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Hi bitcointalk,

I have about 100 eth on my ledger wallet, should I convert them to bitcoins or stay in ethereum? Should I go 50/50? Or go all in on one of them?

What are the pros and cons in this violent market?

Please share your two cents

Well it depends on your interest if you like to store eth and hold it for long term or exchange it to bitcoin on current price and hold it for long term.Since its your own coin then its your decision on what you wanna gonna do on that.For me on your situation i would exchange it to bitcoin 100% since price now is moving fast.

Ethereum is definitely growing and with more tokens being based on their blockchain , there will be always demand for it over time for gas etc... I still see more potentials and bigger growth in BTC however , Its pretty much safe to say that bitcoin is unstoppable at this point with LN and SegWit coming. Both are good projects , I'd go 100% bitcoin If were you but If you don't want to take much risk then split them to 50/50.

Stay those ETH as they are and let it idle for long term holding purposes.

What you must do is to get another bunch of your extras ammos right from your pocket to buy bitcoin at the current rate or if by means that you have no chance of buying it directly with the thing I mentioned then earned it by doing any kinds of method. If you really believes that bitcoin will make again another big price increase then do it now before regretting later.

Holding them both are good. Pros and cons? Price volatility and that's it.

This is only based on my own view if Im the person involved in your case and not suggesting you to follow it. Follow your heart this is your investment after all. Goodluck.

In my opinion mate, better make a 50/50 investment on that since both coins are really good but bitcoin has more potential and most known but ETH is making too, sooner you gonna be rich in doing such things because both are on progress.

If you are going for long term gains, gor sure, sell your ETH as soon as possible. Ethereum is not a a long term investment. The technology is too experimental. TC makes it a fuckfest, anything can happen, an undetected bug that destroys everything could be found, literally just like that... I dont see how ETH can be something you can trust long term.

If you are short then maybe gamble it out holding those 100 ETH and hope for the best.

These are better points than I expected. I will go 50/50.

Sell your ETH and buy bitcoin, actually, the chart was teaching me the bitcoin price is getting the pump right now. and you can sell your bitcoin at the high price and wait for the next dump of bitcoin price.

I don't even know if eth is high or low now, but my suggestion is to take a profit if you actually made one and buy bitcoin.  And never lookback.  I'm fairly convinced everything other than bitcoin is headed for disaster.

You can do 50/50 since ether and bitcoin is on good value. Bitcoin is at $906 right now and i think it will pump again soon. But its up to you if you will go all in on bitcoin. You can still win a good profit if you go all in on bitcoin. Its now starting to pump. You should go all in now before they dump again.

this now bitcoin price is incraese and good price
after down until reach under 790 dollar
so is good you can 50/50 , in bitcoin you can exchange to fiat money and hold until bitcoin down and then you can buy bitcoin again

if bitcoin price down, ethereum price can incraese so you can sell ethereum, and then you can get many bitcoin and incraese youre bitcoin balance

1btc and 50 eth. I would have kept so

1 btc all the way!

I think its better if you 50/50. Because the movement of price of bitcoin and ether is different. Once the price of bitcoin drops. The price of alts will surely increase. When alts drops. The bitcoin will increase. Its vice versa. If you go 50/50. Im sure you're in safe. Its for safety measure. Its up to you. Can you manage 2 coins?

How much the capital for bought 100 eth? $200, $300, $400 or other amount, so in my opinions you must sell eth with amount early of capital and congratulation you have done return of investment, it can be used for making investment on other altcoins.
But everything depend on your strategy of investments into digital coins for make more profits.

if now you are getting profit than when you buy, then i suggest you to sell wit 50/50 and keep the bitcoin in your wallet but if you want to play with long term, then hold it as long as you want. but i don't recommendation for hold in long term if you are not sure with ether because i will stick to hold bitcoin than hold ether in long term.

Why anyone would pick eth over btc is beyond me. Btc is tested and true and eth is plagued with bugs. Its an easy choice. Like I said before. 1 btc.

Of course bitcoin is good choice I had some Ethereum and when started bugs from it, I sold them fast and bought bitcoin, because bitcoin is old well known and have good future, but it is your choice you can go 50/50 too because ether price is good now. good luck in your choice Sir

I would wait for next price spike of ethereum and then sell half of it. Don't be inpatient price will raise in the futur but then grab the opportunity before it goes back to normal.

