Bitcoin Forum

Only started a month ago and bought $110 of Bitcoin (0.0063) and $270 Litecoin (1.0124).  My question is should I use my Bitcoin and buy ETH or maybe even use some of my Litecoin along with Bitcoin and buy ETH.  Im not wanting to increase the amount I'm investing until I get more comfortable with how the exchanges and wallets work or any other stuff so for now just going to stick with the original $380 investment.

I'm thinking about maybe once I buy some ETH taking that and investing in some ETHOS.  I know I started with a low amount and will increase that over the coming months, my main goal is to buy some and just HODL.  Any suggestions?

I think you can buy ETH with Litecoin if you have

the ETH will keep growing, and growing very fast,,,, don't ask me why, just check the daily new ICO project in the ANN forum!!!

So I should hold the Bitcoin instead of the litecoin?

Nobody knows what's "best" and you shouldn't take advice from this forum. Most people are at least as, if not even more clueless than you are on here.

ICOs are riskier but have higher returns. BTC is the safest. ETH has recently increased by quite a bit while Bitcoin has gone back down to November valuations. Bitcoin and Litecoin are both getting the Lightning Network soon, which will make them the quickest and cheapest coins to use. Ethereum has an entirely different use case being a token platform.

In general, analyze the potentials and risks of different coins/assets that interest you when investing and then balance your portfolio according to your goals.

I always keep Bitcoin cos it is the 1st coin!

but the litecoin, I don't know where is the appreciation space

I would maybe split up, half eth half bitcoin. Anyway in both cases I expect growth, but of course no one can predict which is the best choice

Agreed wholeheartedly. ETH is probably a safe investment though, long term anyway and BTC is an all around safe investment.

At the end of the day no one can make a decision for him though, so.

Yes,ethereum has very good potential, it will keep growing and growing.Ethereum is very safe investment.Just check new ICO.

 Will ethereum is good to hold to a long term but not quetly big profit if you hold him not like bitcoin.If you lucky your 1bitcoin will reach 2000$ dollars its a jackpot!!.But im not sure isnt good to buy this time..check the price

I would you use gold to buy silver!  Bitcoin is cryptocurrency gold!  You must always treasure your bitcoin 

I recently bought BTC almost the same amount as yours at $11k rate and I haven't converted it to ETH yet. I am not sure but maybe because ETH's value now isn't dropping to $1k. If only ETHs value is within 800 to almost 1k value, I'd probably buy ETH using my BTC.

Buy Ripple or Stellar are safer. ETH is safer and more potential than BTC in 2018.

There are many good coins out there and Eth of course at the present time has a lot of attention. Also check out new coins like EOS, VEN and ICON. They will also have some good market share and exchange coins like COSS will have a future too. Fintech coins like POPULOUS will also be skyrocketing soon as they roll out their beta in a few days time before the end of January. Ardor and Stratis are also other good platforms along with NEO of course.

If there is any coin that you should always hold it is BTC, IMO there are alot of competing platform now that is likely going to give Ethereum good run for its money, NEO is doing that now and ICON and Boscoin are coming up

Do not buy Ether at this rate, You may ended up loosing your money. Wait for the dip and then buy.

In this period it is better stay in bitcoin because after every dump it is reached to 2x.
I am almost sure that it will again reach 17-18k in a short time. after that you can buy ethereum with your bitcoin

How about you try things out for yourself?
You can approach it kind of like a research experiment

Keep track of how much fiat you have spent on what currencies, then use them to buy more eth, keep track of prices, fees, etc.
Wait a week, measure how much growth there was and how much profit.
Then compare that to what you would have if you would have just left things as they are.

Doing stuff like this gives you valuable insight and knowledge and will empower you to make your own decisions in trading.
If you don't, you could find yourself making too many decisions because their are too many bits of advice out there.

With that being said, BTC, ETH, and LTC all have tons of room to grow still and they are the three most liquidable currencies so any of them would be great really.

It may better for you to search the new coin that already listed in small exchange site. But ethos also looks good in my opinion. The bad thing if you are investing your amount in bitcoin and litecoin and you will never get a lot of roi for your investment. only big player can take the advantages of bitcoin and litecoin. I think you are understand about that.

From Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum, ETH is most stable coin in past 3 months.

Looks like BTC is over various attacks and speculation. But ETH have the power of ICO projects behind.

If you have both then why not hold both of them? I would keep Bitcoin over Litecoin if I had to choose just one of them.

