Bitcoin Forum

I would like to say hello first off, I am new to these forums as a member, but I do often enjoy browsing on my lunch break.

I see a lot of people like to invest in other coins in particular IPO/ICO. But with the volatility of Bitcoin is this not the best investment choice in itself? Keeping your Bitcoins which have a higher value and can fluctuate more? Especially with the recent halving, I can only see the value going up.

Do you see any need to invest elsewhere or is it greedy? What are your thoughts on this?

So many type of investment of bitcoin that really good for grow up our money but we have to be carefull with a scam. before You investing your money in ICO/IPO you have to search information about it, just make sure that is not a scam. holding Bitcoin in a long term is good but it take a long time to get profit, but if you have computer skill you can earn so many income in bitcoin by work for it.

very difficult to obtain such investment. especially when we are talking about bitcoin. but if you dare to take steps to invest in altcoin, then it would be quite beneficial to you. today many altcoin which has good prospects, you could be one part of the investment.

there's certainly money to be made in alts. I absolutely would not put anything into an ico. buy something on the open market, not hyped up junk. check how many icos were the second coming and now are less than the ico price.

let other saps take the initial hit and see what the market makes of something once it's properly for sale.

Holding bitcoins are for sure safest investment out there. There was a lot of scammers for example bee & smth, many pyramid schemes, many mining contracts scams etc. List is so long...
I wouldn't say gambling is investment either.

Indeed, I completely agree with this.

I am going to hold my Bitcoin, I see it as a long term investment.

Holding bitcoin is great and safe investment and it is great for a long term investment, but alt coins also can be profitable and sometimes can be more profitable than bitcoin, but the price volatile make them into a quite risky investment and most people not suggested it because there were so many scam from alt coin developer, so if you don't want any big risk just hold on to bitcoin

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Yes, you're right, the people realize if the project is the good way in this time for doubling or multiplying their money because the ico of ipo are offering new ideas and I think soon a lot of the altcoin are got their pump and stabilization into their high place.
I thought the people are already in the competition for growing their money more and more, I can't say if that is greedy everyone needs money every time.

Bitcoin officially exist as an experiment, so still it is "high risk" investment. Rest depends from your time, experience and skills.
If you are new in cryptoworld, the best option for you will be just buy&hold.

The main negative is that you would need a substantial amount of Bitcoin to earn considerable profit from holding. However, it is a a safe method to make profit, even if it is in small amounts.  I mean there is no chance of you losing it to scam. Be careful when investing in gambling sites and the like. There could be widespread scam. However, when you hold Bitcoin you would need to analyse trends in order to gain the maximum profit. If you don't you may even end up losing BTC.

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I think so. If you don't have much knowledge about trading, hold BTCs is the best thing to do. Investiments would be good also, but almost all of them are scam schemes like ponzis and hyips. But if you don't want to just hold your coins on the wallet, you can try invest on casino bankroll. I'm trying this right now as a test. Don't know yet how profitable it will be.

I absolutely agree with you. At present, holding bitcoin is the most efficient way to gain profit. As you can see, bitcoin which is stored in your wallet is safe and sound, and you do not have to worry about any scam investing project. And currently, the bitcoin's price is increasing steadily which mean if it continues to rise, you will earn a lot of cash

Yes I would definitely buy and hold bitcoin, that is what I did when the price was at $300 and look at me now! 8)

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Hello and welcome to our forum!
You asked some good questions. Many people here like to trade this is true.
And depending on your skills you might wanna take the risk and speculate with some altcoins as well.
This is also a question of money of course. Not everybody has some affordable money to lose and therefore only puts a bit as an investment into Bitcoin.
And imo this could be enough when you are convinced that Bitcoin will rise much more in terms of it's value in the future.And I think we all here believe that. So yes trading/speculating with altcoins is mostly done to acumulate more Bitcoin. The overwhelming majority of altcoin in my personal opinion will not have any significance in the future. And a lot of them are scams or are highly manipulated by pump and dump groups, which of course increases your risk dealing with it.

Holding could definitely work but don't expect to make profit between one night and another , It's for the long term , the more you buy , the more profit you will make when It rise , so keep buying and holding in the same time. Investing in ICOs & IPOs wouldn't hurt either, just make sure to make some research and not invest anywhere , most of the time price become x2 or x3 (the lowest) after ICO so making profit shouldn't be hard , once you earn , sell again and get BTC instead.

rather than to invest on IPO/ICO, i am prefer to invest in bitcoin itself because we don't know how growth will be that IPO/ICO. its because i am too afraid to make investment right now and i have bad experience with this kind investment. so invest in bitcoin is more safe than any investment program out there and we can manage how much we should invest.

