of COURSE bitcoin is gambling.  It can go up, it can go down.  You make your choice and bet on it.  Seriously folks this place looks like one of those cults where everyone is going to end up drinking poison Kool Aid.  The stock market is gambling.  Getting out of bed is gambling.  Clearly everyone thinks it will continue to go up, myself included, but just call it what it is.  Who knows that the whales at the CME want to do with it?  They could jump in with their hundreds of billions and short it down to $100 if they wanted to.  It's gambling.