Last week, I announced the beginning of a semiregular “Ask the Sketch Guy” service. Send me your questions, but not just any questions. I want to explore the deep, dark conversations that we don’t hear on the financial pornography network, like how we feel about money and how money makes us feel.

To kick off things, Shawn Cook from San Diego asked a question about Bitcoin. (For an explainer on Bitcoin, see this article by Nathaniel Popper of The New York Times, who literally wrote the book on the topic.) His hipster friend is constantly bugging him to invest in the cryptocurrency. It’s making Shawn wonder: Should he ditch his boring old index fund?