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In traditional investments, long term is most often considered to be a minimum of 5 years. But bitcoin seems to live its life in hyper drive, hence the question to the bitcoin world, what is long term to the average bitcoin investor?

Long term for me if I was investing in bitcoin would be 10-15 years from 2008, after that I wouldn't call it long term due to the volatility. But despite being long term, I wouldn't call it a wise option for long term investment, because it has never been easy to say that the price would go up or down.

Long term for me is 5 years or more, I think the best thing to do right now is invest & HODL for even up to or over 10 years.

To me when I buy for long term I am actually buying for 5+years. I say at least 50% of my bitcoin will not be touched for a decade, (god willing) maybe they will sooner if something happens to me and family cash out. To the average bitcoin investor I would agree with the hyper drive mentality and long term to them would be one year.

i hope btc grow non stop next years... why not  ;)

I think if you have some bitcoin's it's always a good idea to try & save some for the future incase the price explodes so I think people should be invested for over 5 years. Hopefully the price doesn't tank though or that'd be awful :)

I do not consider 5 years long term investment, more like medium term investment. I personaly buy and hold most of my Bitcoins, I dont have time set, just when it happens I really need the saved Bitcoins, Im gonna spend it. The second, very unlikely condition, if the price really skyrockets at least 100x so it would be real life changing wealth for me.

I'm in for the 10 years +, before I even consider selling ;)

as you can see in results of voting, bitcoin is no diffirent here
if you want to invest in smth, you must give it time to do its magic
doesnt matter if it is company or magic internet money :D

Long term is pretty much 10 year+

If you were to have say 100 BTC at this time, then if it will become 10,000 USD/BTC then you will have 1 million $.

It is a totally possible scenario that in 10 years we will see 10k bitcoin. I am positive about it's outcome!

I'd have to agree with some users and say that long term is at least 10 years...

5 years is a good time I thought, surely we will pass some of the highest price every year. but for the long term you have to really patient seems, because bitcoin prices fluctuating and sometimes stable for long time.

I'm a long termer but if I did have significant skin in the game I'd keep a careful eye on things and be ready to run if necessary. The whole thing could unravel pretty darned rapidly in the case of technical disasters, the Chinese government going all out to squash it and plenty else besides.

2 year

For me longterm is around 3-5 years, just hope im not missed when the value of bitcoin reach highest price like in 2013 when it was hit $1200

Do you buy bitcoin on a regular basis?

If so, how many a year?

long term for me is more than 5 years but i am not just holding my bitcoin blindly for this five years because bitcoin is not stocks to sleep on it.
i would like to see bitcoin as a currency and also as something that i constantly trade so i dedicate some portion of my holding to these two things that i mentioned. but the rest is in cold storage and will be kept for 5+ years

For me long term investment in bitcoin is more than 5 years. I trade some of my bitcoin into fiat and I always leave 20% of what I earn freely to my bitcoin wallet and keep it there long term.

It would be similar to the traditional definition for most bitcoin investors.

Cryptocurrencies are going to change the world much like the auto and airplane changed travel! 8)

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In bitcoin long term were at least above 2years. I won't prefer long term investment with bitcoin as their is no assurance of future happening. I make investment depending upon the price fluctuation taking place.

We will be back here chatting about this 5 years time at the halving after this one. Hopefully looking at Jupiter as our ceiling :)

Wow.. people are going to hodl for five years. The hopium is still strong in here ;D

the long term investment in bitcoin is a 5 year or even more period for me. because i believe that bitcoin will be mass adopted in that period of time and the price will be much higher and ready to be used as a real currency.

for me 5 years because halfing the current condition I think for the next few years will be incredible bitcoin

For me im feeling good for holding it for about 5 years or more (it depends).Because what i see from bitcoins enhancements now this year it looks like bit coin gonna bloom untill few years from now it will keep on growin and growing and nig profit coming.So im feelin safe holding it for 5 years

Well, I think every people have their own answer about how long is it. But, for me long term in investment like 6months - 1year and i prefer invest for short term.

I would say that 10 years is a long term investment. 5 years is definitely not a long term investment. I hope that Bitcoin continues to be a great investment and continue to rise in price.

Wow, it's a long time, maybe only 4 - 5 years long term investment for me because I wait for $1000+ for 1 bitcoin price, And need to gather more bitcoin. And renew my investment.

Cryptocurrency will go to the moon in the coming future, whether it will be Bitcoin is unknown.

Bitcoin is very different to traditional investments and I feel like comparing apples to oranges here because with the price of Bitcoin being so volatile one could get the same yield in just under one year where a 'normal' investment could have taken at least 2 or more years. But not everything is rainbows and unicorns when it comes to Bitcoin investments because the price swings are so big and so frequent that you may end up losing money and not gaining anything. I have set a rule for my Bitcoin investment where I access the market situation every year and if I think there is an opportunity to make a profit I sell. I believe 1 year is just about right when we are dealing with such a volatile commodity like Bitcoin.

long term investment in bitcoin , for me, it means as long as bitcoin becomes popular (more than what it is now) and reaches that mass adoption stage that we are all hoping for it to reach.
and this stage happens to be needing a long time which can be around 5 years or more.
so long term investment here is also 5 years but it can be shorter if that adoption stage is reached sooner because of some unpredicted things happening.

To me, long term is 5 to 15 years. I have bought some bitcoin in 2013, I did not sell them. I used some of them.

5 years is considered mid term in traditional sense. Long term are product such as bonds...

My vote goes for 5 years or more, also. I think during this time it will reach mass adoption.

maybe 20 years is long enough time for bitcoin investor. actually he can be a millioner by that time. you can see the bitcoin growth in these 5 years. so i think that 20 years is average time to get huge profit.