Try all things here in crypto like exchange of course you btc to eth because base on the potential of it the price can be so high in the future and also it's have different move to grow like in token that they give in airdrop or new tokens in some exchanger so you need to buy ETH.Nowadays eth stay in the price but if you already here in january 2017 i think the price are 7x high by now.

It is on your hands in this case the decision maker is you because no can say which is the best crypto currency because its value changes everyday so if you want to invest in something read and see the previous history of that .

I would just hold your Bitcoins, it's actually the safest option for value storage (in crypto space). Also I was researching Ethereum before and the project seems to have some performance problems like Bitcoin. But I believe Bitcoin is in a further stage of solving this problem than Ethereum is, as the core developers already implemented SegWit to allow Lightning network transactions in the future. Ethereum is still experimenting a lot with solutions like Sharding, but there doesn't seem to be a definitive solution yet.

I would just hold to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the best coin and the price right now is very low. I don't think Bitcoin will go under 10000$, so it is not wise to sell right now.

Ethereum is a better option than bitcoin in my opinion. But bitcoin include a lot of magic. it is hard decision.

my suggestion is better HOLD some ethereum, as this is also a very important altcoin
i also often use ethereum because of the ease in fast transaction and also one of the coin that support when we join bounty or airdrop

Just hold on your MEW wallet, I'm sure there will be a time when you will need it

I would buy only Ethereum.It's just my opinion, as for me ethereum is more stable

What would you choose from these two coins, you will remain in the plus) I Personally think that this year's ETH will show good results.

Diversification is always a good sign in my opinion, so yeah, I suggest sell some of your btc or ltc to buy some eth.

Don't use your Litecoin for buying any of them now. Price of Litecoin started to decrease so that will not be a wise idea if you'll spend it for other coins. And if you want ETHOS then why you need to sell your bitcoins>ETH>ETHOS? You can directly buy bitcoin>ETHOS but if I were you if I have some spare money I'll try to add some fund and will let LTC and BTC sleep for now and use that fund for buying ETH or ETHOS while waiting for the other two to pump.

It will depend on the time you plan to hold ethereum, for example, if you want quick profit there are other altcoins that can match with this option, but if you seek in comfort zone buy Ethereum is a good investment. Remembering that is just my opinion.

No dont do that. Just hold your bitcoin, soon it will pump, promise

The choice is yours as these digital currencies are the 2 top cryptos in the cryptoworld. Both of them are a good investments  and can give you also good profit. It's only a matter of time that these cryptos will rise once again after being so stagnant for the last couple of days.

eth holds good because it is longterm and not merely chasing its price for the reason that it supports him it's better to hold first the eth because that's the future coin

I suggest you diversify your investments, it's always safer to have more options. I used to only have bitcoin and now 50% I diversify, keep an eye on exchange rates and growth rates of various different currencies, if not for trading right away but to learn about them to see bigger picture!

You can try both, but I think you should buy Eth from the Litecoin you have, because so far the Eth movement has a higher potential than Litecoin. all the money you invest in Ltc, you can switch to Eth because Eth's current price movement has greater growth potential.

No one can tell what coin is going to increase in price more, but I think that you should read about Ethereum and about Bitcoin and think what coin makes you feel more interested and what coin you think that has a brighter future.

It's hard to compare between them because the main purpose of Ethereum is to make smart contracts and for Initial coin offering, while the main purpose of bitcoin is to transfer funds and to act as a store of value.

It's not a large amount, then I would just suggest you to go with your heart.

Hold to what you already have. The amounts are small and there is no point of paying transaction fees. Bitcoin's price is going up, so just have some patience.

None of us see the future, so the safest thing you can do is to divide your portfolio into several coins.

For my own opinion you should buy eth with your bitcoin because eth is a good investment it is rapidly growing it will give you more profits.

In my opinion you can take a half of bitcoin to buy ethereum to gain more profits.Ethereum price nowadays is going high.

If I had bitcoin I would definitely invest at least half of it in Etherium. Bitcoin is history and I don't see it on the top of the list anymore in the next 1 year or so. I mean look at all these token projects, almost all of them run on Etherium blockchain. And if that doesn't tell you something I don't know what will.

It's up to you both are good and profitable coin with different uses, again don't let anyone affect your decision , Eth at the moment is standing still and no sign of backing up or slowing down, while bitcoin is unstable we can never tell as bitcoin price sometime shoot up for no apparent reason, it's good choice if you just 50/50 your budget.

Ethereum has a higher chance of gaining more % which is why you would want to change to them. Point is that you have many ICOs comming around ETH and they are accepting ETH and some accept other cryptos. But for whole thing to work they are tied to ethereum which creates a nice but wall at end it could hit 2k mark or so why not.