Yes I agree that holding bitcoins is the always best way of investment to get a profit by bitcoins. You need to spare little amount from your receiving every week's payment. But this will provide huge profit in future.

there is always not profitable to hold bitcoin for profit .
because if we buy bitcoin at high price and then this will result into the down of price of bitcoin ( probably more chance ) .
in this way yo will get loss .
but if you will buy at very low price then hold for long time then you will got profit .

it only depends on when you are going to buy bitcoin. for example if you look at the history there have been times that price has gone up in a bubble and if you have bought at those times you would be in a loss (eg $1100 and this year's $780)

but if you buy when the price is low or at least on the way up, then yes it is good and is going to go only up!

It is always adviced by many not to put all eggs in same basket and i also think same and will advise you to diversify your investment. Bitcoin price can go both way but uptrend is quite strong right now so many are speculating to see new all time high price which can happen but also be aware and updated regarding recent bitcoin related events so that you can sell your bitcoins when market is getting some heavy dumps.

these type of investment is more like a gamble, and most of the time end up losing more.


the halving is not recent.
the fluctuations and volatility is not what makes bitcoin good investment.

instead it is the potential that bitcoin has to become a good and popular coin as it is growing in adoption and its price rising.


it depends on how much money you want to invest. if you have a small amount choose one investment but if you have more money then it is best if you diversify.

Sometimes yes' bitcoin is really good investment when you just holding them good profit when the bitcoin price really increase that fast and for now as we can see in every 24 hours bitcoin is increase for +4$ or maybe more in just 24 hours past bitcoin really increase and it will be on $700 soon.

Whether Bitcoin is experiencing volatility or not, it's always a wise thing to avoid IPO/ICO's as 95% of them are only used to fill the pockets of greedy criminals. Because that's exactly what they are as they commit fraudulent activities.


Simply holding your coins is in my point of view the best investment you can possibly make. Benefits of it are that you fully own what you have, and thus don't rely on whether or not the investment you chose for works out as planned. Everthing is in your hands with holding Bitcoin.


I stopped with investing in altcoins and other things back in 2014 as I was realizing it was not the right thing to do for me. I want to keep everything I do in my own hands and control. From that moment I solely focused my activities at trading BTC only. And let me tell you something, it feels fantastic.

People looking for ways to invest their coins make their decisions purely based on greed. And exactly that will break them up at some point. It will be an expensive lesson for sure.

You are just speculating bitcoin investment for short term basis. But, I believe in bitcoin as a best investment type when we are ready to hold for longer haul.

Bitcoin may reach $700 before end of this October and $1000 before end of this year whereas before next halving it may worth millions. I believe no other investment has potential to return its investors millions even in long haul. Best investment is just holding bitcoin, but for longer time.

No, it is not the best, or everyone would be doing it. Returns might not sound as marvelous as other systems, but this one is sure and will never let you down.

holding bitcoin is the best investment for now and you can sell it in every price you want for now or maybe you want to wait for another high price because i think the price will be gets up for tomorrow.

Why not holding it better than trading???
Holding might not give you returns to and fro, but you need patience and will get something for sure if you hodl...
Trading is a good thing, but involves a lot of risk, so it is better sitting with your coins and waiting for your goals to be achieved instead of playing in the dark...

Price of bitcoin will always remain volatile if marketcap of bitcoin doesn't get insanely high in future. Price will be easily manipulated by few milionaires due to low marketcap bitcoin have which will cause several high price dumps/pumps within short period of time.

Its better to always trade bitcoin rather than just holding bitcoins however in big price pumps or dumps rally like right now, better to do nothing and just watch your total holdings in terms of fiat increasing with each pumps in bitcoin price.

I agree with your statement about the potential of Bitcoin. Potential is higher because of the people that use it and the recognition it has also. Really, In my opinion of course what makes a great coin/currency is its simplicity to use. Bitcoin does this and a lot of other coins seem to forget this aspect.

Hey there, what I believe is that bagholding anything isn't smart. There will always be things that exceed bitcoin both technologically and in popularity. What you need to do is to be smart and invest smart. For example if an altcoin is dying, then you wouldn't baghold would you ;) Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, just like all altcoins are.

