We don’t do that because we know that’s valuable. I bet the guy who stored the coins in his usb device had no idea that it’s now worth millions. Although, that value is smoke and mirrors nonetheless so he really hadn’t lost anything…
The contract price of rare bulbs continued to rise throughout 1636, but by November, the price of common, “unbroken” bulbs also began to increase, so that soon any tulip bulb could fetch hundreds of guilders. That year the Dutch created a type of formal futures market where contracts to buy bulbs at the end of the season were bought and sold.
Tulip mania reached its peak during the winter of 1636–37, when some bulbs were reportedly changing hands ten times in a day. No deliveries were ever made to fulfil any of these contracts, because in February 1637, tulip bulb contract prices collapsed abruptly and the trade of tulips ground to a halt.
So the Dutch put up tulip futures market and the next year the tulip bubble bursted!
His recent shorts tank when he first publishes his “research”. Then 2-3 months later they are higher than before it. It creates a good buying opportunity.