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Bitcoin is currently $3300+......I can still buy a few.....to use it as a some sort 401K plan then since I have to think Long Term with it.  I see that Ethereum was endorsed by President Putin and seeing this video is making think to invest more in Bitcoin.  Buy a few Bitcoins like 3...then buy like 10 Ethereum coins for an added push.  Will Ethereum be as valuable as Bitcoin??


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLFdVdNFqM8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me-r74CQV3Q


I am using Coinbase to buy my bitcoins.  Well I did in the past.  I had like 30 Bitcoins when it was $200.  Kicking myself bigtime.

Bitcoin is very cheap.
Expect 100.000 usd in 5 years.

I suggest don't buy all at one go instead plan to buy in three to four instalments and give few days or couple of weeks gap for next purchase then you may get a good average price for each coin. You missed to buy these coins are more reasonable price in last month and now already went up quite a lot, and prices may correct so buy in small quantities to get a good price.

Simple answer: NO!!
Eth is not meant to be money. It's more like fuel for smart contract execution. Furthermore it's attack surface is incredible huge and a completely governed blockchain which has on top of it many scam ICOs happening. This is the only reason why Eth can hold it's value. And should be mentioned as well that this coin is premined and almost 80% is in hands of minority of people, plus the chain has lost it's immutability and no fixed cap so far.
It also should be mentioned that there are more and more direct competitors are coming out who may give Ethereum a pretty hard time in the future.

Damn!  I see,  well let me try to buy some Bitcoins then.   I will hold of on Ethereum for the time being.

There is no harm taking a small punt on a number of coins: Ether, Bitcoincash, Doge, Monero, Dash.

Do your research and try not to pay too much. Have a set point where you start to cash out profits. Pretty soon you'll have made yourself some more bitcoin.

You slightly miss the boat for ethereum when the price go back for 0.07+ level back on these past days but maybe you can still earn with it if you would stake for this moment since the demand of ethereum still pretty cool and price of it most provably would pump so hard for these days around.

If you really feel you've missed out on Bitcoin, and no one has, then it's equally unhelpful to put all your eggs into another basket that's pumped ridiculously as well.

At the start of the year ETH was $10. That feels a little bit like a missed boat too to anyone buying in now. There's still potential upside but it would take some paradigm shifts to really get dramatic returns.

Same goes for BTC of course, but there might be more possibilities of explosive developments, both good and bad.

Maybe put a little play money into the top ten coins at Bittrex or Poloniex. A few will fail miserably, others may more than compensate for that. Similarly put even less play money into stuff that's currently nowhere but has a little excitement behind it.

There is no "missing the boat" for digital Gold 2.0, the future of money. It doesn't matter what the exchange rate currently is.

Why do people keep saying this? Is it because of the expectation of vast returns?

Look, in the U.S. the current nominal inflation rate is somewhere in the neighborhood of 6-8%/year, and quietly rising. At any time it could explode northward.

So all your entry point into Bitcoin has to do, should you decide to hold it as a long term store of value, is to beat that inflation rate year over year.

That's all.

Do you think it will appreciate by at least that much? Fk yeah it will. It will likely double at least every 4 years, if not sooner.

I think all these coins are OK. But bitcoin cash could also be a good back if the Segwit version of the bitcoin fails.

It would be better for you if you buy bitcoin itself.Ethereum is just a pumped altcoin and it may be dumped at any time.But bitcoin has great future and after hard fork,it has continuously increased and it is expected to increase more.So better buy bitcoins.

Most holders of Bitcoin already hold equal amounts of bitcoin cash. Not all bitcoin cash has been dumped at exchanges. You have a natural hedge there - if scaling issues pull down Bitcoin, bitcoin cash will rise.

Eth costs half as much as bitcoins (go by the market cap, not the actually price of a single unit.). They're a hyped up Ponzi that has infinite supply, and many other alts do the exact same thing. They aren't worth what they cost today and these prices won't go up exponentially anymore. Don't be a bagholder, don't hold any ETH. If anything goes wrong the dev will hard fork in a hot second.

