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Is it better to hodl
 btc or invest it in other crypto like bitcoingold or bitcoincash or bit connect and others? Where will you profit more?

HODL without a doubt!  Just leave it alone and do not disturb the BTC.  Come back after few months and be happy..  ;D ;D

i think in middle term is better, you can invest 50% and hold 50%

If by investing you mean investing into another coin then I suggest hodling but If you're planning to invest into a project that will generate BTC for you such as an exchange, faucet etc. then that could be better.

Well, investing in other coin has a bigger potential than hodling. But it is important to choose that altcoins properly. Choosing between these two alternatives I would put 70% of your capital in bitcoins and invest other 30% in altcoins. The final decision is yours :)

Well, if you are having your capital in Bitcoin then itself is an investment as you don't expect much growth in regular fiat currencies. I believe that Bitcoin will perform very well in the long run but that doesn't mean that I should force you to hodl. Please do your own research and explore the potential growth of Bitcoin as well as alt-coins and ICOs. For me, I try to hodl 50% and spend 50% of my entire capital. Meanwhile, make sure that you are holding your funds in the secure wallet to avoid unauthorised access to your private keys.

You will always profit more where there is more risk.  Then again, you'll normally lose more where there is more risk as well.  As such, you need to create your own risk tolerance profile and invest accordingly. 

Its depend on your aims. If you want to earn money and spend a few time - HODL, better to have several good coins. If you want to earn step by step, you can trade, but it is hard way.

50% hold 3-40% lending 1-20% ICOs :)

Good luck!

I've started trading with some of my BTC and have made some nice profits. But it takes up a lot of time. Keeping BTC is a good idea, but try and spread your portfolio. E.g. 50% bTC, 25% ETH, and the other 25% is what you trade with to try and make a good trade here and there. Any BTC made from trading you add to your pool of BTC to HODL.

Hold until market crash, then stay in fiat for few months.

investing your money is always more profitable than just holding it. and although your money (which is bitcoin) is gaining value on its own it is going to gain more value if you invest it and make more of it!

but investing in altcoins is not as easy as just holding. you need to learn how to trade. and trading is not just buying and selling, it is to know when to buy and when to sell. doing some analysis for instance. the good news is that it is not that hard to learn but it is hard to master. if you do that, you can make a lot more bitcoin with what you already have.

The more risk the more reward. I'm about 50/50 on my HODL and invest right now, but I'm starting to save up more BTC because I'm feeling over exposed and no alts are performing the way I want them to (which of course is better than Bitcoin). Holding is easy. Investing just amplifies your risk.

I think you're creating the wrong area. This topic should be in Trading discussion , not here.

And if he means investing, as in growing your money, then that is the same thing as holding your bitcoins. As you said, investing it in a project which you believe have a lot of potential then go for it. Either make a business or invest to an ongoing project (which I don't really suggest doing so). This is the safe and secure path to take.

split half for invest and half for hodl..

for me it's always invest , but I don't invest in other coins I just invest my btc and try to make them more instead of letting them in my wallet
you can invest btc in some good gambling sites that allow players to invest , this is a slow and steady way to grow your bitcoins
also you can pick some good trades , like buying Doge when its 15 or 16 sats , buying clams at 50K sats
these kind of trades are usually profitable , and in this case you can grow your bitcoins

Stick with the bitcoin only. There is no need to look at other crypto. In the long run bitcoin has shown, proved the most profitable crypto. Nowadays even in short run as well bitcoin investment is profitable. Go for bitcoin with long term investment plan. Purchase some coins or satoshi. Few years later you will find yourself with huge wealth.

for now, you'd better hold it.. because the price of bitcoin is getting higher and higher again.

I think it depends how many money you can invest. The best profit is from cheap coin whose can grow very high, so you can buy a lot of coin for low price and sell it for a much higher price

Hold it if you don't have any ideal to invest it.

