As a big supporter of bitcoin and someone semi invested in it since late 2011, I've been here during highs and lows, I've sold and bought during highs and lows and I still hold a decent amount which I consider as a nice safety net. Although I've been panicking lately due to the various frauds committed I still believe that there's some exceptional potential here. For a while now I've been thinking, there's so much secrecy regarding the creator/creation of BTC that it has NSA/Federal entities written all over it.
The mining which we the people who mine do using supercomputers mining blocks 24/7 has to have a point and my theory is that all the mining in the world when combined and connected becomes one Super PC for the guys at the NSA financed by we, the people. With the technology that they have such a theory can be validated and there's nothing surreal about it, There's Billions invested in those super rigs worldwide, that's one hell of a super PC.
The fact that the US government didn't rush to shut this down once it exploded made me a believer that this is one big inside job that gets the people to profit but gets another entity to profit from it much more, I also don't think they expected it to be so big. Whatever it ends up it was an innovative way for a lot of people to cash in, the guy that got me into it had sold a fair share when it was priced at around 60-70$, ended up paying for 75% down on a 200+k condo and a one year old Lexus. He still kept some which he sold at about 1K and cashed in enough money to just travel and chill for 3-4 years and he still holds some because the potential is too big to simply get out.