I'm not an investor. It's too much like gambling. My risk tolerance is very low. I've missed out on a lot of opportunities because of this. My thoughts here probably are worth as much as the stocks I didn't buy.
Crypto is money. It's like buying Yen with USD. Money is like a stock. Buying Yen is like investing in China. But what is Bitcoin? What are you investing in?
Crypto only has value because people are trading it. It's only logical value, is that unlike USD, people can't just print more on a whim causing inflation. Beyond that, it has no asset to back it up. USD might have sold the gold, but we have a military, land, product, etc. Something backs the USD. Nothing backs BitCoin.
Stock values are based on their PE ratio. Well, fundamentally they are anyway. Currency is based on GDP, fundamentally anyway. What is crypto value based on?
Your question is the answer to Crypto. Crypto has no inherent value. It's a bunch of speculation of people buying it because they think that someone will buy it from them for more money.
Tesla has value because it makes cars, sells cars and makes money. Granted, when it's PE ratio peaked at 1:1,100, that means you'd have to own the stock for 1,100 years for the company to generate enough money in sales to justify the price you paid for the stock. (
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/pe-ratio). It makes no wonder why Tesla is crashing now.
The wiz kids make money because they pump and dump. They buy the crypto, the price goes up, they tell you to buy the crypto, the price goes up more, they sell the crypto, take your money, oh well, you just haven't learned the tricks yet.