If you are not sure on what to do with your bitcoin, just better hodl it more and let the bitcoin price go for another all-time high. Perhaps the most effective way to use the bitcoin or any cryptomoney is to learn first on how and where to invest it.

I am no expert but reading through these forums on other threads the general consensus is to hold.

Hold is the easiest way to make profit , investing needs much talents and skills if you're not a smart investor, go with holding is the safer way.

I think hodl is the better choice :o

perhaps hold it for now, it keeps rise, but it depends on you, if you want to get more profit, better use daily trading and invest it on bitcoincash.

It depends upon u that do u have heart to bear losses then invest but if u cannot bear loss then i suggest u to hold. As experience just play with 10% of your btc to trade in others and keep remaining in hold. U will learn trading by loss and profit then come back to invest more or to stop trading depending upon your losses

Bitcoin for me is the most reliable investment out of all the cryptocurrencies out there even though it already have a huge price that if you invest now you will wait sometime to make it double, if you will compare it to the BTG and BCH that has a low value right that if its possible to grow like what Bitcoin did then I don't think that they can do what the original does because they are copy cats.

So what alt coin would you invest into?  What coin has the adoption and acceptance that btc has?  Btc was first to market, first to adoption, first to acceptance.  It's going to be hard to over take that.  Ask the average person to name a cryptocurrency.  Their response will be bitcoin 90% of the time.

Depending on how much btc you have, you might look into buying some newer mining equipment and keep generating more.  Mine alt coins and convert to bitcoin until something else proves itself to be more accepted world wide.

Don't get me wrong, I do think there are better coins out there than bitcoin, but, the average person doesn't know that.  They just know what they read in the media, or see in commercials.  ETH may give it a run for its money, but only time will tell.

Expert saying try to participate in Airdrops and signature campaigns, make some coins, understand the market and then start mining using hashrate

dont hold , and dont invest , you just buy antminer and mining everyday , very profitable

Don't do this!!!!
By the time they supply you a miner you will be at a loss.
I've seen so much people getting burnt this way.
Only buy mining rigs if you somehow have free power.
Or buy capacity at a cloud mining facility.

Just buy BTC and HODL!!!!

if you have bitcoin, try to hold it until the end of the year. it is possible that bitcoin prices will rise at a high by the end of the year. you may be very lucky, when bitcoin prices go up to $ 10,000

If you have hodled BTC the whole time, you would have gotten Bitcoin Gold and Bcash + airdrops from Stellar and Byteball and a few more.
Next year there will be much more forks like Bitcoin Gold happening. Some of these have launched websites already.
supersmartbitcoin.com (http://supersmartbitcoin.com)
bitcoincashplus.org (http://bitcoincashplus.org)
bitcoinsilver.io (http://bitcoinsilver.io)
btcd.io (http://btcd.io)

Right now i'd say invest if you have the funds to do so. If you have bitcoin then keep holding it. It's not as much to profit from bitcoin forks but rather just to benefit from the price rises of bitcoin that i think will continue to happen towards the end of the year nearing christmas.

The line of "holding" and "investing" really blurs. Because if you invest, you better be prepared to hold. Don't go for the short term but rather play the long term game. Bitcoin is one of those things that i personally really believe in, andi  wouldn't dump all my stash even if it became $10k or more overnight.

If you're talking about investing in forks of BTC though, i personally don't do it.

I would prefer hodlin bitcoins because I know the returns will be much higher than the returns I get from investing in altcoins like bitcoincash, bitconnect and others but it wouldn't hurt to diversify my investments into other projects as its part of risk management.

Hold now or maybe you could try 75% hold of your bitcoin and 25% invest in trusted and selected alternative coins out there. Put your maximum trust and effort in bitcoin because with the price rising as high as 8,000 US dollars now it could be even 10,000 US dollars by the end of 2017 or at the start of 2018 based on the article I've read on the internet just recently imagine if you invested your money in the bitcoin in the past period of time how rich would you be right now.

