Five Reasons Not To Bet On WeWork Stock

More than a dozen years ago, I gave thought to betting $1,000 on Bitcoin
BTC
after its price dropped from $17.50 to pennies apiece in the wake of the June 2011 hacking of Mt. Gox, a Japanese BTC exchange.

Since BTC struck me in that 2011 piece on Forbes.com as an easy-to-steal thought experiment whose anonymity made it useful for drug dealers and terrorists, I opted not to make the bet.