Instead of Buying Bitcoin, Play This Bitcoin Trading Game

I’ve lost over $300,000 worth of bitcoin so far. Now’s the bit where I’m supposed to tell you it’s all fake, and I only lost it in the cryptocurrency trading simulation game Bitcoin Flip. But no, I actually bought $400 worth of bitcoin back when it was cheap, then left it in the hands of the Mt. Gox online exchange, which then lost it. And yet I still recently bought another $210 worth of bitcoin, which has already dropped to $172. This is not investment, this is gambling. I would have done better just playing Bitcoin Flip.

Bitcoin Flip is a free game for the web, iOS, and Android. (Google recently kicked it off the Play store, but the creators, a group of Latvian students who previously created the stock-market simulator Trading Game, are working to get it reinstated). In the game you can trade 24 cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Monero, and Dogecoin, based on real-life prices pulled from various online exchanges. Below the sophisticated price graph for…