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I just created this poll because I wanted to get a feel for what everyone is doing out there. Thanks for voting peeps!

Why not HODL (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0)? :D

Holding with plenty of spending at present. I'm stocking up for a summer adventure and it's all being funded with BTC. Time for it to do something other than sit there.

Not selling,  not buying.  Just holding & accumulating for now, but I may buy some fairly soon.   It's just lack of disposable income that's keeping me from buying,  and I definitely feel it's a good time to buy.  People really oversold this past month.

For now I am holding all bitcoin that I got and waiting for another 1200$ price peak before selling and gonna wait for a dump to rebuy again. That's what I usually do though so that I get extra btc and of course I convert some into fiat for some reason sometimes. I am spending a little now too and for this reason I voted selling some to diversify into other currencies since I hold a big percentage of what I got now but I spend some on online transactions to buy what I want.

I am also holding. I know things will be O.K, but if it forks, I think it will quickly be apparent which coin is going to be the one, and that's when I'll buy.

Holding. I always put back a little bit in a "Savings account" to a wallet with a private key that I have stored somewhere for use when I absolutely need it or when the time is right to bust it out

Buy and hold, price is still shaky and therefore it is a good time to buy while market consolidate itself.
Don't be a spineless wimp and hold your coins like man - if you want to profit, that is.
I learned my lesson in 2014 and 2015 - weak hands are always losers in the long run. I will never sell BTC for less than $2k
Even if case of the worst case scenario - hostile takeover of Bitcoin Unlimited there is very little chance that price of both chains will crash permanently.

Buying and holding

Most users consider it at as an asset that yields profit based upon the longer time period we hold. Importantly bitcoin has evolved as a potential investment from the other forms from a payment gateway to a successful currency that get used same as the currency used worldwide.

is you want buy, last week, because bitcoin price under 950 dollar
this now bitcoin price up trend again, is good desecion is hold bitcoin

Hodling the majority, with oportunistic moving between the btc and fiat in order to increase my stash of bitcoins. Worked very well in the past month or two.

i can't decide which option to vote for 8)

this is what i do:
- i bought coins 3 years ago which i am still holding
- i have been buying more coins each month or 2 months when i have some more money
- i have also bought even more coins whenever there is a dip because of big FUD and it has happened 3 times that i am well aware of and took advantage of in the past 3 years. i even borrowed money to do so.
- i also spend bitcoin whenever i need something and i want to buy it online, specially if there is a discount or i want to keep my privacy.
- i also do some altcoin trading,it is not diversification since i dump them in less than a week.

I didn't sold some of my coins when it was still ATH. But I don't regret that I keep on hodling, so that is what I've been doing for now. Because I do believe that one day we'll see the price of bitcoin to be at the top again and probably it can fly again to the moon.  8)

Bought the bottom

the obvious choice is HODLing! duh!
specially for those who are always uncertain about things and how price is changing at certain times, it is best to move their coins to cold storage and wait it out then come back to trading when things settle and market became predictable again.
and you won't ever regret HODLing in long term.

I am holding plus trading to increase the stash that I am holding. I barely cash out profits to fiat as in 95% of the times, the profits in BTC go through a mixer and then straight to one of my cold wallets. I started out with $10K as trading balance in 2014 and I am still using that exact same balance to trade with. In short - since then I haven't even put a single extra penny into Bitcoin. I just grow my holdings through trading.

Selling some and holding some for me, holding some of your BTC gives you the chance
to earn back the BTC you just sold a lot faster rather than just starting from 0 again.

Actually im doing the 4 things that are being mentioned on the poll. I do buy it and sell it when the price would go high and buy if it drops and hold some of them and at the same time while im holding im investing some of it on some good opportunity investments.I really do this 4 things which is also a good way i guess.

