#1 I still do not understand the system good enough. I cannot answer each question about Bitcoin with a legit answer. Wich makes me doubt about it.
#2 I do not know if everything that is being said about bitcoin is true. And I cannot research myself since all information out here that i can base logic on can always be false. You never know.
#3 Like the stock market, this whole thing can collapse in a matter of days cause of some major development within the system.
1) what questions? read the faq. unlike other markets you actually are able to understand everything.
2) again the faq, all info should be able to be looked up.
3) bitcoin is NOTHING like the stock market, stocks are shares of actual companies with actual income, capital, and cash that back them, bitcoins are backed by nothing except peoples perception its worth something. buy a share in a company is an investment, buying a bitcoin is exactly the same as pulling the lever on a slot machine.
reasons holding me from investing:
#1 volatility - the value may be $0.01 $1 or $100 a week from now, there is absolutely no stability or sound forces behind the market of bitcoin, its 100% speculation.
#2 hackers - with all of the money to be made the market is going to be plagued with hackers, the 2 recent events of half a million stolen and mtgox are only the beginning. its a hackers wet dream.
#3 getting USD into or out of bitcoin is ridiculously slow and inefficient and at the whim of gatekeepers (ask anyone wanting their money right now held at mtgox)
#4 intrinsic value of bitcoin is 0
I follow bitcoin because its entertaining seeing a 'market' evolve and its something unique.