[Mad Dawgg]

Well I learned that buying and selling “tulip bulbs” must be very serious business if you are willing to commit suicide over it...

[grania]

with tulips at least people were chasing after some very pretty flowers. A bitcoin....what's made up out of thin air disappears into thin air.

Bitcoin seems more like Enron energy credits or whatever they were.

[Pecos]

Very, very good historical reference. IIRC, the only people that made out well on the tulip bulb fiasco were the children of a famous Dutch painter who bought a bunch of rare bulbs just before he died. The executor of his estate immediately sold the bulbs for gold and the kids were set for life.

Didn't even the British king at the time get caught up in that frenzy?