Investing in Crypto Currency is Gambling?

I've been thinking about this for some time now. Some of my friends have said it's gambling and to be careful. First, let's see how this described.

On Dictionary.com it says:

noun

  1. the activity or practice of playing at a game of chance for money or other stakes.
  2. the act or practice of risking the loss of something important by taking a chance or acting recklessly:
    If you don't back up your data, that's gambling.

So we are taking a chance. Is taking a chance a bad idea? We always take chances in life. What makes this any different?
They say always invest what you are comfortable losing, and I think this is where people lose the plot. A person might get overzealous.

What are your thoughts on this and what kind of counter points would you have if a person said this was gambling?

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