Got $1,500? Is It Better to Buy Bitcoin, or Viking Therapeutics?

Every now and then, two investments land in front of you that look nothing alike but pose the same underlying questions: How much uncertainty are you willing to tolerate, and in what form? In that vein, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX) sit at opposite ends of the asset spectrum, with one being a cryptocurrency, and the other a pre-revenue biotech with some valuable intellectual property that's chasing a seat at the anti-obesity drug table. Both are genuinely compelling, but both ...