I had no experience trading anything when I first got into Bitcoin and simply just hodling has worked out pretty well for me. But then again, I bought most of my bitcoins in the $7-$12 range so I was lucky to have found such value. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say. If hypothetically I were to have found out about bitcoin only just today, I would prolly have to include more active and aggressive trading to my strategy for growing my bitcoin hodlings.

It depends. Is it the best investment while something else is going up by double an hour? Probably not. Is it the best investment while everything else is going down but it's going up? Yes.

Yeah and holding is not the best way to make profits from it, as if you only hold and never sell then you will never make profits from it and I genuinely feel that using them in trading is the best way to grow your coins and also to make regular profits as holding will give you profits only if price goes higher in future.

Others have already said this, but Bitcoin is definitely the safest of all other coins. If you are looking to buy and hodl, that is.

Don't take a loan to do that, instead just put 5-10% of your income into Bitcoin every month.

Bonus points if you add your money into Bitcoin when the price is at its lowest.

Putting some part of your income in bitcoin on regular basis is a good investment to make but the current price cannot be treated as an lowest price as most of the users will consider it has an high price for making an investment and to make profits only from holding you need to have higher amount of coins in your wallet.

all i know is that when you invest in bitcoin you can be sure that your money is in a safe place as long as you have a safe wallet (for example  a paper wallet) and you can be sure that bitcoin price will go up and even if it starts falling tomorrow the price will be higher lets say a year from now.

At this point i can agree to that because we all know that bitcoin price is in an "increase in price in the future trend".  So investing to bitcoin at this point is one of the good investment move.  But in my opinion there is better way of taking profit with bitcoins.  This is invest your investment method.  By doing this you are about to multiply your investment.  Though this is a bit risky but if you are succesful, this strategy is most rewarding.

There are advantages to continuously holding Bitcoin on-chain in cold storage, other than price speculation. Every time you transfer your Bitcoins, trade them, or have them on a website such as an exchange, you are paying fees as well as taking the risk that you lose all of your Bitcoins due to a mistake, a hack, a thief, a collapsing exchange, or a government seizure.

there is just small fees and its fine compare with our profit in trading. and if you don't want to make any fee, then you can still hold it in your cold storage wallet and selling when you think the price is good for you.

and for the hacking is depending on that market exchanges to secure the website and make their members safe and secure when they are inside the website.

Volatility can go both ways, of course, and yeah bitcoin is volatile as hell.  Altcoins on the other hand will murder you in your sleep.  You wake up from that catnap and your pet shitcoin has dropped all the way to 1 sat.  I've seen it happen.  I wouldn't invest in anything other than bitcoin at the moment.  The other coins are too shitty and too risky.

I did not understand the bolded part above, and I'm not sure what you want to do in a volatile market.  Some people are shorting bitcoin right now, thinking it's risen too high too fast.  I would not rule that out completely.

I think that it isn't the best investment just holding your bitcoin because there may be something else that is way better and that suits your investment style more. You might not get the most out of bagholding bitcoins, to put it simply.

Holding is better than investing on suspicious site, it sometime will run away your coin.
Holding is need safe wallet too, it's very necessary and keep your device clean from any suspicious site/software which contain malware.
I do hold my btc right now, it's clearly defined investment.

I dont think the best investment is holding my bitcoin, i think it would be buying bitcoins, and the strategy would be holding it for a very long time or do daytrades to multiply the holdings while waiting for the set price of selling.  Because in my opinion holding bitcoins is not an investment but rather a strategy after buying bitcoin as an investment.

Holding bitcoin is not the best investment but holding bitcoin is the safest investment out there. It will stay away you from programme that has big risks, ponzis and to make you stay away from scammers.

I choose to trade. because trading can make us gain more profits than doing holding bitcoin.

Not Really You can't make money all the time from trading some times you make money some times you lose money.Investing in bitcoin i think you won't find anything better than this.

Bitcoin will hit $1k before the end of this word.Market is very strong that's why possibility of dump is very low.But don't invest if you can't afford to lose your money.

It is right, that many peoples are doing investment, But also you should see many peoples are afraid of scammers, because we all know that investment is best way in bitcoin, but the risky way is that you can't trust on anyone. So i have a one solution, that just hold your bitcoins, and when you see now bitcoin is going high, and if you sell it than it surely give you profit, than should sell them, like now bitcoin has a good price. If i sell my bitcoins than definitely they give me good profit.

