The outcome of both are basically similar, you are most probably going to lose everything eventually, but if you talk about the fun part, maybe you are right that one can have some fun if playing on a slot machine with good graphics and a pretty high multiplier possibility which makes it fun even to lose money in dead spins since you at least have the hope to get maybe 10,000x in any spin.

With useless cryptocurrencies that are generally called shitcoins, you get to have no fun at all, you put your money at risk by buying them and then just sit and pray that somehow they succeed and provide you with some profit. If your prayers work out, you are good, and if they don't, you get nothing other than a few billion useless tokens.