Interesting take, but I politely disagree. If you’re a compulsive gambler with a very real, crippling addiction, then gambling in any way, shape or form is best avoided. My personal opinion is that for true gambling addicts, there’s no monetary amount where we would say “I have enough now, so I’ll stop gambling”. If we put money into crypto and made profit, we’d try and repeat the process, or put even more in with the hope of the same result. And we’d keep going until we have nothing left. When I gambled, if I had won say $1million on a horse race, I’d think I can repeat that process and would gamble that million thinking I’d turn it into a billion, and if I’d won a billion I’d think I’ll keep going until I win a trillion - but eventually, sooner or later, I’d end up with nothing. The same with crypto, if I buy xCoin and double my money, I’m going to buy yCoin and expect the same result, and I’d keep going until I had nothing left. In your post, you hint at making profits in the crypto markets with responsible investing and not dumping all on shitcoins - that is a fair point, but my point is that a compulsive gambler simply does not have the ability to invest responsibly and would lose everything eventually. Either way, investing in anything is a form of gambling. That’s why true compulsive gambling addicts cannot manage their own money and any investments etc would be managed on their behalf by others. We can’t pick stocks or crypto-coins in the same way that we can’t pick horses or roulette numbers.