That is not holding bitcoins , that is trading bitcoins.  And holding is not an investment it is a strategy on how you will earn a profit in an investment.  Actually a part of a trading strategy.  Holding bitcoins until it meets my selling price and buy bitcoin if it meets my buying price.  That is trading and holding is a part of it.

I can agree about this, I think that holding is a good thing and that we can do it on a easy method that is safe and also good to do due to the fact it has a great future.
Holding the bitcoin is a good way because of the future!

you're right, I also prefer trading from the store bitcoin. but I think it's also true, that hold bitcoin in a long time is the best way of investing, especially at this time. even so, it would be very difficult, because if you hold bitcoin in significant amounts, you'll want to immediately redeem it

We don't know how bitcoin will scale in the future. Financial and cryptocurrency experts generally agree that bitcoin has the biggest potential to be much more expensive.
It happened before Bitcoin price skyrocketed from $125 USD to over $1000 USD within a few months.

But...

- Bitcoin is still experimental payment system and "first edition" of cryptocurrency, a one of kind phenomena.
- Bitcoin is widely susceptible to mob mentality. That is why we see dramatic price shifts after negative news like exchange hack, bitcoin legislation etc.
- Bitcoin is hated by current economic establishment: Wall Street, Banks, Governments...

If you want to become rich then holding bitcoin may be a good idea (it certainly is stupid not to buy at least 1 BTC), but you have zero guarantee that price will skyrocket again and where it will happen.

If you see that the IPO/ICO have solid devs and will be profitable in the future, it is okay to invest in it. It is not greediness to seek and invest on different platforms. I think it is a must to invest on different coins not only on bitcoin. As long as you know that the coins you are investing have good foundation and you can invest on it for long term just like you would do with bitcoin.

There is a chance that investing and holding with the bitcoin is good and I think it is but we cannot predict this also because the future of the bitcoin is unpredictable, no one knows what will happen with the bitcoin so it can be good but also bad.

in my opinion,holding bitcoin isn't the best investments, but it is a safer investment than other investment. because the best investments can make a bigger profit and not have to wait for a long time. but certainly all of that there is a great risk. like when we invest in ICO or altcoin. but the gains will be bigger than just hold your bitcoin.

There are more concerns that I mentioned than just fees, which is the least of those concerns.

I prefer to hold most of my bitcoins and use just a fraction of them to trade altcoins with leverage. It is far easier than trading BTC/USD and it is less risky and I even make better trades with the smaller amounts. After I make my altcoin profit, I divy up the profit between bitcoin re-investments and cash withdrawals (mostly cash these days).

ofcourse , holding the bitcoin is also a best way to investment but i think when you starts to hold bitcoin for long time then you need to  buy bitcoin at the price when it is at very low rate or profit then this will result into free of tensi of downed price .

Right now it is best investment just to keep holding as the current bullish indicators didn't finish. There are lot of news and analysis which tells us we may see new all time high in coming months. Bitcoin looks very stable and in very good position so instead of taking any further action better just keep holding.

I don't have much trust if any in altcoins either. They tend to go south overnight, never had any luch with any one of them

Best holding policy is hold the bitcoin when the price is low and sell out some bitcoins when the price is high to make some profit. If you long term view about holding better hold your every penny of the bitcoin and utilize it on future.

Yeah its better to sell them when its allowing you to make profits instead of holding them too long as you never know what future holds for us but if we sell at higher price then it can give us profits and we can buy them again when price falls in future and I think that is the best way to play with bitcoins.

Some of them are just turned to be scams so you just need to look over for the good alt coins and while you are holding some alt coins.

Then you should be holding some bitcoins too, because this is the best investment that you can ever get into bitcoins.

Without doing some hard efforts you have a chance of earning some decent profit as the price increases.

I suggest to to both but if you're planning to invest in alts, do it only for a short term cause it is more risky than bitcoin. You should do some research on what coin you will choose. Well you can also do some long term investment in an alts,, It can also be profitable if you choose the right coin.  The only problem is it is common for the alts dev to run away if their proj is not going well.

On the other hand  bitcoin is good for long term investment cause it as already proven profitable as the price increases rapidly each year.