Hold now or maybe you could try 75% hold of your bitcoin and 25% invest in trusted and selected alternative coins out there. Put your maximum trust and effort in bitcoin because with the price rising as high as 8,000 US dollars now it could be even 10,000 US dollars by the end of 2017 or at the start of 2018 based on the article I've read on the internet just recently imagine if you invested your money in the bitcoin in the past period of time how rich would you be right now.

I would suggest hold your bitcoin, why because you'll get price hike and free coins with every fork, say you had btc when the forks took place you already got free coins so why would you sell. Normally I don't like alts but you could put 5 - 10% of your money in bcc and Bitcoin gold however gold after a while, they also are giving good returns can't ignore the fact, however when they crash they crash bad and that's a risk you should be ready to undertake.

I am also suggesting the same holding the bitcoin will give good profit than investing them on other investments so hold your bitcoins as long as you can to get high profits.If you want to grow your bitcoins it is better to start trading buy coins at low price and sell them at the high price will allows us to get extra earnings but trading is not an easy job so learn trading skills before start trading.

In my opinion, if you don't have any experience with trading just don't invest BTC in other crypto. Bitcoin is more stable than other coins. Farther, coins like Bitcoin Gold are shity...

I think holding BTC will give you better ROI than investing in alts.

We should still try some alts they ate worth inveating especially if we are into specifuc businesa that needs aome benefits that alts can offer, but at the same time still have btc at save.

It is better to hold bitcoins because the altcoin investment are more risky we can't predict the prices of altcoin the price may fall at any time.
The bitcoin investment are the better investment in my view because research says bitcoin price will be doubled at the next year so better hold your bitcoins bro.

If you do not want to choose Altcoin then doing Bitcoin trading can be the best choice. I prefer to get a little profit but I can get it simultaneously, than I wait too long to get big profits. I am not a smart person to keep patience, I will make quick decisions because I think I can get the best results when I can take advantage of any momentum that exists.

Holding and investing should both be in bitcoin ! Because on the long term bitcoin is the most profitable out of all altcoins in the market , for example someone who invested 5k dollars 3 months ago has already made more than 3k dollars by now and is going to probably make even more if bitcoin's growing rhythm stays the same .
Bitcoin is the number 1 cryptocurrency in term of growth percentage  per year and is technically the safest one since we have seen how many times it risen again from a hard fall due to other cryptocurrencies peaks such as the latest one with bitcoin cash or the segwits .

I can tell by your question that you don't understand altcoins at all, forget about trading. Don't even think of altcoins unless you completely understand them. Else they gonna rob you off your money. Stay in Bitcoin and hodl for the moment. Trading is definitely profitable in short term but is also highly risky. Please, understand market first before jumping in. You might find these high return yielding altcoins that too in short period, tempting. But huge whales are working behind it. Learn it before trying.

That is why he is asking this kind of question and I think there is a reason behind it like if you are earning with bitcoin and you are in this forum I think you can sure learn a lot and know more, and because of the many ICO's that are providing us with bounty, Airdrops, and even Social media Campaigns I think many newbie's right now are getting involve in with other coins especially token, that is why he is asking something like these, and I really think because of the price of bitcoin many are not gonna invest with bitcoin because it is not cheap at all, and many would consider investing with Altcoins because of it's cheapest price or making a ROI by mining them.

The price of bitcoin seems to be highly volatile, getting into bitcoin trading gives profit and the same if some unexpected price pumping takes place you cannot overcome by any means. It is highly a risky thing to do at present if you're not that experienced. Even altcoins too does the same. For risk free profit holding is the right choice.

Whales obviously will always have an upper hand which is how they use every news to try to control the market movement as there will always be someone to respond to those movements and then, they make money from that. However, just as you have said, it is best to stay away from trading or any other investment as long as the party involved is not sure. It is one thing to want to trade and it is another thing to know how to trade.

yeah, I advise you to buy what you have. could be bitcoin prices even higher. moreover, the end of the year always shows a very good chart for bitcoin prices. investment is good for the future. but for now, it's better to restrain him.