Buying and holding .  Buying at low and  hold it for a long time.
I know only sell my  bitcoin when needed. If im on trading i will definitely sell my bitcoins everyday juat to buy altcoins.

my current status holding and buying because apparently the price will recover soon and the current price also already through $1000 so i decide to hold and buying but still looking forward to see next situations and i wish my decission would not wrong

I buy and hold, especial now. Price does up and down all the time but the good thing is that there is not big differences between the prices. If the price keeps going up and you don't have much money to buy, it's not good. It would be the best, price does down to $600, for me :p I want to invest to btc but I can't as much as I want.

I buy and hold, and sell and rebuy again since I'm a day trader always watching as the price go up or down. My btc multiplies this way. If the price go up, I sell at some point where I think is the peak. When dump occurs. I buy when I think the price is the lowest possible and will hold after then I will repeat the same process. That's how I always use my bitcoin assets so I didn't vote since I do it all.

Sounds like you're a buyer. ;)

it is the nature of a trader. we certainly should be able to estimate the right time in the selling, buying and holding bitcoin.
because the purpose of all this is to gain an advantage. many things we do in order to multiply the bitcoin that we have today.

buying and hodling and then buying some more to hodl more and whenever there is a big FUD that is going to cause a drop i will go to my guy and borrow some money short term to buy some more bitcoin and in less than a week i give the money back and keep the profit :)

$$ When trouble is abrewing, BrewMaster is there to buy more cheap coins $$

Right now I am buying and holding more as I see the prices are really low right now that it is beneficial to me as my money will be able to buy more now than if it is when the price is really high. I still have high hopes that the prices of bitcoins will reach $2,000 by the end of the year, if not should hit $1,500 levels.

I am a holder type of person. It's what I have been doing from the very beginning, and thus far it has proven to be the most profitable practice for me. However, I am occasionally doing some 'slow' trading if the market is moving often enough within a certain period of time. It will allow me to gain some extra profits alongside me just holding my coins. I never limit myself to just one thing while I can do more at the same time.

I love this.

When you are holding your coin to get profit by Bitcoin's fluctuation, you also using Bitcoin to buy and trade some altcoins which I like most. Because I also do that, you can't hold Bitcoin forever and you also need to buy something from the internet with some discount.

With a bit going towards spreading in a variety of other coins although the wasn't a more than one option choice there.

I voted for selling some to diversify in other currencies.

The reasoning behind this is that bitcoin is still quite a risky investment, honestly as much as I love bitcoin i don't want to take the risk of it getting busted altogether as an investment. I'd rather diversify.

I was a bitcoin bagholder, but right now i don't feel the need to baghold because there isn't anything in the short term to drive up the prices anymore.

After the fork, i'll probably buy in the most valuable coin, and baghold that.

I'll go for diversification.

I have bought some coins that came dirt cheap, sold some when it was $1250+ and i'm actively looking to buy right now once the price point is low enough to my expectations. I am going long term with bitcoin.

But still, you should always never put all your eggs in one basket.

Don't be caught in the hype, and don't be caught in the low either.


True. But diversification does limit your risks for losses.

I guess it would be too hard to find true bitcoin lovers like God. Honestly I am not disturbing my current bitcoin holding, even prices will go down to $800 levels, I will keep it in same cold storage. I guess Mr. Namamotto will do the same (I learned this after some frustrating selling buying in volatile markets ). I am not going to listen any speculations nor sure-shot recommendations. Probably I will buy more if I get chances to buy cheaper.

I guess every altcoins will get dumped very soon as there will no backing for them except few new business are not deciding to accept them (still one or two coins get that level of reorganizations), others will face the consequences of dumping/profit booking.

The rise of altcoins would have made the dev of bitcoin ecosystem to find one reasonable solution for bitcoin scalabilty issue. Other than this, I guess there is no in sight problems for bitcoin is existing. Hopefully bitcoin will come out of this hurdle too like what it has done by earlier 2015 after mtcox collapse. 

What you are doing is same with me friend, Yeah I prefer using my Bitcoin to trading altcoin
to get some profit than holding we don't have anything except if the price of Bitcoin
will be suitable for our target. In my opinion trading altcoin it's better than holding Bitcoin

Guys i have read some article about the whole fork business. The article stated that when BU reaches 51% (whats very close) that they will only start to mine BU blocks. This to force a hardfork. What will happen to the price? Big crash because fork becomes more and more likely , or increase because less bitcoins are mined? (big blocks are not bitcoins, they are BU coins). Can somebody please help me out with this?

