I am excited by the emergence of this technology and see nothing wrong with holding small amounts of crypto in your portfolio, mostly just for fun. Rather than investing MONEY in this technology, the real payoff will come to those who invest TIME to study its emergence and development. Being involved early, doing your homework so that you have a thorough familiarity "from the inside", and having the intellectual aptitude to really understand what is being done, can give you access to "inside information", which you can then use to speculate successfully.

Successful speculators don't follow the herd. They lead the herd. To do that, they must somehow acquire inside information that has not yet been incorporated into the market price.