IMHO, the reason I am looking into investing other coins along with Bitcoin is to see other projects create new ideas and support to society.  It is amazing how new innovations are coming out of the impact of Bitcoin especially blockchain platforms and initiatives.  I looked through all the altcoin projects back in August to create a deduction of which one I would start my foot into investing altcoins.  Don't get me wrong, there are so many projects coming out, but I am limited on funding to where I should start prior to believing in only holding Bitcoin.  I might expand the diversity of portfolio in the future.  As of now, it is sort of experimental for me.

this has proven to be true, and bitcoin has so far been the best investment for me because i have been holding it for about a year, a year and a half and price has been going up ever since making me richer and richer with every rise :)

The best investment is holding your bitcoins in my eyes because its profitable and you can make a lot of money with it without any doubts.
Its safe and very very profitable.

Its better to hold your bitcoin but its up to you. If you want quick money, buy some altcoin and sell it when the price rises. But holding your bitcoins is more safer and stronger than any other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin also is the most trusted by many people. Maybe will drop a big fall but it can still rise because many people are supporting bitcoin.

i am mainly investing in bitcoin to buy and holdit for a long time as my main investment which is the majority of my money also.

but for additional earning possibility what i do is that i trade altcoins. i never invest in ICO and any other super high risk investment like that but but i only do it with the altcoins themselves and sell soon.

That's the better way of making profit but bitcoin has the possibilities of increasing much than decreasing in price. For this reason users who expect small profit could go with long time holding. Also as our bitcoins were in our own hands we doesn't need to panic.

The truth is no one will know for sure if holding bitcoin will always be profitable - bitcoin is technical and economical precedent. We have no idea how it will scale.
We can only base our information on what already happened - so far bitcoin holding works. Will it work in the future and you will gain high profits again? Maybe.

Word of advice - don't put all your money in bitcoin and especially in other cryptocurrencies.

IMO holding your bitcoin is better than keeping it at your bank. At least, bitcoin could earn u some money.

Wheter is it the best or not, the time will tell, but it's definetely good thing to keep at least some of your Bitcoins long term. This is the way to ensure some funds for the future. And always when the price dropps it's the good time for buying. Just be sure that you keep your coins secured.

Well we cannot really tell that, and how about if there's somethibg bad happen just like those bitfinnex hacking issue?  Surely you will also dump your bitcoin if you will see its slowly soaring down,  and im sure that many people doing some short trades at this moment and grabbing the merely down and ups of bitcoins prices, so i wonder how far it will go, but for now let see if the price up will continue to soar or it will stop and profits will soar down also.

You asked right question is it holding enough or we are greedy. I work for some money, and that simply is jot enough for me. Bitcoin provide me extra income and that is what I need in this moment, I don't have time to wait. And for just holding and in long term is something that I can't afford to myself.
Save who have more then enough, even with bitcoins I can't buy and pay all necessary things for month and have some fun, or go to sea, some vocation I don't know. And I'm young I wish to enjoy now, not one day when I'm old and my dick doesn't rising in the morning.

Bitcoin will provide a hedge against stock market crashes and economic instability, I would hold at least 50% in cold storage  if I were you because global markets are becoming increasingly dangerous and economists are predicting a lot of disaster in the future .... You can invest some in shitcoins if you want to gamble but none of these are as safe as bitcoin imo

Holding some of them for the future can be a good idea but holding all of them without spending or selling them is the worst thing to do with bitcoins as there is no guarantee that we will see only higher price in future and if it falls then holding will bring loss for us, so its always good to sell them when price goes higher and secure the profits.

you will secure less than you could have if you simply did nothing
in 2020 or 2025 the price will be well in excess of $10,000
this is just the beginning .... THIS IS GENTLEMEN !

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What you said is true that this is just an beginning and we will see much higher price of bitcoins in future but not everyone can afford to hold their coins for a long term, people who needs money will prefer to sell them when price goes higher, and holding is only possible for those who have excess amount of money saved in bitcoins.

if you are doing it as a job which means you are trading, that is the only case that you are going to need that money you put in.
but when you call it investment, it means that you did not need that money. or at least it was an amount of money that you are not using in the immediate future. so you wouldn't need that money even if it stays for a couple of years in bitcoin.

