Would the dependency on crypto-currencies become a real disease? This is what the Castle Craig Hospital in Scotland thinks. Indeed, several patients would be dependent on the trading of virtual currencies . Doctors compare this addiction to gambling dependency. They therefore use the same methods to treat them, thus helping them to take a step back from their behaviour that is not normal.
I don't think that you can fairly compare gambling addiction to crypto currency addiction (if there's a case like that). Don't we really put their time on trading is not addicted for me. Maybe they really wanted to learn it. How about stock trading? Can we classify stock brokers who spend countless hours on the trading floor addicted as well?
So it doesn't makes any sense to treat them with the same method they used for gambling addiction. And its not fair to call them addiction in my opinion.