Only 6 years,cause 10 years is too long to wait.. i will hold my bitcoins for only 6 years, maybe month of december.
Cause its shopping time. I cant wait for 10 years.

Long term means 5 years or more as per the traditional investment. That is why government gives you a benefit of "long term capital gain" if you hold any investment for more than 5 years.

However, bitcoin investment is not a conventional investment and you should consider more than 5 years if you are investing in bitcoin. Remember one thing, that bitcoin will not be available after 2023. So invest wisely and hold it till your retirement if you want to make your dream come true. That is what I am planning too.

If you are using the word long term, so its mean invest your bitcoin for 5 year, or may be more. otherwise less than 5 years investment so it is not long term way.
Secondly, investment need some time, than it would  give you good profit, and the big investors always doing it. I am also doing investment, and now i m getting profit, but when i was starting it, it was difficult for me, passing the time we can manege it.     

Long term for me is probably close to 5-10 years. However, I wouldn't suggest holding BTC for this long, considering the volatility in price throughout the history of bitcoin. The maximum that I would probably hold is 2 years and then sell.  :)

To me more than 5 years is longterm and is when you will c the real gains in bitcoin.  ;D

in my view long term investment average is 1 year more but in every investment we should not look on a single viewpoint but rather look at the situation when the price has gone up a lot in less than 1 year, then you have to sell these investments to get a profit.

For me, long term buying is probably looking into the very long term future. If I was buying for long term, then I would be buying for when bitcoin becomes a global currency. And that's probably minimum half a decade.

But it seems like you're just promoting your site here.

i vote for 5 years or more.
because i am holding bitcoin until the future when bitcoin is popular. and i am not only waiting for temporary rises for a quick profit.
i am waiting for the day to come so that i can see the real benefit of using bitcoin everywhere in the world.

my longterm in crypto - from 6 monthes up to 18 monthes. But i prefer short or middle term investing

i think a couple of years is a good period for keeping bitcoin and considering it as a long term investment.

this couple of years can start with one or two years and keep on going to the longer time like 5 or 6 years. when things have changed for bitcoin and it is more adopted in the world so it has a higher price

Long term to me means to hold at least for 5 years!
2 years I see more as a mid term investment.
And everything under 1 year is short term orientated imo.

The people who invest for long term in bitcoins can get a lot of profit as the price always increase from time to time.

Long term for me is about 2 years.

For me 3 months is enough i can't stay to much long holding bought bitcoin i just use it for trading purposes to increase the amount of bitcoin so that i can make more profit once the price of bitcoin are increased..

That's not even considered long term. In fact, that's actually considered short-term.
But everyone has it's preferences and just like you said, that much amount of time is used for trading purposes and actually, most traders use even shorter time like weeks, days, hours even.

I think now there is no any down fall to the bitcoin, so we can consider the same long term for bitcoin also which we use for other things, and because of halving in  this year I will say we can keep our money to more than 5 years in bitcoin without any fear.

Well most of us are long term holders right? The believers will hold for at least 3/4 years but to me 1 year seems good to re-analyse and even redistribute my ssets.

Long term investing in cryptocurrency is at least two years for me. I rather do short term. Bitcoin volatility is good for short term investment.

Of course, for many other investment instruments 5 years seem a reasonable long term, but in everything related to technology five years is actually an eternity. I think one year is really a long time talking about bitcoin speculation.

In my opinion and case 1 year is what long terms to me,the price of bitcoin is changing fast in just a span of one year although holding it for a long period of time is very profitable because all this years the price is upwards..

Yeah definitely. For me, long term points towards the extremely long term. When fiat currencies have collapsed and the world is in havoc. And bitcoin will come and save the day :P

At least 10 years before that happens though. 10 years is long term to me.

Just over 4 years I can say long term for bitcoin. I think that 4 years is enough for investment because of halving. If you watched the last halving I think you can understand.The rate of bitcoin was big difference between before and after of halving. This time also same thing might be happening and also we can expect bigger than that also.

For Satoshi we know he'd vote for at least 7 years  ;).  At least for the majority of his stash.

Long term for average bitcoin investor is 1 - 6 month. We can see in comments how much people like to earn fast money. Long term investment needs to be more then 5 years, everything before that is fast in my opinion.

Satoshi is millionaire for long time already, so maybe he is aiming more higher, to be billionaire?

once you buy a bitcoin never sell them... like never

only spend in bitcoin

Hi Bitinvestmint, yes you are right long term as what we define in finance is considered as 5 years above and 3-5 years as medium term and since bitcoin are being hyped nowadays that's why its value goes up so easily, for sure once its price started to go down, it will also go down so fast. So since I am an average bitcoin investor, I categorized long term as 6 months.

long term bitcoin investment is the key of the crypto money investing

2/3rd all voted like me. 5+ years. Good to see so many strong hands around after the last few years we had.

5 years or more is considered long term by many investors, average and big whales too. Who knows in 5 years from now bitcoin price may even be at 10.000 USD per coin, now imagine someone who bough lets say 100 bitcoins with 400 or even 700 USD spending about 70.000 USD max nowadays. Imagine after 5 years in an optimistic prediction of 10.000 USD per coin, that is 1 mln dollars and a life changing event for many.

Like the song says.
Bitcoin is the power, power is bitcoin minute after minute, hour after hour.

I think that's a silly move what is the purpose of buying bitcoin if we don't sell it and make some money? lol.

Dont be crazy. One day people wont want money and you'll be able to purchase groceries and gas with bitcoin. When that happens what's the point of selling for cash?

I agree with that! At the moment, I will spend bitcoin whenever I can with immediate buy back so that my holding will not change/drop- I actually buy back slightly more!