Thank-you guys so much for making this thread / poll a success. Keep the votes and your opinions coming in. It's starting to tell a story.

Holding, although I'm considering trading some.

majority of people hold their coins (me included) because bitcoin is most profitable in the long term and it is the easiest thing to do when you are not good at trading or don't have the time or the nerves to wreck!

and those who are sayin "diversify into altcoins" are either trolling or don't know what diversification means or they have fallen for the pump scam of the altcoins.
you always diversify in another good investment (eg gold) not diversify into a worse thing like alts.

For now I will hold bitcoin until prices rise accordingly my target. My target is to sell when the price of bitcoin to $ 1,400, it may take a long time but I still will follow my target. If I had some money maybe I will also continue to buy and hold, but it will not be often. The most important thing is not to sell because prices are not stable ;D

Holding is the best option for me right now since there has been little activity over the past week or so. I am actually planning on holding until we reach $1,500 and I hope it doesn’t take the whole year to get there. Even if the price goes again below four digits, I will still hold and maybe buy if there’s a significant drop in the price. We have all seen in the past how bitcoin has bounced back strongly after many plummets and always end up outperforming other known currencies.

Im holding my bitcoins as a long term valuable asset and so i neither bother the news about hard fork,nor get panic due to market situations.Bitcoin price is retaining from its temporary fall and its now around $1050.Gold is considered as a long term investment and bitcoin being Digital gold,i hold it as an investment.

If I had money, I'd have been buying when it was just over $900 as I didn't expect it to go lower.

Right now, I'm holding since I still expect Bitcoin to go up long term if these problems are sorted out.  If they're not in a few months, I might diversify.

With so many responding that they're holding we now know why the price isn't going anywhere!

A lot of people get worked up by the alts but there's really only one alt that provides any viable investment alternative to bitcoin. The rest are just pump and dump play toys for whales and a sucker's ride for the regular folks (no offense to the regular folks).

But yeah, hodl...at least for now.

Its good to see people can weather the storm, hopefully it pays off for people sooner than later.

Right now I am just holding.
I have no clue how things will turn out regarding the scaling problem.
Altcoins are getting stronger as well, and I think more and more investors are discovering crypto currencies an area of operation.
If you combine that uncertainty, I think it's wise to wait and see how things develope.

i honestly don't see any of the altcoins to be a viable alternative investment to bitcoin in long term.
however i completely agree that they are awesome short term investment even better than bitcoin when you look at them during the pumps. for example i have made 60% profit yesterday from LTC and today i made about the same percentage with XRP and now i am back in bitcoin holding it.

and all the rest of the so called "viable" investments are getting dumped the two bigger coins which made a noise have dumped down -44.3% and -20% which is a lot of money lost for those who stuck around and those who continue to do so will lose even more!

in the end when the dust settles you will see that ALL of them are pump and dump and there is only bitcoin that survives and continues going up.

I'm all in HODL for now. There is no point in selling right now, even if hard fork happens I would like to see how the prices of btc and btu turn out and it would to nice to have both coins for some time after the fork. But I personally don't think hard fork will happen. If it doesn't happen we all know BTC will set another ATH soon.

I am also holding my coins and i am taking full advantage of the price swings as i am selling when i feel like the price has reached a definite top valuation and i would sell some coins during those time period so that i could get that back during the correction period and till now i am in profits doing so and i was able to get back all the coins with every dip.

Some decline on altcoin markets is starting:

- Ethereum pump might be over, ETH lost more than 6% in last 24h
- Dash is falling with 14% drop
- Liceoin pump ended as well
- Iconomi and Decred are losing too

In the meantime bitcoin resumed rising trend. It might be a sign that traders are bored with altcoin and back to BTC.
Time to buy?

Made me smile.

