So people are buying chances on a chance of ROI.
Yeah pure gambling at this point but the horizon is a lot further away than playing the slots.
So what exactly are you doing? Aren't we all gambling? Aren't we all hoping the BTC/USD conversion rate goes up? We are all literally playing a game... a virtual lottery/raffle where we hope that when the prize hits we are holding enough bitcoin to make it worth our while and investment in the bitcoin lottery/raffle tickets.
This thread is entertaining... I'll give you that. I'm guessing this is where everyone goes to sulk after they are banned on Hashtalk?
You're making a broad assumption here that everyone's doing the same thing. The decision to hold or not hold BTC does not depend on putting one's faith into a very opaque company that seems to be changing its business strategy every few weeks. Anyone is free to dump or buy or otherwise gamble with BTC at any time, there are no major problems with liquidity or any significant lack of information as far as trading is concerned. Try cashing out your hashpoints and let us know how far you got.