it’s not an investment...
Neither were Tulips, internet stocks. But that did not stop them from rising to crazy highs.
From the Wall Street Journal ;
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-what-to-know-before-investing-11613498045
Correct. It will not generate a return. It's just a medium of exchange that the government cannot print, and so over time it will continue to reflect the destructive acts of the monetary authorities over the mediums of exchange that they can print.