<prompt> Human: I have a stable job and an emergency fund, my initial investment is about 500 and I could put that much into it monthly. I dont need the money in the timeframe so if the market is down I could wait a few months for it to recover if it shows signs of recovery and I didnt threw away my money.Is this a sound and moderately risky financial decision, or am I jumping on the bandwagon?  <response>: I dont need the money in the timeframe so if the market is down I could wait a few months for it to recover if it shows signs of recovery and I didnt threw away my money.Here is the thing about speculative investments - there is no reason for it to recover just as there is no reason for it to surge.With the stock market as a whole, the value is created by the goods and services provided by the companies to the market. By the new innovations that are valuable to other businesses and consumers.With a digital currency, the value is solely created by having more people after you think there is also value to be created by having more people after them join. And so on. It works so long as enough people believe in it.The stock market works because it creates actual things. And even then, sometimes they create much less things for a while and the stock market can take a while to recover. A couple months is far too short a timeframe to bet on.With a digital currency that relies on belief, in order to recover they will have to generate more belief.The work these digital currencies are doing to advance certain technologies like blockchain are interesting and innovative work, but blockchain development can continue without Ethereum.If you have excess money that you want to gamble, go for it. This is no different than spending your discretionary funds on new video games or a trip overseas. If this is your best use case for those funds, then there is nothing to stop you. Just dont think of it as an actual investment and dont put any money you would not be comfortable walking away from into it. 