Why would I be mad? If my neighbour happens to win the lottery, I'm not going around being annoyed that I didn't play. Playing on bitcoin was stupid then and is even more stupid now. That it made some people very rich hasn't changed that fact.

You didn't miss out on anything by not playing the lottery. It's not like you would have also won if you just bought a ticket yourself.

It may be stupid and bad but the only reason we have strong feelings against it is because we missed out. You can convince yourself all you want but deep within we both know it's true.

First of all, I'm not the person you replied to but I want to answer:

I'm mad because there are people who lost their money, trusting that many "techies" know better than them, so they invested as well.

I had some bitcoins before it became a thing, I donated all of them to charity the moment I started suspecting it became (or always has been) a pyramid scheme (when it was like 10K each, yeah I'm a bit slow sometimes). I did once believe that it could be a gold replacement, but it wasn't becoming that too. Zero regrets.

"Oh I couldn't get into a scheme early enough which made many rich", may be what some feel, but there are also some who feel otherwise. If you are a bit smarter and/or technologically more savvy than the average person, there are many borderline legal ways to scam people. The faceless-victim aspect of bitcoin doesn't make it not a scam for me.

Also, I'm not judging you, I'm defending a position I believe in, which is important to me because there's not many things I actually believe.

It’s great for you that you think you know more about my inner states than I do myself. Just because you feel you missed out doesn’t mean that everyone else do. It just doesn’t bother me that some people are becoming rich while I’m just plodding along in my comfortable upper middle class life. The only reason I’m pissed at Bitcoin is because they are spewing out greenhouse gases for almost no use.