The first time I heard about Bitcoin was in 2013 when a friend from college posted on Facebook about this revolutionary digital currency that was going to transform the global financial system and make early adopters incredibly wealthy, and I remember dismissing it as a scam or at best a niche curiosity for tech enthusiasts and libertarians, never imagining that six years later I would have invested and lost nearly two hundred thousand dollars chasing cryptocurrency profits, destroying my marriage and my mental health in the process and learning the hardest possible way that markets driven by speculation and hype are extraordinarily dangerous for ordinary people who cannot afford to lose their investment. I came to cryptocurrency in…