Very correct,  only those  people  who dont need  money  anymore  would surely keep all those  bitcoins that they earn  but for those  people  who  rely fully on bitcoin earning would surely cash out and spend it actively their bitcoin  because  they  need  to  do  it   in  order  to  live .

i guess it depends on whether you buy bitcoins as an investment
or whether bitcoin is your actual job ....

i store all the wealth i  get in bitcoins ,whether the price is $1 or current prices today

it matters not to me ,if i put in a bank my cash would erode due to yearly inflation being several times
higher than interest rates so i would get about 4% POORER every year ......

if i put it in btc .........well ,you know the rest ;)

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Yeah people who are full time into bitcoins will surely keep on selling their coins at regular intervals as they need money for living and to take care of their daily needs, but for those who treat bitcoins only as a pure investment will never sell their coins in short term and will prefer to hold them in long run.

Holding bitcoins is very good and doing it right now for a long term is even better, the bitcoin simply just has such a good future a head these days, it will be more than worth it.

yeah, it has been a very good run up until now and i don't see any reason why this has to change for the future.

the future is also going to be just rises because bitcoin is not yet at its full potential and every day we are getting closer to a little bit of more of bitcoin potential.

Brother, you gon' lose yo shirt if you buy them poopy ass shitcoins, and that's a fact.   Just buy yourself some bitcoin and be like a hen keepin its egg warm.  Jess sit on it till it hatches, then yoube glad you did.   Mmmm hm.

It is also my lunch break here in my office and if you are going to invest your bitcoin into ICO you need to read the concenquences there and you need to choose a good one. There are some good icos now in the marketplace you can see tbhere and read the details carefuly before you do investment.

Technically it has the potential of growing tenfold or even a hundred times. But that will happen only if it's adoption as a currency/digital asset continues to grow and take hold.

and the adoption is growing!
you can compare the number of transactions per day, or per hour with 6 months ago and a year ago and so on, and you can clearly see the rapid growth that bitcoin had over the years. and that is just the simplest way of seeing this. you can also see the number of wallets that are created on online wallets sites, the number of services that started using bitcoin last year and so on.

Holdig your Bitcoin is best but instead, investing it in Altcoins for trading in short term basis is much better because you can gain more profits from Altcoins.

You can make good profits from altcoins only if you choose the right coin at the right time or else its an risky affair, as the life of altcoins is not too long and it can disappear at any time, and if you want to make good profits from it then  you cannot afford to miss the pumps and dumps in order to make quick profits.

Choosing the right altcoin is exactly where the main problem is focused at. Nowadays altcoins are being launched in a professional way with great white papers, top notch website, somewhat decent features. These coins mostly get seen by certain people as very interesting projects, while in fact it's nothing more than another scam coin. It's a gamble where you invest your money in. You either end up making great profits, or you'll walk out with a bag full of worthless coins.

There are some altcoins that exists since long time, so if we invest in it then chances of making loss is very less but to make profits from it you need to wait for a long time and its really difficult to trust any newly launch coins as most of them turn out to be scam coins which may disappear suddenly.

Even coins that have been in the market for years require you to have a good amount of luck. If you buy yourself into such an altcoin, then you are hoping for a pump that will bring you into the profits. Hoping that something will happen doesn't have any value. There is no way that you can get a certain indication of what the coin in question will do. It again comes to the point that it's basically a gamble. Risks are simply too high.

Agreed, there is no guarantee that you will be making profits in trading altcoins as risk will always be a part and parcel in trading and even if certain coins are alive since long time doesn't mean that it will bring only profits for you and for me trading is same like gambling where everything is dependent on luck.

That's a risky, you can earn 500% after a year or more with altcoins if you bet in a solid one or you can grow slowly your bitcoins.

Isn't easy to predict the best strategy here, maybe spliting the money in 2 or more strategys can be the best option.

Holding some bitcoin for the long term may be the best way to make money. I try to supplement that by trading on the short term peaks and valleys in the price.

Well, that is the risk with altcoins and if you are going to invest in them then you will have to learn to live with that, holding only bitcoin is great for those that want lesser risk since its the strongest crypto, for those who want more profits then investing in altcoins is the way to go.

i think if holding long time bitcoin is not good
because bitcoin price is and range wave price is slow move
example in 2013 bitcoin price 1000 dollar, and you buy and hold until now you still lost your money not profit
is good is inday trading, shortem trade, not longterm

Btc was only $1000 due to a mt gox manipulation of the price and it was only that high for a couple of weeks

History has proven that buy and hold is a good strategy if you take the time to actually check

I sure not long time again the price reach $1000. I'm not expert in trading or others speculation, as my experiences a week ago I was got profit more than 300% about a year because I hold bitcoin but I still hold and wait for best price.

