From my observation, people don't have much regards for gamblers, they either see them as lazy people who don't like to work, or people who want to take shortcut to get rich. Although people are entitled to their opinions, but I don't like to categorize bitcoin in this group of " try your luck ". I know bitcoin is of a higher level, it's a decentralized digital currency that you can use to make transactions, at the same time you can cash in when the coin appreciates., or even trade it to make profit.
So having made all this comparisons, do you think that bitcoin can be classified as gambling?
A big mistake on you if you ever classify investing or trading in bitcoin as gambling, this is two have really clear difference and I don't see where exactly such a comparison comes in, yes its practically impossible to determine or tell what the price of bitcoin will be in the next hour or so, but even at this, you can still make profit from holding bitcoin even if you wrongly guessed the price of bitcoin for that period of time , what is the secret to this, its being patient.
Being patient can not help you make a dime on a bet that you already genuinely lost, its not possible anywhere, but lets assume you bought bitcoin with the hope that the price will go up in one hour time, and when the time you expected the price of bitcoin to go up came, it didn't, rather it declined, in gambling, that is already a lot bet and your money is gone, but in this particular situation, you can patient and continue to hold, it might take one or two extra hours, or even the whole day or weeks, the fact is that the price of bitcoin will still go up as you anticipated and you can always sell it for profit if you patiently held and don't sell it at a loss.
This is clearly very different from gambling.