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in bitcoin i don't dare to save my bitcoins over than 6 months because prices very unstable especially currently it's too risky for me and for bitcoin if i could reach my target sell i would like to sell all of my bitcoins even though less than 3 months

that is right. The bitcoin price is too volatile. It was $780 a few days ago. It is $620 now. A drop of $160 in two days.

When it comes to Bitcoin even a few weeks could be  a long term because of the price volatility. So, you have to watch everyday the price and see how things are going at the market. In general, holdong Bitcoin over 3-6 moths could be very risky unless you are playing on realy longterm, like saving for retirement, which  also have seen here on forum.

Picked up 25 btc today. Way more then I normally do but this dip has me going crazy. Great buying time!

Well in ordinary finance system, long term is around 5 and above years of waiting.  But in the world of Cryptocurrency, on month is equivalent to a lifetime.  Due to it's high volatility, Bitcoin price changes from time to time.  It maybe up this week and down next week.  So as for me in Bitcoin, 5 months i think is a long term in cryptocurrency world.

I sold some when the coins were high price. Now waiting for it to go lower so i could buy more

market really is so volatile

If you are investing little amount or holding only few bitcoins than i think 5 year holding should be considered as perfect holding period but if you have 100+ bitcoin than better to hold till pump and sell at pumped price than buy back. There is no reason to keep holding if you have hundreds of bitcoin.

I agree with you with a hundred amounts of bitcoin i think it will be good if he just sell it for $$$$ price. and just wait for the price to have a huge drop like turning from $$$$ to $$$ like $400 below and i think it will be a good chance to buy and save bitcoin again because it easy to make profit without doing anything except from holding.

3 months is enough for long term,price of bitcoin always changing a lot in short term,waiting too long just result in losing or wasting of time and effort

yes there is always two types of investment in bitcoin. one is long term investment and second is short term invest. from short tem investment mean the investment tell halving or daily and weekly based investment from large term investment we mean the investment for months and years. so i can say that as from the present condition it is looking very clear that the future of bitcoin will be quite bright so we can say that long term invest in not bad. you will see the price after halving a rocket fly. therefore it is best to invest in bitcoin for long time.

For me for longterm atleast 3 years or more.
Just hold your bitcoin and then sell it the right time to sell.

Long-term as far as I am concerned would be at least until ~2024 or two more halvings after this one. That would also be ~ 15 years from the genesis block

From halving to halving is the best strategy, so four years is the best term for me, maybe price will be even higher than this year and people will get more profit.

Thought that was pretty good, it's true halving occurred 4 years. Because the cause of halving depends on trade. But I think not all halving will impact the same and it needed a another factor in rising prices. I think if the user bitcoin already many and more from now, the price of the bitcoin can go up whenever.

too much risk if we consider to buy and hold for long term,if we keep bitcoin in 5 years,its unpredict and we have chance to lost some big price,throw back if i keep some bitcoin in 2011,and now have 5 years pass,its good time to open wallet and sell at last week,and if open on today,the profit more less.

I agree. This is actually why I think bitcoin is better to be profited at a short term scheme than of a long term.
Because I've actually seen one pattern of bitcoin's value. I'm still not 100% sure but it is a good profit scheme in a mid-long term run.

i think by long term investment it mean 1 to 2 years of duration. and from short term investment it means the investment for hours and days. some tie i do long term investment and on regular basis i do long term investment i personally like short time investment. i do a little earning from it but do it continuously.

If you take into consideration the amount of time bitcoin has been in existence, 2 years would already be a long term. But once we reach a point where bitcoin is already in its developed stages and the price has sort of stabilized, I think long term could mean 5 or 10 or even 20 years.

 best time for investing long term into btc . maybe 1 year is short time , but in crypto world its a bit long .

Long term for bitcoins, in my opinion, is 6 to 7 years. But given the recent worldwide major changes in the economy bitcoin nowadays is not suggested to invest in longterm. Longterm for bitcoins nowadays is 4 to 6 months time but it must be monitored daily since the price unstbalility  occurs very often with major difference. So it is wise not to keep bitcoins in long term and its best to just trade it and not invest it.

For long term of bitcoin it's hard to predict,The value of bitcoin is changing rapidly every year the early adopters receive the big benefit of this kind of investment but no one knows if the price still go higher every year

Bitcoin opportunity to make cash always happens in around 6 months soo hold for a an high period makes no sense for the most as they wanna be part of the pump and dump, this year bitcoin changed a lot on the last 6 months a lot who didn't sold their coins before has now a unique opportunity to sell them with the new value after halving.

If you ask me 5 years or more is enough to say that it's long term because if you have many bitcoin at least 10 it will be the best range for you to hold your bitcoin because every year the price of bitcoin is continue rising so after 5 years or more i think it's the best to sell all your coins and go home with that great amount of money that you earned.

I think best investment is 5 years, but when i started investment with bitcoin, than i realize when you get profit than sell your bitcoins, it is a good and easy way, but it depend on us, which type we are doing investment if you have good investor than should do long term investment.

If we buy bitcoin will certainly be very beneficial in the long term if prices continue to rise. We will have many advantages if we buy and then store it until the price goes up, it will be able to get a big advantage in the long run. But it is also risky because bitcoin prices always fluctuate so we do not know whether prices will rise or fall.

Actually it depends on how you handle the risks, most investing experts with their books and all often say the longer the investment, the lower is the risk. Not pretty sure if that's truly the case with BTCBTCBTC but I guess it applies.

bitcoin will continue to evolve and I think not only be stable hold at the same price as today. the potential for increased future is quite high. so bitcoin could certainly do that, the longer we invest will be more profitable.

For me not only 5 years, but I usually sell when the time is right and of course also got profit. I don't holding too long, I don't want to take risk because Bitcoin price is unpredictable.