I sure not long time again the price reach $1000. I'm not expert in trading or others speculation, as my experiences a week ago I was got profit more than 300% about a year because I hold bitcoin but I still hold and wait for best price.

Not all the time, but I would agree that it's one of the best investments that I have made so far and I'm willing to risk more for me to gain more. It's really not that difficult or hard to gain money just by buying bitcoins because it happens naturally and automatically however, it's not for the faint of heart since price swings happen very commonly; a price increase might turn into a great depression or price decrease any moment.

Agree not all the time since bitcoin has bad down fall flactuations and we might gonna lose if we shaken up and sell if the downfall well start to vain us, but actually bitcoin would be good in longterm investment since it is proven that bitcoin really rising up when theres a downfall happen and if we can wait for that to be happen we would provably lose our money interms of downfull times occur, and thats the beauty of bitcoins since it always surprise us for its survival growth.

I'm not an expert, but if you ask me, I could say that this is one of the safest choices. The risk surely is much higher by investing in ICOs/IPOs, as you mentioned.

possible for a beginner hold bitcoin is a very nice way. you can hold bitcoin while collecting it, and it also can you think of as a way of investment, because the price of bitcoin is always unstable. This time bticoin prices are rising, because of the close end of the year and so many use bitcoin for now, so take advantage of this moment to hold bitcoin that you have with an investment destination

You cannot afford to simply hold them without doing anything to it, but as everyone is expecting that price will go higher by the end of the next month so it would be good to hold them without taking any risky of investing it anywhere and if price doesn't goes higher then you can think of alternatives like trade and investments.

Holding Bitcoin is probably the safest possible investment you can make. If you think the otherwise just because some noobs bought themselves some +$1000 coins, then you really have no clue about how investors with common sense and actual experience are working. Simple thing - smart people have bought their coins for a few hundred at most, and sold at +$1000 prices, while noobs thought exactly that price would be a decent investment. Do you see the difference that I try to point out? Noobs got burned heavily.

That's true holding is the safest way to make profits in future and most of the users prefer to do the same without putting their coins at risk by investing it anywhere, and if you are safe player then for you the best choice is to keep them safe in wallet and sell when price reaches to extreme level in future.

I disagree on that as I feel that holding is the risky method to make profits as price may even fall in future and at that point your holdings will be of no use as you need to again wait longer for price to rise and no one knows how long time it can take so I will choose to invest them in trading and try to grow my coins over a period of time.

None is sure about the price increase and decrease. So long term holding users don't get assured profit but upon the growth experienced with bitcoin we can predict that price increase happens. Other than this its better to make profit with short term holding which won't make you get into loss.

Holding the bitcoin is good and I think that it has a great future so investing is always good and I think a long term investment is even better.

I think holding and investment for a long time profitability depends on the saturation of market.  As of now it is proven that holding bitcoin will gives holders a big possibility of doubling or more their investment.  The reason for the possible income is the market being new to bitcoin even if bitcoin is around 7 years.  The market is not yet saturated meaning there are lots of people that still don't know bitcoin and the possibility that they will adopt it when bitcoin become mainstream.

just needed to make a good judgement before placing investment as we knew fluctuation happens and its should be treated as a long term investment so for your question yes it is and for sure it will be a good long term hold.

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It is indeed good, holding btc for a long time but on the other hand. You are missing the chance to grow your btc even more from your expectation since your coin is just sleeping in your wallet and only waiting for a huge price increase.

You're right , But there is another probability as we seen in histry of last two years .
The price can go sharply to down and will increases very slowly ,in this way instead of getting profit we remain with constant loss .
But it is more profitable when we hold bitcoin when the price are at very low .

Only holding is really best investment especially for bitcoin wise. Now i have no trust on online sites of investment, Because i already have one incident when i started work with bitcoin, So i suggest to anyone never do any invest your amount in online sites, till you know about it very well. But for me, i also think that only hold the bitcoins, it is more than better to give your bitcoin into other hands, and secondly, holding the bitcoins more have benefits than trading. Only you should need open your eyes, when bitcoin price rise up than sell them.

Altcoin could be profitable if you do some search and know exactly  about it to predict how it would be on few months later.
Bitcoin already has good foundation and stable price right now as we can see, so it's your choice where to invest your money.

In addition bitcoin might have some spike and dip in price but it is not as high as the fluctuation of certain altcoins.  Beside from that, it is more cheaper to venture bitcoin / altcoin trading than bitcoin / currency.  If you happen to get into an ICO and the one you participated turns out to be a promising one, you can multiply your BTC holding to some degree depends on how high the ICO coin gets when it hits the market.