ETH does not need to be as valuable as bitcoin. It is an investment. All it need to do is to be more valuable than when you bought it. If you bought it early, chances are, you will be profitable in 2 or 3 years. Maybe not as much as bitcoin can give you but it is still profitable. And in investment, diversity is good. So investing in a few other more coins is healthy.

Diversity is a great idea, but I'm not going to be investing in a business that generates numbers out of thin air indefinitely. That's the definition of a Ponzi. An ever inflating Ponzi that everyone is hyped up about buying but has no idea why it should actually be worth $300 each.

I see guys.  I am going to invest roughly $10,000 into the Bitcoins.  That will give me roughly 3 bitcoins.  Seems Ethereum is more risky judging by the comments on this thread and people have mixed signals on it.

Hopefully by the end of the year I would have double to $20,000 since people are saying that Bitcoins would most likely be worth $5,000 each.

Ethereum's boat is a tad bit shaky - and probably just too leaky at the moment. You should look into other alternatives like WAVES, STRATIS, and NEO

Hopefully you doubled it. Look, this is a very risky and unwise investment plan. Do the math, you make 100% gain if all goes like it did based on the past, where there are a few very good coins out there with much more potential, like 2x, 3x, 5x.

IMO, buy a Bitcoin and choose 3 other coins to invest in. I'm not going to tell you what coins, but do some investigation. And spread your money. Not fudding or anything, but like on the stockmarket, all is very risky and spread the investment over several stocks.

Choose wisely and good luck  :)

Why do you only focus on the old projects. They are more or less priced If btc raises to 10k usd, or eth raises to 1000 usd in mid term you will gain x3. But there are many new and developing projectss with good teams that you can earn more than x3.

Regardless of who I talk to about Bitcoin, if he's a novice, the discussion inevitably gets to this:

"I missed the boat on Bitcoin"

It's almost as if no one actually understands the purpose of this cryptocurrency, they just see it as a quick rich scheme that they've found about too late.

I really think it is still not too late to buy Ethereum and Bitcoin most especially if you want to trade them in long term. Which is what I am doing, I think I would profit more if I just HODL my coins and get back with them a few years after.

Agree both Ethereum and Bitcoin is a strong coin that is a good investment for long term so buying right now is not something investors to be afraid of even if the price is high as of the moment.

Bitcoin mania has not even started yet. Once SEC approves bitcoin ETF, there will be huge money flow in it.
It is a must-have buy and hold.

Bitcoin is cheap right now. Except the price to double before 2020. So except if doubling your money passively is not enough, simply do it and that's all!

You have not missed the bitcoin boat yet, I think bitcoin will see a correction in the next days/months. Wait for this correction and buy bitcoin.

Ethereum the next alternative to investing. Many traders are taking advantage of ETH market conditions that are cheap enough to make alot purchases. Because they believe ETH will soar as it has in bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a good source for us to increase our money in a few years.
why do you say you lost the boat? bitcoin is so cheap, it can reach $7k at the end of the year, you could double your money in matter of months, and if you keep holding your money will be huge, bitcoin is the future bro.
better to invest now than regret in a few years.
for those that cannot afford $3600 to buy a bitcoin, then buy less bitcoin.
remember my words.

I hear you guys.   I just bough 4 1/2  bitcoins right now.   




7K??? are you damn sure?? i would more than double my money in months lol.   

I'm going to hold NEO and Bitcoin Cash a store of value. SegWit Bitcoin is not a store of value. I have not purchased Bitcoin Cash, I am going to wait a few months. I have significant NEO holdings.

Just do research and spread your investments over a couple of coins. Do not bet on one horse.

bitcoin "boat" is impossible to "miss"!

bitcoin price will always continue to go up because it is always being adopted more and more every day. because of that there will always be fresh money coming in and that means more rise in long term.
you can clearly see it here. this topic was started when price was in early $3000 but now it is testing the $3700 resistance!

but in ethereum there is no boat to get on to. there is a sinking ship that comes up from time to time to get some air when they pump it and then it is all down the hill from there.
and there is no adoption for ethereum. there is only ICO and when they stop or become scam, guess what happens to ether price!

