The investment and long term holding opportunity that bitcoin has given has indeed attracted a lot of crowd from the speculative markets.

Even though its primary use was never to be an investment asset, because it can be exchanged in terms of fiat money, a forex sort of thing started and eventually its price rose higher than anything in terms of fiat.

Even then 1BTC is always 1BTC and hence it will be important to collect more BTC at every discounted price.