Well i am thinking to hold bitcoin for long terms but i fear that if price drop down because now itself it's price is stable and I think traders are less conscious about bitcoin rather they trade with other altcoins. Those good days of bitcoin had gone now :'(

long term for me is 5 years, seems like i prefer short term investment rather than long term investment, I am just afraid one day the government will banned this coin due to the illegal things that people bought using bitcoin, so i prefer to do short investing in bitcoin

They are going to come from developing countries with high inflation, because it is going to prevent their asset from losing it value since the value of Bitcoin is expected to go up provided everything works according to Satoshi plan

as with all long term investments, we don't know the end result. people can assume the price will go up to much higher levels in the coming years, but assumptions don't have any value. especially here on this forum. if you really plan to hold your coins for 5 years, then you'll either get very happy due to the profits that you have made, or you'll end up being disappointed as the price went even down. be prepared for everything and stay calm.

We need not to worry about government restrictions on bitcoin usage. Because, bitcoin will find its own way of existing irrespect of any government regulations.

Changing your plan of holding bitcoins by anticipating government restrictions is not that much good idea, as only in long term bitcoin will give us very big benefits. Still, 5 years is not short term, still holding for decades is recommended.

but i think that long term investment is much more good than short term investment because i also get a big profit from long term investment and short term investment can not make a good profit so i recommend that long term investment is good .

You can definitely make great profits in the short term. It all depends on how volatile the market is. With enough average volatility, I can make like 10-15% profit per month. But when the price isn't moving a lot, the profits will be much lower though. I mostly skip trading on these days.

I think it depend on the money and financial status of the investor if the investor will have more money and he will not need to withdraw his money for his needs then he can invest for years and if the investor will need his money for his needs then he will put them for shorter time and that will be his long term.

If we talking about the investors, so they always prefer to invest their amount into bitcoins for long term.
Even i am also want to do investment with bitcoin for a long term, but when halving came then i sell my all bitcoins, but now i also started to save my bitcoins for long period of time,   

Yeah you are right that invest you money in bitcoin because bitcoin is very safest investment because bitcoin is very secure currency and never a risky and i hope we can be get a good profit in huge amount in the near future.

How much amount are you has for make a long term investment of bitcoin is bringing a good profit for you rather than long term investment? so totally you're have a big amount on your investment and can make a good profit for you, right?

If you are longing  for  future  profits on  long terms on bitcoin we  should assure ourselves to save up huge  amounts of bitcoin in able to  feel the profits  and would  able  to  be contented to our selves  because  when you do saving a small amount of bitcoin the waiting effort  would  not be  worth at all.

I think it will depend on the user. Is that person that patient to wait for 5 years? I talk about this because I am not. I dont have that much patience to just buy then wait. I want something to work with so that I wont be bored waiting and can make it larger before the 5 years come.

When it comes to Bitcoin even one year could be considered as long term because the price volatility and constant changes. So you have to watch the market all the time. But I don't think Bitcoin will be banned because it's used for illegal activities. Then we should also ban fiat currencies which are also used for illegal things but that wouldn't solve the problem.

No, I'm not ready to accept one year as a long term. In my perspective, long term must be, from one halving to another halving at least. Halving may occur approximately every 3.5 years, so in terms of this measurement we need to hold bitcoins for some 3 to 4 years to be considered as long term investments.

In my case, I prefer to hold bitcoin till I will get retirement. Seriously, right now I do not have any commitment for my bitcoin saving, so hopefully I will be able to hold them for loooong term.

I agree that long term investment often leads to a great result.  But be observant because not 100% of these long-term investments ended perfectly.  Aside from waiting,  how about invest your investment.  I mean, you invested in bitcoin, and let your bitcoin grow by investing it on trading or ICO's of potential coins.

You need to buy good coins with good development team and community support. Otherwise, they will lose value.

investment in bitcoin is very different than traditional investments because most of traditional investments is physical such as gold or property but bitcoin is different because this is digital currency however i think most of traders will not have the exact time how long they will hold their bitcoin and i'm pretty sure if they had already have target sell they will selling their bitcoin immediately because we all know that basic for all investments is how to get very much profit

If I take myself as an example when it comes to investments, then for me long term comes in the 5-10 year range.

Medium term will be in the 2-3 year range, and short term is everything up to more or less 12 months.

But I also agree on the fact that Bitcoin at this point is purely hype and speculation driven where people look to get as much profit as possible in a matter of months.

International investors are investing in BTC mining, not BTC buy/sale. They just set up BTC mining rigs and that's all. Plus real international investors mainly invest through investments in companies shares only, not just buy/sale something.  ;D

I agree, but there is this some short term investment where you can easily get 10% to 300% profit in just a matter of hour right after the ICO closes.  I have seen this cases  a Yobit and other exchanges but just be quick enough to sell all your coins because of this kind of scheme won't lasts long.  I made a mistake by waiting too long until the coins I'm holding become worthless.

yes every one has their own interest, there are so many people who like short term investment as they have good experience in short term investment but other people like long term investment and they always goes for long term investment, for me i also like long term investment as long term investment can really give you good profit and it is less risky than short term investment.

why not do trading rather holding bitcoins?

Because trading involves high risk of losing especially for  newbie on crytos. So holding is the best option for a safe and succesful investment.  You can exect tons of profit if you just hold btc because as we can experiencing now on butcoin price. It is inflating to the moon. So just hold

This is a good reason, better not move anything when you do not know what are the things you need to do.  Lucky are those who decide to hold bitcoin because it is destined to increase in price.  But if it is just an ordinary asset that tends to depreciate in time, you will be at a loss holding it for a long time.

According to Me Long Term Is 7-10 Years But I Don't Prefer to Anyone to Invest in Bitcoin For A Long Period Because Its Just a Crypto Coin Which Will Give You Small Profits If You Invest it in For Long Term......
I Suggest You to Invest In Short Term Trading Because It is Peofitable As Compare to Long Term Trading.....

