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Money isn't an investment, it's a currency. Of course it's a bad investment and investing in forex is barely a better investment than crypto (purely because there's less risk of a sovereign currency devaluing to 0).

Investing in capital, like stocks, property, equipment etc does not require someone to lose money for the capital owner to profit. If I invest in a stock, each year I'm paid a dividend based on the profits of that organisation - no losers required. I could later sell that stock at the exact price I paid for it and come away with profit from those dividends. What determines whether it's a good or bad investment, is the ratio of profit to the capital owner compared to cost of the asset. Crypto generates 0 profit, so it has 0 value as a capital investment.

Stocks pay dividends to their share holders. Stocks also represent portions of companies that make other things.

Basically you're saying that crypto is like a shitty stock that doesn't pay dividends, doesn't generate a profit, makes nothing, is not actually valuable, and is only worth what you can sucker someone else into paying for it. I agree.

But I also wouldn't invest in such a stock.