Todd, the same was said for tulips in the tulip mania, pets.com during the dot com fiasco, and securitized debt during the housing bust in 2008. What is bitcoin worth? It is pure speculation.
Can people make money speculating? Sure, but it is very different than investing in a business that produces something and has a stream of cash flow. The price of bitcoin is driven 100% by human emotion, and trying to predict human emotion is a difficult thing.
Investing is not about trying to get rich quick, it is about trying to get rich for sure. Bitcoin doesn’t meet that hurdle.