It is true, even if the Governments restrict it later bitcoin will still be existing and will have it value increased and one can still retrieve his money without the government knowing if really they are serious to find a solution to that restriction. Moreover, experts predict we will get chances to 'use' bitcoins rather selling it. So, long term buyers never need to worry.

if i have much of bitcoin, i will hold it for at least 1 into 2 years from the time of i am buying and i know it will make a big profit. but i am not yet have that much, i will only hold by half of my bitcoin and wait for a good price to sell it and not for 1 years from now on.

government banning bitcoin is different from restriction about using it and is a lot different from regulating bitcoin.

what can happen in the future is the last one "regulating bitcoin usage" and that is actually a good thing. many may consider it a restriction but if you think about it, that can eventually lead to more services and people adopting bitcoin which means bitcoin price will surely be higher than today.

If you see fluctuations in bitcoin prices tend to rise each time, although fluctuating but the price tends to rise. Maybe if it can survive very well invest in bitcoin for 5 years or more. I believe bitcoin will continue to increase so it is very beneficial if we invest bitcoin.

Basically bitcoin is here to have huge prices in long term because each halving will create double the demands. Long term bitcoin buyers are simply targeting that probably. I believe I am too a long term bitcoin buyer/investor because I am saving bitcoins to use after retirement, I take this decision after many people are suggesting about future of bitcoin price levels.

Yes maybe it was a good decision because the use bitcoin after retirement that includes very long term. It was risky, but if prices continue to rise until bitcoin for decades for sure in the end you'll get huge profit. Actually I also want to do things like you to leave some bitcoin on the wallet and keep it for a few years until retirement and then use it, but I still think of several factors. Maybe later I'll follow you if the price of bitcoin according to my own as I wanted.

That's not necessarily true. The block halving just makes sure there is no over-supply. Exactly that was the case just before the most recent block halving in Juli. 25BTC block rewards were too much for the market to handle. Without the block halving, the price would plummet hard. That's where the block halving comes handy. However, 50% less supply doesn't mean 100% demand increase. It just takes away the over-supply, and that's it.


May I ask how many years you have to go before you reach your retirement date? I understand that you put a lot confidence in the future of Bitcoin, but if it's more than 20 years till your retirement date, then it's way too far stretched if you already focus on that.


You should do your own research instead of taking the word of "many" people for granted.

Long term for me could be savings for retirement. It could be 20 years or more. Hopefully that is long enough for bitcoin to be worth enough for me to retire.

Yeah bitcoin is really going to increasing its price very faster non stop and now bitcoin reach its price to 700+$ and bitcoin start to rising its price and  i hope bitcoin will be more rise up its in the nest year and bitcoin holder will be get a big profit from bitcoin in the next year.

No doubt on it, bitcoin continuously is rising up, So it is good for all of us, and It has clear mean that do investment in it more than 1 years, Also i think bitcoin investment need time, i mean, it is time taking work, So always do investment in a long time period, When anyone start bitcoin investment than you already know which time you required in it.

So it is better to just hold the coin.

Long term for me is 10 years, and i believe bitcoin will still survive at that point, and i believe bitcoin will become very valuable, i can see the bright future of bitcoin, I think bitcoin will be shine in the future, seeing from the bitcoin growth is a good idea to hold bitcoin as a long term investment

Choosing a long term must be based on your current age. I guess you will retire in next to 10 years or you will be having very big commitment in next 10 years (like will be starting a new business / you're planning marriage or higher education for your children).

We never need to worry about the survival of bitcoin. Because bitcoin will stay with the human for ever. It is highly recommended to buy bitcoin for long term and hopefully we are all doing the right thing as of now what we could do.

For me the long term bitcoin investor holds his bitcoins for more than 1 year.

It depends of the  bitcoin price,not the time people are holding their bitcoins.

Right. We need to act for a purpose. Long term bitcoin buyers must be having some definite plans because planning for future with investments only possible if you are having a strong belief with bitcoin ecosystem. I am just saving my bitcoins with the long term plans like using them in my local stores when they start accepting (surely I will not cash out my bitcoin nor I will not use bitcoin debit cards).

Long term investment is only works with big amount of the money. Because it will take a long time to rolling your money.
If it big, it's not a problem.

Why is that? I don't believe only long term investments work with tons of money.
You can act the same way whenever you are small or big.

Care to explain your reasoning?

I'll give an example =) most banks all over the world offer higher interest rates for bigger deposits. In my country, for example, you can earn maybe 0.5% interest annually on a savings account for minimum wage, assuming you put in all your salary every month. If you are earning 2 or 3 times min wage, you get about 1% interest.

Now if you're wealthy and can put in 10x minimum wage you can earn up to 4% annually.

So, perhaps if you only have $100 you might think of a short-term investment (buying bitcoin and holding it for a few months to make 10%. But if you have $1 million you won't mind the low-risk $40,000 a year :)

Yes, there are two different factors we need to consider when we are planning to hold bitcoin for long period of times. The first one must be chances of benefits we are going to enjoy to hold bitcoin for longer duration and the second one must be future of that investments.

I believe another third factor will be possible like for what reason we need to hold even the above two factors are completely true.

For sure Bitcoin is the best long term investment considering its continous upward trends, but I think we should not focus on Bitcoin and forget other digital currencies, some digital currencies are a good long term investment as well, Ethereum and some other coins have been growing fast, I prefer to invest in other digital coins in addition to Bitcoin, from the perspective that says: do not put all your eggs in one pasket

For me I guess long term is around 1 year the reason I normally save bitcoins so that I can have more money if the value goes up and try new investment opportunities. I think bitcoin will grow every year as it finally crossed 800 as in like this moment

It seems bitcoin investors are increasing day to day so for long term investment on bitcoin more than 6+ years because the value of the bitcoin will decrease in every four years because every four years there will be bitcoin halving, may be many people think that there will price fall at the time halving. So to increase it's again it will take another 2 years so my plan to wait for 6 years is the best choice.

