Computerized trading has minimal impact on real asset prices, it just adds efficiency and liquidity. Bitcoin is mostly used as a speculative investment vehicle

Computerized trading has minimal impact on real asset prices, it just adds efficiency and liquidity. Bitcoin is mostly used as a speculative investment vehicle and for illegal transactions. Most technology (Google/FB), took an existing industry and computerized it (Advertising). Nothing is new, and the situation we are in now was discussed 20 years ago as a possibility, just not by the economists and politicians in power.