Your polling sample is skewed. Young people are often gullible. Not due to lack of smarts but because of the experiential gap. In the military, especially the lower ranks, you can find quite a few, uh, naive people. The military doesn't want soldiers who deeply evaluate and consider nuances. Despite what the PR squad will say. Here's the reality of crypto:When BTC was trading at, say, $10 each, and you could mine them on a standard laptop? It was a low-risk "investment" in that no one was pumping a fortune into it. Some drunk college student buying 50 of them and not remembering it the next morning? Who hasn't done something similar on Amazon while finishing that bottle of wine "before it goes bad"? And those $10 each BTC? If you bought 50, and held on until they reached $50K each? You made $2,499,500 profit.If you bought 50 BTC at $50,000 each? They'd have to go up to $100K a piece to realize the same level of profitability. The only people who can make a life-altering profit off BTC at its five-digit price are people who already have so much money that they don't need to invest in the first place.The people with the brains who are still investing in crypto? They're looking carefully at the thousands of coins available, doing some rational math, and "throwing away" a couple hundred here and there on a few select choices, hoping those will do a BTC-like leap from $10 to $50K. If you look, you can whittle away 99% of the crop as obvious duds.

Your polling sample is skewed. Young people are often gullible. Not due to lack of smarts but because of the experiential gap. In the military, especially the lower ranks, you can find quite a few, uh, naive people. The military doesn't want soldiers who deeply evaluate and consider nuances. Despite what the PR squad will say. Here's the reality of crypto:When BTC was trading at, say, $10 each, and you could mine them on a standard laptop? It was a low-risk "investment" in that no one was pumping a fortune into it. Some drunk college student buying 50 of them and not remembering it the next morning? Who hasn't done something similar on Amazon while finishing that bottle of wine "before it goes bad"? And those $10 each BTC? If you bought 50, and held on until they reached $50K each? You made $2,499,500 profit.If you bought 50 BTC at $50,000 each? They'd have to go up to $100K a piece to realize the same level of profitability. The only people who can make a life-altering profit off BTC at its five-digit price are people who already have so much money that they don't need to invest in the first place.The people with the brains who are still investing in crypto? They're looking carefully at the thousands of coins available, doing some rational math, and "throwing away" a couple hundred here and there on a few select choices, hoping those will do a BTC-like leap from $10 to $50K. If you look, you can whittle away 99% of the crop as obvious duds.

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