If I am a buyer, I would choose long term base, in the years goes by the bitcoin will increased in fiat currency. I have read articles about the price of bitcoin. In year of 2013, the price bitcoin dropped from $250 to around $50. The price rose up then dropped down, it's rapidly changed but now it is stable and it will rise up the price. The price of per bitcoin now is around PHP 42000 or $840. So, let's enjoy our life in bitcoin world.

Yeah, in 2013 market was crazy, but thats how bitcoin works, when it drops is always the anticipation of an upcoming rise..

for long term holding i think bitcoin is the best digital currency although some altcoins have potential to growth but still risky for me especially with the current price while bitcoin has raising up in these few days but altcoins market more likely to down trend so in my opinion if your aiming good profit holding bitcoin is more secure rather than the particular altcoins

5 years is not enough for me for something to be considered long term. It must be 10 years+ but since bitcoin is

volatile and the price fluctuates from time to time, A part of me is hesitating to keep it for that long that's why I

dont just keep them but I trade a portion of them from time to time and the profit will go to a different investment.

For me I will consider long term for bitcoin atleast 1year.
I dont want to invest or hold for more than 5years because
Bitcoin is fluctuating and volatile price. So, I would consider
for 1 year only, this gives me a big profit already.

iam hold bitcoin is under 3 month
because my type trading, inday trade
every day is take profit iam selling my balance

good idea to hold your bitcoin for 3 month and i hope your will get a big profit from bitcoin in next month because bitcoin price increasing too much faster and there is a lot of people get profit in high amount form bitcoin .

To see the price value from the last year to this year. Its almost double the value as of now. So you can get value in future, if you hold some big amount bitcoin in the sense. Its fluctuations always lead big pump only in most of the time.

There's no guarantee that holding for just 1 year will give you better returns than 5 years, you just have to be tactical and know when to sell and when to buy. At the moment it's good to buy and hold but sell as soon as you notice a decline of more than 10$

i think long term bitcoin buyers is a range in six month until one years, and we can see that many people which have bitcoin is saving their bitcoin into their wallet from last year although its only small amount including me. but its different if we have mining and we save it in cold wallet and never release our bitcoin until we see the high price.

It is not a good time to buy right now. The rate map looks crazy and can go down anytime. Volatility is high right now so it is better to sell right now coz whatever you get for the btc you sell is definitely high that what you bought for.

Just thinking how many actually in the inital stage of bitcoin when introduced would ave just got it for thew sake of it and forget about it by the time the price rose to some decent level and forget their id or password where they would have stored it. No one in the start would have thought that btc would have come this long way will strong now at 900$+ per btc .

i am also in favour of trading in alt coins, as there are so many alt coins having good potential of increasing its price, therefore trading in alt coins can also give you good profit.

We all know that the bitcoin as a relatively new economic phenomenon is almost impossible to foresee regarding its future behavior in such long term periods (ten or more years). It might be worth millions or also might be displaced by more advanced technologies.

That is why I have no problem with actively spend bitcoins in my ordinary transactions, and I continuously try to move my coins in and out because I don't know what will happen in the future, but I do know the current value of my coins.

I think investors are not certain what that term, and the investor aims to get a price and profit and willing to wait at least a year at least 5 years

Good idea that hold your bitcoin for year or 2 year because bitcoin increasing its price too much faster day to day and there is maximum people are going to buying bitcoin in huge amount and then hold their bitcoin for higher price .

We already know that investors invest on a particular asset because they want huge profit or returns on their investment but not all the time it requiring to wait "at least 5 years" because you can see that same year (2016) bitcoin is below 600$ and now it is very close to 1000$ and that is my point, not all the time you need to wait long because sometimes you just need some patience on holding and keep updating to the news about the coin so you will have a conclusion if you will hold it for another year or just wait for a few months to get 'target profit'.

1 year or so. I don't think I'll have the patience to hold them for +5 years but who knows  ::)

It will depend a lot of the Bitcoin price. If I bought for $500, when it hits $800 and I know the price won't be stable, I sell all, wait the price down again and buy more one time. If I know the price will be stable, I just hold for the next "flash" pump. This way it's possible to make a good profit, the currency volatility allows we to do it, it's amazing.

Yeah holding bitcoin is always depend on the price or market movement.
Even though a short term of holder can gives you a lot of profit. Example, this year we can see that the price in the first quarter of the year is pretty lower than now but now you can see that the price is almost double or nearly tripled so it is not always depend on how long your will hold but depends on how the market moves.

yes i also agree with you  if you have buy bitcoin in lower price and the price goes high then you can sell it with some profit and if you have some good  knowledge about the market and fi you think that the price can go more high then you can wait a little more for high price.

But I think it also depend on the amount of your investment.
If you have a good investment then you can buy bitcoin in any price and if the price does down still you will have no worry to sell it because you can afford to to buy more at lower price.

It is one way to say it , but the market depend on the people who hold the bitcoin , it depends on the demand and how well there are suppliers there are , if people sell there will be less demand which means price goes down , if people hold more demand on it and the higher the price is, it is all connected.

in fact it also depend on the amount you have to invest, if you have good money to invest then you can even hold it for a long time and if some people have little investment then he cannot hold it for a long time and therefore short term investment is the best option for your.

I know some fridents. They keep on buying the bitcoin every months with small amount.

I know some of my friends keeps on buying bitcoin and they are taking up a part on their salary on which it is already lend of r buying bitcoin and saving up and never tend to sell or use it.I could say that if bitcoins price would rose even more in the future then they would really be rich since some of them is already holding decent amounts.