Investment in production is a guaranteed income in the future. Retention of bitcoin well to form of primitive accumulation? In our lives there should be a bitcoin and Fiat. People tend to always look for simple solutions, but life does not give such possibility. I do believe that the retention of bitcoin is fatal for him and for all of us.

Well, as far as what have been observed trading has no boundaries and most of the investors didn't focus with one currency. Even though they had enough holdings of btc, they still prefer to invest with altcoins because they also thought that profit will be doubled if the coins that they've been holding will substantially increase to the highest value someday. Of course that's what everybody's hoping for, but how long will it takes to achieve that? The answer is uncertain yet because nobody can predict when is the exact month or day, and even those who always kept an eye always depend of the current graph trend of the tradings sites where their coins have trading activities.

Hold bitcoin if you eye for long term goals. That's it.

If you want to diversify your earnings, you need to face the risks of investing on other altcoins. What coins should be considered here? It's up to you to make a research so that no one could be blame if someone told you to invest on "this" coins. Where you can profit more? Again up to you because your profit will depend on your strategy and not our strategy. I suggest that gather basic knowledge first before engaging in actual trades so that you really know what you are doing.

There isn't such a thing as risk free profits with Bitcoin. If that was the case, every person buying himself into Bitcoin would be in the green already. In most cases people can't handle this market mentally, especially not when they invest with money that isn't meant to be invested, and that's exactly where the main risk lies. Everything is all right when the market is going up nicely, but things get a whole lot more serious for people when the market is tanking, and thus them seeing their initial investment lose value quickly. Another aspect that plays a role is people cashing out profits, where they then buy back their coins at much higher levels. The more often you do that, the lower your coin coint becomes -- it's called capital destruction.

Holding will give your good profits in long term so its better to invest some bitcoins in altcoins and try to multiply them quick and if you have invested in good altcoin after doing a good research then you will be growing your bitcoins in short term so instead of keeping bitcoins idle in wallet its good to use them in trading where you can make regular profits.

Depend on the market usually by investing you can get more profit, but there is a chance that you are going to lose your money and alt coin usually got a one time up, you need to wait for a long time to see it go up again, holding is more secure but if you got skill investing is better

If you hold I guess you are investing on it.
If you thought to say about trading you can earn really good profit with the fluctation if you know what you are doing; but if you hold
you don't have to worry about the downsing of the currency but the upsing to get rid of them.

finally, holding is better than you do trading if you have no experience about that,, maybe trading is the fastest way to get profit, but dont look the profit only, look the risk that could happened and obstacle behind the trading. trading seem easy but in fact, it's not as easy as  it look.

There is no doubt that trading is risky if you are new to it but you can always learn it and invest small capital at first stage as its important to gain practical experience and as you are new to it you are bound to make mistakes at the initial stage so it would be good to start with a small amount and after gaining knowledge and experience you can start increasing your capital as if you get thorough knowledge of it then it will be the best way to earn bitcoins regularly.

I'm still holding bitcoin, I believe that by the end of the year it will grow, but it's not certain. Someone says that soon the correction will be

Even if there is downfall in the price in coming days it will recover back and will be higher at the end of the year so the best thing right now is it collect as many as you can and hold it till the end of the next month as even bitcoin experts have shared their opinion that it will achieve the price of $10k in this year and selling at that price would be the best decision to make.

I Suggest if you want to invest bitcoin it is also worth it because even  the price is very high they have possible the price will increase more so even you buy high price you can make some profit. Altcoin is also to make a lot of profit because some altcoin as of now the price is cheap but for sure after few years the price will become high but choose wisely potential altcoin.

There are few altcoins which will have more value in future and its worth to hold those coins for a longer period of time and if you have invested money in bitcoins and have some balance in your wallet then its good to hold it for next few years as the users of bitcoins are increasing now and that will help in taking price much higher in future.

