Originally posted by a passerby:

Do NOT buy bitcoin. It's a "currency" that's used in less than <.0001% of all transactions in the world, and it's traded as if it were a stock, only it isn't bound to any underlying asset.

Only invest in cryptocurrency if you can afford to bleed money for the next 10 years, because there have been no market indications so far that crypto will ever become what its investors claim it will be.