life. If btc goes into another bear mkt, this story will probably be repeated as an example of the harm btc can do - but that's not the story, the story is bad parenting.