Trust and patience is the most important aspect for any investment..

If I would say that, Ripple altcoin will be $100/Coin in next 5 years (Hard to digest, but it can be or cannot be)

One has to back himself, when knowing that particular coin has good future prospects..

yeah i also never use or sell my bitcoin because bitcoin price will be rise to higher value and i still hold my bitcoin and i hope i will be get a big profit from bitcoin in the future so its good time to hold your bitcoin.

I am in for a minimum of 5 years holding. I was not excited by the rise in price lately as I knew it as all a bubble. Price cannot rise that fast no matter how popular bitcoin is. I also did a few selling and bought at less than 900 USD now, quite profitable trading for the time. I consider bitcoin as the best store value for all my money, yes all of them. No other investment has as a bright future as bitcoin has.

I have been a forex trader for more than three years and I use to talk about long term trading when  I keep open a trade for several weeks or months. But I have also realized that the altcoins trading is very different  so the short, medium and long term parameters may also be different,  tending to prevail the shorter time periods.

Even in terms of bitcoin, a year sounds like a very long time because of the great oscillation that can be observed in that period.

If you hold it longer, you will be rewarded lot.

At least 5+ years and also remember successful trades are not only holding but also buying regularly in order to smooth your potential losses.

I agree to you
We need to put a target span of time
To be able to make a conclusion
About on our investment in bitcoin
And also buying regular can less the risk of losing
Which is the best advice for newbies.

one year is enough for us to hold our Bitcoin. You can sell it and start another holding process by buying Bitcoin when the price is cheap. Many people have succeeded with this way and I doubt that you can fail. Only hold Bitcoin in more than 5 years when you have a good capital.

This is a very long time, real long term period and it's very hard to predict how the bitcoin will stand in that period, anything is possible. One year is enough time to hold and make decent profit and it's much more easier to watch the situation and react if necessary. But it depends also how much coins do you have.

Let's say you bought 1 BTC last january 2014, you would have paid around 620€. One year after, your BTC dropped to less than 200€, not a good deal !

Point is that you only lose when you sell your coins at a price lower than where you bought them at. If you don't sell you don't lose anything. If you know what you do, then in your given example the best option would be to use that €200 price to start buying as many coins as possible to average down the buying price of your initial investment. Only noobs cash out their coins with such insane losses as result....

One year is not enough to get real profit because there is a lot to wait for the real income to come through. If you want real income then it is best to hodl your bitcoin and save some bitcoin as much as you can for 5 years of long term investment and saving and after that you can harvest your ripe investment and taste that great profit by just doing nothing except saving ::).

Holding a Bitcoin for a 5 year term can guarantee you very very good returns and hold it for more time for exceptional returns

In 2014 everybody knew bitcoin was going to go down all year, sorry but those who bought at 600+ in 2014 needed to do more research or hear their feelings before purchasing... even at 400 usd it looked still expensive to me.

geez its too long for me too hold bitcoin but i am sure it will give best result and will make us make big money, but i think if i can make it for at least in one or two years, then i will do for one or two years and i will save the other bitcoin for five year. i don't know if i can wait until five year or not because for now i don't have main job and only work with bitcoin but if i have other main job, then i am sure i can hold it in more than two years.

To me though bitcoin and crypto currencies as money is at its infancy compared to conventional fiat and bank system. 2 years long terms investment might not be realistic. The historical value of bitcoin shown continuous price upward movement from 2008 till date so to me anything from  five years upward like other assets is worthwhile.

Yes its very very long wait and you will need a long patience and strong discipline into yourself because if you dont have these traits you will sell off your bitcoin on shorter periods of time when the price tends to increase. Thats why long term and your patience would really be worth when price of it would come to its peak.

Investing bitcoin in long years is sure profit. Bitcoin is high up to 100% per year so if you invest it in 5 years your capital will be times to five,,

I think its evident enough that people who invested on a long term basis while bitcoins was still in the startup financing stage trading below $10 are now enjoying profits but if you are a daily trader you can still make more profit in a short time frame, though 5years is a long time to wait.

5 year investing time is too long for me so that will be enough. But that is for different investment not with bitcoin. Here I am buying and selling trying to enlarge the capital that I have deposited.
It started when I want to have more knowledge with it. Thinking there is real profit and have experienced it once I just continued it up until now, somehow it made profit. The losses will always be there also.

what do you mean by "startup financing stage"?! bitcoin never had something like that. I think you are comparing it with altcoins with ICO!
bitcoin was released and from day one was supposed to be used as a p2p digital cash first as it is mentioned in the white paper too. and it was released this way and everyone could use it and mine it from those days.

and also you don't have to be from those "early adopters" to make profit. you can still get in and make profit. I got in not so long ago and I have made a very good profit.

this is an example for some visual aid:
https://i.imgur.com/9UZnkyJ.jpg

You really cannot predict the long term future of bitcoin .But looking at the distant future it is bright and the chances of another bubble and a bull is there and it all depends upon the current development and approval of ETF and if that is approved the price might peak to new levels .

Cryptocurrency or a blockchain is technology which is still in the beta mode so any activity or project associated with it should be considered as an experiment. Thus any investment is also a high-risk investment and as a rule of thumb, high risk gives high returns. Any investment irrespective of short term or long term is a high-risk investment when it comes to cryptocurrencies.

This refers only for the investors who buy bitcoin then hold it for a long terms it depends on them on how many years. But if you have a strong belief with it, you will surely get the reward of your fruit of labor someday.

Certainly, as you believe that the market would perform very well, it would certainly helps you to have a positive thinking which is the characteristic of a successful investors wether it is online or not.

