How that worked out for them? I agree with you though...I wasn't involved with Bitcoin at that time (2011) but I know many were just having fun and trying mining for the first time, that's it. A bunch of nerds playing around if you will. We'll not get into technicalities or even fundamentals on why Bitcoin is what it is today.

Investing in Bitcoin at that time was crazy indeed, and definitely not something a "smart trader" will do either. There were a lot of doubts and questions to say the least and so far most of the mainstream population still don't know how it even works.

Steem on the other hand for me and many others is actually pretty clear. At least how it currently works. But they are hard forking weekly so maybe next month we have a different system and I could see the value of locking SP for 2 years. Or maybe not since they could change it back in the next month.