Re: Of course, this ‘investigation’ conveniently ignores..
"Don’t get me wrong, I am pretty sure that Bitcoin will go the way of the tulip bulb bubble,"
If you want to make comparisons, then use something accurate. Tulipmania was almost entirely a futures market, whereas bitcoin futures are a fairly new thing.
The link you posted for tulipmania is just so terribly wrong it's not funny. Implying the mania went on for decades and that it was traded on stock exchanges.....
The whole tulipmania lasted, inlcuding all court cases resulting from it, about three years. Only about a year and change of that were people actually trading bulbs, offshoots and futures.
The actual trading took place in pubs, where a percentage of each sale went into a "booze and food" fund. That is what is held as the main reason why things got a bit out of hand, since the traders where getting pretty pissed at the same time.
The most valuable tulip bulbs had roughly the same value before and after the mania. It was the common varieties going by the pound that had the price exponentially rising.
Considering the vast number of financial scams and frauds, and the rather large numbers of currencies that have been issued and are now void*, there are plenty of other suitable examples to warn people off bitcoin. Tulip's just indicates that someone does not understand either bitcoin or tulipmania.
* often the losing side in any big war