Right now bitcoin is a gambling thing.
Why else would you invest in it right now? There is no legit reasoning why someone would invest this kind of money.
Right now every ten minutes bitcoin as a system pays out bitcoin of 300.000$ for avg of 2000 transactions.
What real value would bitcoin has, right now, to make this kind of investment not just gambling?
And from a pur statistic value, I bought 100% drugs with my bitcoins (probably 500-1000$ per year for the last 5? Years) while I do know stories of friends who bought one pizza or one Döner, no one I know use bitcoin for anything else.
So I don't share your criticism. After all btc is invented out of thin air and you don't need to put that kind of money into btc as itt doesn't support the research of cryptocurrency.