till now btc's supply and demand is purely driven by fullfilled and unfullfilled expectations... whereas expectations feed on shoeshineboys, news good /bad, alltime highs and mostly futurology
this is just your opinion and nothing more...
backed by complicated computer science mumbojumbo which your average joe blow (me) doesnt comprehend...
Bitcoin as a technology is backed by the complicated "science" (lol) not the rise. the rise is purely based on supply and demand and the fact that people understand what extremely limited supply versus billions of population all over the world means. and this is while bitcoin is a decentralized currency without all the bullshit of the banks and all those in the middle.
the best advice i can give (joeblow) is buy physical bitcoins , cassascius etc. with money you can afford to lose and hodl!
even if the btc experiment fails you at least hold some memorabilia , which may end up beeing of great value to some collectors in the future..
or at least you got something to show to your grand kids (been there done that got the bitcoin)
in my opinion this is a terrible advice.
first of all collectibles are only good for those who are interested in collecting collectibles not those who want to make a
possible profit.
also if bitcoin fails as you said here, these collectibles are going to be just a piece of metal or plastic or whatever the rest of them are made of without any value. and become trinkets of the history of a "failed experiment" (as you put it)
all the best
cheers
i don't know if it was accident or intentional but please remove all the new lines at the end of your post, it is a little annoying and waste of space.