For me i considered my signature campaign is the best investments which holds my bitcoin this year. A future plan is in my que of priorities which i will be facing next year to find best investments with altcoins tradings which i heard from a friend that the profit is good although risk is always there. Maybe this coming year best tradings will be holding my bitcoin in the future.

Well i don't agree with that,  altcoin is just giving us temporary profits and surely we can't trust them since they might gonna die for many instance just look for past scam coins and you can actually tell that it is not sustainable if we want longterm profits,  bitcoins got great flactuations in traders eyes since it flactuates frequently where we can earn if that certain matter will ocur,  and stability is just happening for a while and not for all the time.

Yes, I think so and specially in  present time when the price of bitcoin is continuously increasing, as it is the best investment from all other investment as you have to simple hold bitcoin for a good time and when you realize that it is the best time sell your bitcoin and get the profits.

I agree that holding is another word for savings which mean is a good way not to just spend your money and didn't have backup plan just in case something happen or for your future plan. If you don't have any skills in gambling or trading, don't know how or where to invest bitcoin, moreover don't have enough money to do so, be patient in hold and saving what you could earn. I believe it will more profitable in the next months or years later.

Honestly it takes a long time before you can make a good profit if you are just holding a small amount in your wallet you can only get few earnings or profit in next few years.. so it is not enough for me better to look that you can scaling it up. we there is a risk all of them has a risk but if you did not try  to increase the amount you will stay in low profit. everything has risk in order to earn more.. so if you want to increase your savings fast better to look and study to increase it.Every thing online is try and error like in trading or in marketing online when i was working on marketing you should need to experiment and try and error until you can found a strategy that you can make a profit.. i lost few money online in marketing but i am still experimenting and now i learn how to do seo buying domains and hosting paying paid ads in facebook and adwords that honestly i invest almost $150 in the first time i lose but i repeat and use my earnings from bitcoin to convert it in paypal and try again..  until i succeed now i have my own autopilot earnings in my website SEO organic traffic plus paid traffic in some social media.. Experience is the best that you will learn and you can use in the future..
So if you want to earn fast you should risk but if you are contented and want to be safe better to save it for a long time..That we do not know if the price of bitcoin will increase more or not..

Holding bitcoin is a good choice and safe to grow your money due bitcoin are still growing so you have a chance to get a big profit only by holding bitcoin for a few time.

I've invested on bitcoin long time ago then after mining some of it . i saved it on gambling sites bank roll because i get some profit from it every month and its more stable than playing gambling . and now i have almost 1 bitcoin and im gonna use it for starting a business. im just waiting till it hits 1000 us dollar per bitcoin some here in community saying that it could happen next year maybe june or july.

Holding is obviously best when you don't have knowledge of what you are doing.
But if you can take risks and have knowledge about the investment that you are going to make, then go ahead and do it as it's worth it.

It is not always the best but if you can investment a large amount of capital in bitcoin holding it for along time is the best..
Small amount is not enough it is better to scaling it up in trading or other ways to increase the amount until you get amount of bitcoin that you can hold for a long time and sell them in the right time and buy bitcoins again back with cheap price and sell again if the price is high. so that you can gradually increase your bitcoin in this method.

Honestly there is no assurance that the price of bitcoin will hit 1k value and it takes long time before we can see that amount.. so for me better to scaling it up like in trading increase the amount of bitcoin is more possibility that you can earn more than you are waiting for 1k value it takes long time before we can touch in this value..

yeah in fact i only hold 50% the other 50% is invested in mining altcoin, or something else that can increase my amount of coin, i'm not only interested in having more money in fiat terms, but also in having more bitcoin, and simply holding will not give you more bitcoin

If we hold bitcoin too long, it seems highly risky. The best way is divided into several altcoin the other like etherium, doge, waves and more.

I suggest to bitcoin should be hold for long term, but for altcoin don't ever hold too long, according to my experiences, when I hold the altcoin (about 6 months) precisely the fact is loss.

Bitcoin has been going up for years now, and yet you consider it to be highly risky? It's quite funny since you advice people to diversify into altcoins that are known to lose the major part of their value over a long period of time. Don't you consider that to be highly risky then? If people follow your advice, they will end up in a big minus. Especially when you consider that altcoins are short term investments where people are waiting for occasional pump and dumps.