Its kind childish but still : I TOLD YOU ALL  ;D

Litecoin revival went wrong

Muhh DASH is the new bitcoin  ::) REKT

I warned those Dash sheeps weeks before the price declined.

Icnomi & Decred? i am not even going to start about those because they dont even exist anymore in a couple of years.
Anyway Ethereum has a kind of floor around 35/40 dollar.

Altcoins= trading
Bitcoin = investing

Agree 100%, that is, I have been warning, and saying the same thing about the alts. it's schemers with big money, pumping and dumping those currencies because they are so easy to manipulate. It's the little guys that usually get left holding the bag, before they know what hit them.


Also agree 100%. Bitcoin is investing, the rest is trading, dangerously.


And, thank-you, to everyone for making this thread, and the poll a success. I think a picture is being drawn.  :)

Might as well gets trashed by mods.

The only alternative that has real potential for great adoption is Ethereum...and it's not even a currency, it's an investment in an idea that will literally change many industries. Businesses can understand how the blockchain can change their business, but they don't know how to code or create a blockchain (they'd have to invest time to do so). Ethereum offers these businesses the blockchain to use as they wish, leaving the investment dollars to be spent on the actual application of blockchain rather than trying to create one.

Understood, but let me ask this question about etherum. Considering that one unit of etherum is needed for one contract, how much can etherum rise in $ amount before it's no longer an economical route for anyone to use for its intended purpose? Isn't the price sort of capped because of this??

I am holding my coins. For the fork to happen as then my bitcoins will be double and then I will sell the bitcoins on both the chains. And buyback after a price decrease.

there is still time to wait for the price rise in bitcoin. with patience I am sure we can get a huge advantage. sell now looks like we will lose these benefits.

In case the chain split has become reality, or even before that since there still is a 14 day of "waiting period", you'll already be too late to optimally profit from a hard fork. Bitcoin will suffer from a massive short term price decrease, possibly resulting in prices far below the $500 level. Things aren't as easy as you seem to think. In order to be infront of whatever is going to happen, you need to act in advance, otherwise you'll get eaten by the whales that don't show a signle grain of mercy to people.

No i never buying bitcoin at all, i just collecting bitcoin by signature campaign, even though  amount from it not too big, sometimes I deposit a part of my balance into trading website. It give me more profit when i do good trade :v

Okey your point is scaring poeple, so whats with you?
Creating panic for the readers... stop it
We never know what Will hapen with the price And How iT is now the price is rising.

I also voted for holding bitcoin now. I'm not affected by the BU vs Core schism. I will just continue to hold it and then buy some. I won't listen to FUD spreading here in our community because I'm the one who will decide if holding its worth it. The price has been steady for the past week at a range of $1000-$1200 so holding is the best option. I will buy some if I have a extra money, but not now. I will hold it so I can maximize profits if I decided to sell it in the future.

It's funny how you fail to see in what context my post is directed. I gave a good and honest answer to some one asking for it (as far as possible since we can only speculate at this point), and nothing else. If you think that's panic creating, then you don't know how bad things can go in Bitcoin. People understanding how the situation is will not panic, and that's exactly the main point of importance - understanding of how far away we are from a fork. It's nothing more than a potential fork.

Yea but we Dont know if we have a fork ore not explain to me How much % the chance is for a hardfork
And details pls explain it

It's difficult to say how much % the chance is for the hard fork to really happen, but the chances for it not to happen are higher (thus over 50%). My personal thought regarding the BU threat is that they are just trying to put a huge load of pressure on the Core side to come up with an 'improved' solution. Mining operations are just in the game to generate as many profits as possible, and thus won't put their entire operations into danger by forcing through a hard fork that will result in a huge short term blood bath. But then there is also a possiblity of a 'hostile takeover' in the way that they will just take the risk and let the fork happen, in the hope that the support will then shift to BU where entities as Roger Ver and Jihan Wu will be one of the main players (i.e. hunger for control). Time will tell whether or not BU is just barking, or they really plan to go through with their hidden agenda plans.