That just caps it all. It is one thing to want to invest and it is another thing to be sure of where one is really investing. For someone who is not really sure of how or where to invest, I guess holding for dear life just seems to be the best option so as not to end up losing what one has already.

After all, for someone who has plans for investment and is so sure about his decisions, then investment is just perfect as you keep increasing in quantity and in value.

Bitcoin is future currency so you will know the process before invest. So you will get the more information and learn the bitcoin pricess information. Bitcoin will improve your knowledge. so you will know hold or invest. First you will check the market place. it give more information for the price list. Then you will know where to invest. 

We all have seen how btc grew. Regardless of the bad rumors going, there aint no stopping btc from going up to the 5 digits. So i guess its clear that the best answer to this is hold.

It's the best to hold bitcoin while you can and if you can avail to keep on holding it better to stay with that plan. But if you are not comfortable and contented by just holding your bitcoin and you want to invest into some other altcoin. Please stay away from bitconnect, it's not a real investment that's a ponzi so don't promote or put your money in there because you are helping them to stay as a ponzi.

Holding Bitcoin is also an investment that yield return over time as a result of the increase in the value of Bitcoin. And investing in some altcoins will also serve the same purpose but i don't believe in Bitcoin Gold and Bitcoin Cash that much for me to invest high percent of my money them for a long time but rather invest in ethereum, lisk, ripple etc.

Bitcoin is future currency so you will know the process before invest. So you will get the more information and learn the bitcoin pricess information. Bitcoin will improve your knowledge. so you will know hold or invest. First you will check the market place. it give more information for the price list. Then you will know where to invest.  

Bitcoin is the best to inverse your money. You will inverse now means, surely you will get profit when the price raise. I am a trader for more than 1 year.In trading you should be patience to get profit from it. My opinion is holding bitcoin always greater than investing. If you had plan to inverse when the price was 8200$,you have to inverse 8200$.But if you brought at 8200$ and hold and then sell at 9000$,you will get 800$ as a profit itself.

I don't understand why you consider investing in such shitcoins like bitcoin gold.We already know that BCH is a pumped coin.Only aspect which is stopping its price from being crashed is roger ver pumping it continuously.Bitcoin's price is $8,383 and it is fair enough to hold.Bitcoin also does not see any threats and so it is expected to move in bullish trend through out this year.So,just hold your bitcoins.

I am holding my bitcoins since last 2 years and don't have any plan to sell at a moment but I have invested few bitcoins in altcoins from where I am generating regular profits and later on I withdraw those profits and save it in my wallet keeping my capital intact on trading sites so it can grow my bitcoins faster and later on will sell when it becomes more expensive.

Well, what works for one party may not work for the other. Anyone who is smart with investments will actually be ready to make quality investment decisions. It requires being careful when it comes to investment. HODLing on the other hand is one thing that at least is certain to keep growing on its one when one is not sure of the investment decision to take.

No one would definitely tell you what to do with your funds as the decision is yours. Apparently, investment is very good as you get to increase what you have at the end and who does not want that but what you invest in is what is important and if you feel it makes your heart skip and you are not sure about it, then it is best you HODL and watch the value grow.

The best you gonna do right now is to hold your bitcoin and for sure after few weeks you will earn more profit becauss the bitcoin will continue to increase for sure. But if you want to invest in alt you can but it's better if you use the extra money that you have in your wallet right now.

This is totally up to your financial status. Some people can't afford holding bitcoin because they always need cash and they cash their bitcoin out regularly. For the rest, it's the best when they hold their bitcoin in long term.

Holding bitcoin is really profitable especially this year because tge price of bitcoin keeps on rising.  I have invested in alt once and unfortunately the project didn't succeed,  I keep on joining signature campaigns to continue trading and earning bitcoin.  Most of my bitcoins comes from trading so its my main source since I cannot afford mining.  To hold or invest are good ways to  earn  bitcoin but for now I will concentrate in trading more.