You have a big portion of LTC in your portfolio. Maybe you may consider buying ETH with LTC (or with some of it) rather that with BTC.
Ether is a good hold. Every portfolio should have it.

I completely agree. Two crypto-currencies in the investment portfolio is a very low degree of diversification.
It is optimal to have 10-20 coins in your portfolio.
In this case, if even the price of one of the coins falls drastically, then this affects the total value of the portfolio not so much.

Probably Ethereum will recover faster, but I would keep the Bitcoin. The amounts are very small and will not make much of a difference.

Why not ethereum have a high chance to gain percentanges (pump up) in this year even theres a problem that we need to fix in ethereum network but for me its better to split your investment into three or five altcoin to avoid losing your capital choose a gopd altcoin with a high chance to boom in the market like eos litecoin and eth.

Both Bitcoin and Ethereum are the leaders right now on the market charts. I believe that in this year Bitcoin and Ethereum will grow to the very big amount of the value comparable to the dollar. Bitcoin will for sure double its current price which makes it suitable for the long-term investment.

Right now the Ethereum and the Bitcoin are pumping to the top equally but the Ethereum has the higher chance of profit gain for you. The price of the Ethereum can grow ten times more because the current status of the value is still low in the eyes of the investors.

I am supporting both cryptos and I can't say exactly what is the best option for you because it is your decision in the end. I can only recommend you the portion of the temporally investment into the Ethereum till it reaches the suitable amount.

Since the Litecoin is constantly on the Bitcoins trail I would suggest to you that you hold that Litecoin and trade Bitcoin for the Ethereum because you will gain bigger profit on a yearly basis if you keep your Litecoin that is still on a low price.

ETHEREUM is the best option now you invest it. You will get more profite end of this year

It is based on whether your investment is for short term or long term. However, what you've invested is perfect but if you choose to buy ethereum with the investment already you have, I suggest you to buy from litecoin if it is long term. If it is a short term, go for ethereum from bitcoin since ethereum transaction fees is far better that bitcoin if you want to convert that in to fiat.

The best idea is to invest Fiat now (if you have it).
The second option, buy for litecoin, do not waste bitcoin right now

I think in 2018 best to have both coins and transfer your balance only if you want to participate in fork and receive free coin like : bitcoincash,bitcoin gold or etherium zero.

I did it :) i buy with my half of bitcoin balance and waiting to hit 0.2 btc will hodl for maybe years but i am sure its going to hit 0.2 btc
anyways i am going to be always in profit against of USD

eth and btc, both are very important coins. i think no need to buy only eth or only btc. if you can trade with using btc or eth it will help you to increase your  eth or btc value. for trading you can use good exchanges.

Yes, my suggestion is buy Ethereum with Bitcoin you have because Bitcoin is now in the price fixing phase on the market, the risk of decreasing is greater than Ethereum

As i am seeing the crypto market value now, ethereum is the most stable coin for investment. You can split up your investment, half of your bitcoin to convert into eth and half of your litecoin into eth. Its your choice, do what you think that is fit in your investment.

Of course you need to buy and bitcoins and ether. And in the best case you need to buy and then most of all these coins. Because in the future they will only grow, and they will grow only because of the fact that the media have very much taken up the promotion of these crypto-currencies. I think people have learned to do anti-PR.

You should keep some ETH, however, just wait a moment now because bitcoin has decreased these days. You should use BTC to buy ETH when BTC increases a little.

personally I think for now you should not buy ETH by using bitcoin as we know today bitcoin value is in decline where you will not get any points on what you do by buying ETH by using. I think you should buy ETH by using another altcoin and that has a high enough value. and I suggest to you at this point you should be better able to hold the bitcoin you have until the price will actually increase. and this is my only advice all the decisions will certainly have in your hands the most important you continue to monitor the continuous movement of the price of crypto.

Many other good coins are out there such as EOS, VEN, ICON and COSS and many more. However, the ETH at present is taking more attention and hopefully gain more.

BTC seems to be the safest while it has gone back little bit during recent days and ETH has increased recently and has an entirely different use case being a token platform.

I might try this, maybe buy $120 of ETH then take $50 of ETH and invest in ETHOS or Cardano or something, that way I'm invested in 4 coins. Or that $120 would give me total $500 invested so I could split that between 5 coins at $100 each or 10 coins at $50 each and go off top 10 market cap, maybe throw a couple really cheap coins in there not in top 10.