In my opinion, I recommend you should take profit NEO if you think this coin can continue increasing in short time. However, if you are holder in long term, with the potential of NEO, holder from Chinese will helps NEO go the moon in 1-2 years is possible.

there will be a slightly dip after for Bitcoin pump, corrections will be made, Ethereum will surely receive next pump after that.

I think in the long term, the boat is still not lost for the bitcoin. The expectation is it values a lot more each year. But if you think in a short term, I suggest you wait for some price correction to buy bitcoins.

For me, I think ethereum will be as valuable as bitcoin because even bitcoin's value is higher than ethereum, it is still harder to earn while an ethereum is easy to earn. Also, many people are changing their cryptocurrency from bitcoin to ethereum, if more people invest to ethereum, I think ethereum will surpass bitcoin.

Eth definitely has potential of reaching the moon just like bitcoins before the end of this year. I am so sorry that you missed the chance of having an epic ride with bitcoins. But there is no need to be disheartened if you are late, you can still invest into bitcoins because they are expected to pump more in the coming months.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2083434.new#new

I don't you missed the boat for bitcoin as well as Ethereum. They have lot more room to improve and lot more way of usage for real life. I would just follow pump-dump waves and jump into dump stage.

Why more people are investing into eth ? I can’t figure out any one solid reason of leaving bitcoins just for eths.
Eths are not that good. Besides they can never compete with bitcoins. It is not that hard to invest into bitcoins. Only a dumb can make this move. No one will leave bitcoins if he/she really wants to be millionaire in next 5 years.

If you did buy on those times that you speak when the price is just still on 3300+ then you would probably making 700 usd profits as of now for a short period of time since the price had already increased and hitting 4k as of now. ETH is just an another story and it do really have the potential to increase its price and as of now i guess its the sweet spot on buying cheap eth as of now the price is decreasing as of now.

People go to eth because they think they can get more profit.
In other words for now it's all a game to gain more FIAT.

Yes, they are just for profit, their work is personal, and they are just selfish, their choices are always for their own sake. But they always have reasons to justify.

It's a case to case situation but as of now i think not yet. I mean there is a.possibility yes but i bet it will take so much time for this to happen. Let's say putin do that but is it enough to turn things out for eth?

Ethereum may get to $3300 one day but it might not be as good as bitcoin. Bitcoin is the the forerunner of crytocurrency and the most popular among all the coin and because of this bitcoin will continue leading other altcoins. Ethereum, litecoin zcash are some of the best coins you can buy now and become millions in future.

Times are changing and bitcoin is successful mainly because its the first cryptocurrency unlike Ethereum which i honestly do not know what it has to offer besides being the second biggest crypto on the market and I do not see it competing with other altcoins that have specialized in what they can be used for.

So before investing in any other crypto lets consider what the cryptocurrency has to offer to guarantee a return of profits

Don't expect that much because there is still a probability that the opposite might happen. To diversify invest on other altcoins but not on ethereum, it is still a bit hype IMO which is bad and indicates that there will be a dump on eth soon. If you will diversify on an altcoin, I recommend waves they are undervalued ATM.

This is probably true. And the potential upside far exceeds the potential downside.

First of all you should buy from any place but to hold at the official wallet only .
Herr in my opinion you should not buy a single coin but to buy bitcoin and then placed at the exchange and place the order to buy BCH , DGB , ETH , DASH ,ETC .
These five coins will surely make the future bright for you because these are those coins which are high potential but the future is waiting for the grow , and according to my analysis these are those coins which are better to buy with the down in the price , and i feels that these are those coins which have power in the cryptocurrency field like the bitcoin and if we can invest in the starting tyen we can make big earnings easily .
(note: the coins i told are at low price currently so don't buy at high if you see this post , regardless of the value of coin in fiat ).