Sometimes the craziest bets pay off jIt’s like when someone held onto Bitcoin back in 2010 or 2011, not fully sure where it was headed but trusting the process anyway. Most of the time, those long shots don’t work out, but when they do, the payoff is insane. Betting on the “impossible” can sometimes be the smartest move, even if it’s just for fun.
The chance of crazy bets paying off is very low, and you don't have to compare Bitcoin which is an investment to gambling that is not an investment. Speaking of someone that held unto Bitcoin since 2010 till now without being sure about the future, how much was Bitcoin worth then? Not even up to $1 per Bitcoin and mostly some people were still mining and getting so many Bitcoin for free and some people too were getting it from faucets, meaning they didn't spend a dime to get it. In gambling, you must spend your money and it's either you lose it or profit from that money.
If it's about the bitcoin that was held from 2010 to this very year which circulated the whole media some few days or about a week ago, you know it was 10k bitcoin into eight different places, that is, its a total of 8 different wallets containing 10k bitcoins each, that's a total of 80k bitcoins.
And I saw some of the blockchain transactions of the bitcoins and can confirm that the 10k bitcoins were all recieved in their respective wallets when the price of one bitcoin was around $0.7.
Still like you correctly said, an investment is far different from gambling and both should never be compared, people can invest in something and hold for several years even without knowing what the future holds, but still, it's not the same as gambling..