I strongly disagree with that, BTC has been an investment since the very beginning.
The reason people moved from investing L$ in Second Life to bitcoin because they could make much more on bitcoin projects.
The return was higher investing BTC in a Dice websites and get a share from the house profit than investing L$ in SL casino houses.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4464504.0People said the ponzi operator pirateat40 collected 500-700k BTC by offering daily 1%.
I almost sent this guy 100 BTC, thankfully my friend talked︀ me out of it, I was just a stupid kid that time and I thought︁ that looks fun and in 100 days I can withdraw 200 BTC so why not.︂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NxtYou could invest in pre-sale altcoins like NXT, the dev collected only 21 bitcoin︃ and gave the total supply to the investors.
Someone who invested just 1 BTC in︄ that could sell their NXT for 1000 BTC just after launch, the ROI was insane,︅ on the highest around 1 million % for the early investors.
There were so many︆ investment opportunities, now only scam meme launches and Binance launchpads, they hold like 80% of︇ the total supply, pumping up the price and slowly dumping on their users.
Sure there︈ were fanatics like Roger Ver who hold a grudge against Uncle Sam, or Max Keiser︉ against the FED and banks, and a few percent trading illegal goods.
90% in Bitcoin︊ don't care about freedome, they just want to make more $.