Cannot read your mind but I'll make a guess based on the fact that you are comparing it to a tech stock and the fact that most people on this website make this

Cannot read your mind but I'll make a guess based on the fact that you are comparing it to a tech stock and the fact that most people on this website make this mistake: You are viewing Bitcoin as a technical project rather than an economic one. Bitcoin is not technically interesting - it is economically genius. Undergrad cryptographers have learnt enough to re-implement the Bitcoin protocol, but understanding the genius of the composition of those simple primitives is a practice of game theory and economics. Historians of money who know not how to program have far more authority than a bitter techie when it comes to analyzing Bitcoin.