When all is said and done, every dollar made by a BTC trader will also have been a dollar lost by a BTC trader. And seeing how it's the algo traders and market manipulators that are reaping the profits, it's clear that the small-time retail traders will have lost their money
Only true if, in the long run, it's worth $0. That will certainly be true in the very long run (we'll all be dead). But it may not be true at all over, say, 10 or 20 years. It's been incredibly positive sum over the past 10 years.
