Free markets are not 'blood baths'! You are just too used to manipulated markets and rigged markets of a fascist world, run by corporations for corporations! Gold is rigged with 'paper gold' because when the supply of anything is infinite, it isn't worth anything! The bankers just print up a bunch of 'paper gold' certificates and investors think they bought gold. Gold is much more scarce than 'paper gold' and when asshole investors buy 'paper gold', all the demand is satisfied, so the price just sits there, like a corpse! Gold is a pet rock! The price is going nowhere, until the rigging ends and bitcoin is here to end all that rigging! Capitalism is two things; It's free markets and private property. We have neither! Bankers want to make this a communist world in which they enjoy the best of everything and we are their slaves! So don't ever say that capitalism doesn't work. It's the socialism that we are experiencing and when we have free markets and private property again, you can say that capitalism does work! Socialism is the LOSER! It has NEVER worked, anywhere! If you can't tolerate the ups and downs of bitcoin or if you don't understand supply and demand, just stay out of investing! You're not up to the task of investing anyone's money!