Hold a good 40 ETH

It will pay off when staking later and the value of ETH will have its surge someday too. Smart investers diversify their investments anyway. I'd go 40/60. Don't quote me but I think that you want 35+ ETH to get full interest when staking ETH and any less when it enters POS will earn less interest. Again do not quote me. If someone can correct me that would be good.

I'm about 40/60 myself but mainly because I am holding my mined ETH and my current BTC is what I've gotten from insta selling whatever I mine now

I tend to hold 100 ETH. You can earn long term profit from ETHER, it is very reliable, the second best genius team in the whole crypto coins world. After last years huge dump, the price is holding above 0.01 BTC, which is rather stable now. If its price will be 0.007 BTC again, buy ETHER as much as possible, with all of your bitcoin.

I think you can convert ETH to bitcoin now because ETH is hard to increase at this time but bitcoin is easier to increase and the bottom line wil be 750$- 810$ so that is good choice to convert it. Good luck, Guy.

i am not going to tell you what to do but instead i am going to tell you what i think.

bitcoin is a sure thing, when you invest in it you know that the chances of you regretting that investment, specially in long term is very slim and nearly zero.

but ethereum is an altcoin which is a very risky investment. it has many downsides and many problems, which means price of it can not go up with adoption. however it is manipulated, which means it can get pump and dumped and you can make profit from the pumps if you can catch them and lost money if you are late and get dumped on.

I think so, as bitcoin has more rapidly growing than eth or other coins. So it's more safely to store your eth into bitcoin.
Look at eth charts in last year until now and you will know how fast it's developing, than compare to bitcoin charts.
You will see the difference between these coins. However, the decision is yours, if you like to save it in eth or bitcoin.

@OP
Did you buy your ETH "fuel tokens" when they were over $20 each ?

By the way after the DAO attack minecache the expert here on ETH proclaimed proudly that Ethereum ICO coins will be $100 each in 12 months.

..make of that what you will.

PS:
See the sticky topic here about "Speculation"

Who cares when he bought them or what he paid all we need to care about is that btc is the king and will always be.

In my personal opinion, those two are both in the process of progress. Why not try to make go to 50/50 trial, then hold it both and wait for the right time until it reach the price value that you are waiting it.

Unfortunately what happened to DAO has shaken ETH too much. I think if it had not happened, the value would probably continue to rise. Your proposal and your development team are very good, but until I see that market confidence has returned I would not invest much in it. I think 40 / 60 (Eth/Btc) is good.

Sorry but segwit won't work. It needs about 95% adoption to activate it. As i read, it's against miners interest to adopt segwitt (because of the fees), therefore it will never happen.

You are right. I know that currently Mining Pools would rather have Bitcoin Unlimited, which is is supported by 17.30% miners, 2nd is SegWit with 16.67% support and lastly we have 8 MB blocks with 9.30% support.
There is no way, unless something unexpected happen, to see activation of SegWit. Maybe this tech will be used by Litecoin. But SegWit's negation by miners is no reason to not hold Bitcoin anyway.

You could earn more, and you could lose more... Depends on your investment strategy IMO, Bitcoin is not stable to USD but ETH is not stable to even BTC so the price could change on almost any aspect even if bitcoins go up or down..
Personally I would exchange %75 at least to BTC.

Stay on eth 100% 😜✈️

Keep the ether. For example, people say having anonymous transactions is COOL. But they will implement it on ethereum. If being able to send a coin from X to Y anonymously is a big thing, imagine how cool it is to not just do that, but to implement it in dapps / smart contracts. It was tested succesfully on ethereum https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/01/19/update-integrating-zcash-ethereum/ . Next big thing is chosing the best option to scale the chain and then it'll become a killer scalable all in one chain, making every other rival project obsolete.

That's a great feature for Ethereum developers and their users to have.

That Christian Reitwiessner dude has an amazing brain.

A body blow for Monero ;(

Well, i honestly don't think projects that aim to become cash have a future outside speculation. Think of it, no one will adopt something that's mostly owned by a small group of early adopters as cash, except for a few cases (black market, speculation). So basically to make outsiders use what you got, you want them to want / NEED your product. That's where platforms like ethereum fit. 2017 is the year where too many projects have alpha / beta release. Even santander's project may launch this year.