Is it too late? Look around you, are your friends buying most of their stuff in crypto? No?
You're an early adopter! Even now even next year maybe even the year after that:)
In crypto the way it stands you're always going to miss the bus. Every crypto has its hype and so on, bitcoin the same, read the whitepapers, read the light papers and make an informed decision and hodl good products that provide something of value to YOU
So bitcoin is a great store of value at the moment because it's secure, has been tested in the real world and is not just a great idea on paper. It works. With limitations but it does.
There are a lot of bitcoin whales from the beginning that have lots of coin because the technology motivated them, and inspired them, they've almost all made the money they need to make and aren't selling the majority of their Holdings. Since 2009 0.01 cent to 18,000usd... Their fiat holdings over the same period have diminished by 2% inflation a year... This is a short time frame but to alot of us this market cap is just the beginning because we truly believe in Blockchain, and maybe DAGs and other tech. To take over the status quo meaning trillions that still need to come in... USD circulating supply is 91T ? Don't quote me on that... but for currency to work it has to have high liquidity--> 300,000,000,000usd for the BTC market cap is a joke for currencies.
Moral of the story you're on a hype train worth the hype:) buy atleast some
Is it gambling? No, just skip the pack of cigarettes, or whatever 5$ is enough... It's not about owning much it's about the time when merchant adoption happens and they find out their consumers also have xyzabc currency and you can say yes I have that! It's a give an take, people will have to adopt currencies before retailers push centralised solutions onto us. Pick your currency with your conscience and you'll shape the world, I recommend not JUST holding bitcoin. For Store of value great! For medium of exchange? There are others! For privacy and anonymity in the market place? There's currencies for that! Democracy tokens? Insurance tokens? Lending tokens?
Even if it's just a fiver:) you're influencing the world:)