Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
Stocks have some link to something of value. I.e., you can invest in Amazon with 0% risk that the stock is going to be worthless tomorrow.
Not really. If people lose trust in the stock, its price can reach 0, no matter what assets or whatever the company has. It is obv very unlikely the value of Amazon stock is worthless tomorrow, but that likelihood isn't 0%. Of course it's far more likely that eg. bitcoin's value will be 0 tomorrow, but there's nothing fundamentally different about them.