[Oni]

With the value jumping up and down, it's a gamble to buy Bitcoins. The value of James' Bitcoins could easily drop in a few days. It's unpredictable.

[w00t]

Bitcoin actually have a pretty solid upward trend. Log scale of the last 2 years to show the average.

[cr33pyguy]

OOOH... I feel bad for this dude

Hope I had that shit

[Oni]

Bitcoin actually have a pretty solid upward trend. Log scale of the last 2 years to show the average.

Overall? Yes. However, nobody wants to be there when the value drops. And if you look at the graph, it does drop.

[lux]

Overall? Yes. However, nobody wants to be there when the value drops. And if you look at the graph, it does drop.

But after all the drops it raises. But there will be a time were it doesn't rise again.

[Raptor]

But after all the drops it raises. But there will be a time were it doesn't rise again.

That's a slightly contradictory statement. The time when it 'doesn't rise again' is more or less unpredictable, the events that could encourage such a thing could happen at any given time. That leads back to Oni's point of how it's a gamble, because it could theoretically plummet overnight - but you won't know until it happens. Though that rule of thumb does practically apply to any stock investment, which is what Bitcoin pretty much is.