It's an old obsolete but very potent pain killer that recently resurfaced in Russia and it makes you body rot and require amputations. I think it's an apt comp

It's an old obsolete but very potent pain killer that recently resurfaced in Russia and it makes you body rot and require amputations. I think it's an apt comparison of the 'potence' of these two things. People who take coke don't rot alive and die within a few years. Similarly penny stocks are (relatively) harmless, never used to buy illegal stuff and people who do them don't go around saying that penny stocks will replace all finances and currencies and cause a revolution against the corrupt banker filled governments and accuse everyone of being governmental propagandists (yada, yada..), many of Bitcoin proponents on the other hand...