A long term Bitcoin investment for me could be as little as 10 years or as long as 30 years or possibly more. In 30 years, if Bitcoin survives, it could be worth $50,000 to $100,000 per Bitcoin.

I would only invest long term in them because I believe that the opportunity for gain is far greater than the risk of loss in more of a long-term setting. It's a roller coaster of ups and downs in the short term. Just buy them and hold onto them for about 5-9 years (This is just my opinion because the algorithm that controls the supply is set to cut in half 3 times within the next 9 years)

Yes long term is always the best because of its opportunity since there is a halving event where it lessen the supply of bitcoin and help the price to be even more expensive than before. Buying a lot of bitcoin now is a good idea and not a loss because you can double or even triple that capital just after a few years of holding.

If indeed bitcoin can last up to 30 years surely it would be great. And if someone invests during it would be very profitable and will become rich. I do not know whether bitcoin could survive for it or not, but investment in bitcoin for 30 years maybe worth trying. It could be for retirement savings. But I think the average investor bitcoin does not invest during it, I think they are investing around 5 years like a investment in general. It was a good time I think.

But keep in mind that over 10 years, the prediction actually become like impossible. For the other thing, if it survives, the price between $10,000 and $50,000 would not be a surprise.

I dont think Bitcoin will survive more than 10 years if the situation continue like this and the possible prediction of price at that time will not be more than 50000$. Its on the 16mil mark right now and the maximum is 21mil as everyone know so that 5-10 years max.

That scenario is a pointer to the fact that long term Bitcoin investment is not necessarily determined by length of time, but by the positive difference between the current price and price at the time of purchase. Evidently the technology is still evolving and the right thing to do is not to conclude all too soon what the future holds for something that is still taking shape. To that effect, following the developments in the market and the industry would serve as better guide to what decisions an investor takes.

bitcoin is very much popular and useful currency and i am sure bitcoin will be survive forever because a huge number of people are buying bitcoin and they are use bitcoin as their regular currency so we can not say that bitcoin will be die.

It depends on the targets you set for yourself. If your goal is to buy at $1000 and to sell at $2000 where you approach it as a long term investment, then it can be seen as such until your goal is met. If the price happens to hit $2000 6 months later, your goal is met and thus you can close your position. From there a planned long term investment indeed doesn't mean it's really long term.

For me personally I don't really focus on targets at this point, but put confidence in what Bitcoin has to offer in the long term. I make sure I benefit from short term fluctuations to increase the number of coins that I have, while on the other side I keep my cold wallet coins until I see prices of at least $10,000 per coin. And then I will just cash out a certain portion, definitely not everything. I want to remain holding a good portion of my wealth in Bitcoin.

how can you say that to me i think bitcoin will continue to survive for  thousands of years. i think there is nothing wrong to the future of bitcoin and bitcoin is really trading in a very good way and hope that it will continue for a long long time.

Come on man, thousand of years for bitcoin is too much. Bitcoin has a limited supply and always remember that it has a halving event where its supply is decreasing and the mining difficulty is increasing so a thousand years for bitcoin to survive is just like a fantasy. Even hundred years for bitcoin is still too much. Be realistic and don't expect too much in bitcoin.

Actually the hold of bitcoin by anyone for the year is a matter to hold and sell Because the buy and sell for small time or one year even may not give the big change it is because the net gain in the stability in the price of the bitcoin can be see after 3-4 years , so here most of the big bitcoiners hold Thier bitcoin for long times , and mostly hold for 3 years atleast ( this is my opinion to get Profit that I seen in my life )

iam hold bitcoin longterm can't reach 5 year
maximum hold bitcoin, only one year, but iam type trading inday trade, because my earn from trading to life, my trade my life
so every day or every week i must get profit and earn

Mathematically the mining process of all bitcoins (100% of them, 21 million bitcoins) will end between the years, 2135-2145. But, this is not important. If you ask why, let's look at this below:

in 2028, 98.4% of total bitcoins,
in 2032, 99.2% of total bitcoins,
in 2036, 99.6% of total bitcoins,
in 2040, 99.8% of total bitcoins,
in 2044, 99.9% of total bitcoins,
in 2048, 99.95% of total bitcoins will have mined by us.

You might get a lot of people that say less than 5 years but in reality regardless of the currency real profit only comes after at least 5 years and I would say 10.

Three years basically not holding money, 6 is not even enough to consider saving. You could probably make some profit after 3 years if there wasn’t a temporary decline but on average if you want your investment to be worthwhile IMHO you should wait at least 5 and ideally at least 10 years.

There is no point in believing that bitcoin is something eternal, indestructable.
The supply of 21 mil BTC does not neccesarily means that all people on the world will kill the other human being just to get a piece of a cake.
Indeed it is limited, but there is no reason why bitcoin cannot be beaten by some altcoin.

For now, it is mostly about how bitcoin is recognized.
Many people have heard about this specified cryptocurrency, but not about the others, but in 10 years, the most society may know what cryptocurrencies are, so it will be about which cryptocurrency has the best technology to offer.

Personally, I think that bitcoin might be beaten by more anonymous currency, which will provide very fast confirmations and also small fees to reduce the costs of transactions.

For me I think it depend on the money and financial status of the investor if the investor will have more money and he will not need to withdraw his money for his needs then he can invest for years and if the investor will need his money for his needs then he will put them for shorter time and that will be his long term

In my opinion, long term bitcoin buyers or investor rather are about  five to ten years in the business. A minimum of five years could already be considered as long term. The longer you wait, the higher profit you’d have.

I am 6 month year old in active in bitcoin price watching and trading and the bitcoin price is making unlimited new high price pump and this is proof of the great valuable demand of the bitcoin

Hello there, my plan is to invest all the money I'm going to earn on 2018 by crypto and hold as long as I can.