Interesting site that shows how much blocks have been mined with what sort of signalled support; https://coin.dance/blocks

Signalling support is nothing more than pools letting know what they support through the Core client. Don't directly add too much value to the numbers shown. It's just an indication tool rather than something decisive.

i am still holding my bitcoin in my wallet although i use some part to doing trading in btc-altcoin because i think its the right time to trading altcoin so if we can make profit, our bitcoin amount will be increase and we can wait for bitcoin price is up. and if bitcoin price is up, i think its a good time for us to sell it and withdraw it into our currency.

It is easy to "make money" during bull trend. And we are in one since last year.

Wake me up, when the market is unsure, if we are going to ATH or 10 dollars per bitcoin. Then and only then will you see, who is investor and who is not.

Just my two cents.

Bull market = increasing fiat

bear market = increasing bitcoin

I love them both.

Only sideways is bad.

I believe people, who made most of the money on bitcoins (aside from founders) are those that did so during "side ways" movements (unless you see short history of bitcoin in its entirety as one long bull run). By lending them on interest, by investing into related start ups. Even shady ones like Mark Karpeles did.

Buying low and selling high is obvious, if you catch my drift.

I'm trying to hold my Bitcoin as much as I can but sometimes I also sell them. I.try not to buy them, they are expensive now, but to earn them as much as it is possible.
The bravest traders have earned the most and the last period was good for skilled and experienced traders to enlarge their profit.

My bitcoin asset this now 2 bitcoin, iam buy in bitcoin price in level 980 dollar
until now iam still holding my bitcoin balance, i hope bitcoin price can incraese to 1500 dollar
minimum can back over 1200 dollar again

I am just holding my bitcoins. I dabbled in altcoins, but I didn't foresee this huge rally.
Might have missed out on some profits, but I am satisfied with the upside potential of Bitcoin.

Mostly holding, but I'm also diversifying.

Mostly because I don't agree with the current direction bitcoin is heading.

i am selling some when needed because most all i earn only in bitcoin. so i will keep my capital and sell some profit that i earned no matter in what price when i sell it

I think the poll is starting to tell a true story, we have over 60 votes now. Would like to hit 100 at least. thanks for voting, and your comments are most welcomed.

Me i'm still HOLDING bitcoin even if its back to three digits, never going broke my being loyal in bitcoin lol. Hahaha i will hold my bitcoin until in 2020 and sell it in $10,000 price lol......

BTC will reach $10,000 in 2020 don't sell your bitcoin just my tips create your self address (that you have the private key) and stock just $20 and wait til 2020 IMO

Holding is good considering the price rally of bitcoin, because from the beginning it has given its users an increased profit with its increasing price​ and growth compared to other altcoins. So probably holding is similar to an assurance of profit in the future.

Being that Bitcoin is near $1200 it looks like most Asset holders got it right, that is to hold. What are you doing with your Assets. Please let us know by voting, or share your opinion.

I’m mostly a holder, I don’t sell that much when the price is right I take advantage of it and I buy but for the most part I hold and I plan to do it for a very long time.

Same here(mostly).

However even though I belivee that the hard fork doesn't really matter because after the split we're going to get coins on both chains anyways(if you were smart enough to hold your coins in cold storage instead of holding it on an online wallet, that is ;)) and those two coins added together will give you the value of one "original bitcoin". So there is really nothing to lose here.

But still, I have diversified my portfolio around 10% into various altcoins and various fiat currencies.

That way, they hedge against each other, if bitcoin crashes i've essentially got funds to buy in more cheap coins and wait for it to rise again. It's not much, but I guess it is a good place to start.

I want to feel what people feel out there,
make asset here let me add just let me give my best.

I voted for buying, but I think if holding can be voted to the two should be the two most common that bitcoin users do, well you will buy bitcoin if the price is small but you can not do it right now because the price is too high and you will never know if the value will keep on going up!

Right now the small earnings from faucets were the only assets that I hold in the form of bitcoin. For beginners I believe buying is the only way to have bitcoin as an worthy asset to give profit in the future.