It seems to me that if you invest in Zcash now, then by the end of the year you will get a small profit and therefore I would have better invested in BTC.

I do not advise you to invest in Zcash.  I think this is not a good choice.  I think by the end of the year the price for Zcash will not grow much.

With the upcoming improvements for ZCash, I think that it has a huge potential to increase in price in the future. Right now, it's been struggling to get past the $500 USD mark, but it's good in the sense that prices are relatively stable. Perhaps, once founder's reward period is over and ZEC enforces shielded transactions by default on the network, then prices will head above the $500 mark for sure.

It only needs time to improve itself to become one of the best privacy coins around in the market. Considering today's prices for ZCash, I think that it is quite a bargain, as it will become extremely valuable in the future.

Nevertheless, only time will tell what lies ahead for ZEC's future, but all we could do is invest and hodl our coins for the long term. Just my opinion

it's all the coins that I choose too but maybe we can add one more coin that is now being good waves because already many people who choose

Couldn't agree more with you, mate. ZCash is more ideal for short term investing, rather than using the same as a serious investment tool for the long term. When it first started, it was within the $1k range, but quickly dropped in value. It is up to this point, where ZEC has been having a hard time trying to rise back to its original levels, since it cannot provide innovation where other altcoins have taken the lead.

If ZEC would've implemented a cross-platform wallet with user friendliness in the first place, then it would've had a major interest from everyday people helping it gain momentum in the mainstream world. But, the way I see it, development for ZEC is too slow and it may take a couple of years (if it ever does) to see a real wallet become released for it.

Another thing, is that the privacy part of ZEC is not enforced by default, making the majority of transactions take place in the transparent area of it, instead of driving more usage towards Shielded Transactions. Those who are not tech savvy will believe that their transactions are being private, when in reality it is not (unless they use the Shielded Transactions feature). In this part, I think that Monero wins as it enforces privacy over every transaction, making it nearly impossible to track any balance within a block explorer. Just my thoughts

That is mostly true. But I believe, that most altcoins out there like Ethereum are just hype. Being an inflationary cryptocurrency, it is not meant to be a store of value, in which I believe that it is a little overvalued these days.

Considering that ETH, has violated the principles of immutability (which it is a key feature of the blockchain) and has shifted its view towards banks and big corporations, it may turn out to become centralized at some point in the future.

As for ZEC, it is also hype, as the only great feature it has is its anonymity technology, but lacks a GUI wallet and its inability to become used in other platforms like Windows and Mac. This certainly limits its ability to become mainstream, as people would want something easy to use without any prior technical knowledge involved.

But in the bright side, both ZEC and ETH have dedicated development teams (which most alts lack of), that will help them become more secure and deliver innovations as time goes by. If all goes well, then I expect for both cryptocurrencies to become mainstream. Just my thoughts. 

Last week (during whole week) there was a buy wall at the price of 0.03. I am not sure the exact quantity, but i think they bought more than 200 bitcoin equal Zcash at this price. I think this coin has the potential and will bring good profit for the investor in the future.

Speak for yourself.
And I seriously doubt that you have ever even invested in bitcoin or get anything apart from your signature spam payment.

The hype of ZEC had gone,  Just remaining a little whale waste his money to pump it sometimes. Interesting for watch it. 

wait a year after ZEC was running and we can make any conclusion about that.   

There is a lot of potential in the zero knowledge proof.
Depends on how we can be digging it.

Agree. I think that after the first four years of mining since launch of Zcash, we will be able to see its true price. Miners will keep mining for founders reward until the period of four years is over, which is why I think that by then the price of ZEC would stabilize.

If I were to pick the best Zero Knowledge Proof coin right now, it would be Komodo. It has pretty amazing features like dPoW which will make the network as strong as Bitcoin itself. Just sharing my thoughts. 

Yeah I think so too. In a few more years, ZCash would be worthless and become like the rest of the altcoins with a very low marketcap. Unless, ZCash brings something new and exciting, that would really increase its usability and acceptance of merchants around the world, then the dream of it becoming a very popular cryptocurrency would be very distant, thus resulting into other forks taking the lead like ZClassic.

Also, if ZCash didn't have the founders reward, then I'm pretty sure that the price would always had a positive uptrend on the markets, instead of constantly declining each day.

If you take a good look at ZCash, it is just another BTC clone with the only difference of having the ability to make anonymous transactions with a Z_address which separates itself from the t_address (which stands for transparent address). In my own opinion, this should've been implemented into Bitcoin the first place, instead of making another altcoin. 

Not right now but in the future I believe it might. Price discovery is impossible right now.

With 20k I would recommend to put a big part in bitcoin and leave it there as you could see even last night prices went up by approx. 20 USD which is a nice profit on this share.
Other big part of the money you could trade with and try to actively gain money over there.

that's a good idea to open lending service, it's profitable if you can get "good collateral" .
holding is good idea too, for secure long term project.

the price of altcoin do depend on its usage and demand , when a coin do not have any usage in the market then the price of it do not increase while if there some need occurred in the market for its usage then the price of it increases.

But before you can make a final definition about the mining is profitable or not after halving better to make calculate about it, if until this time mining is not profitable and why a lot of miners doesn't retire from this job?and still doing this job until this time?

yeah, trade is much better with that we can get double profit, the first profit as increased value of bitcoin and the other profit as the increased amount of bitcoin with us through trading.

with bitcoin technology it is possible to make around 1% daily(hardly) or normally about 0.5% of your money daily from trading

So SegWit could make or break the bitcoin. I do hope it is robust and make the bitcoin accessible to everybody,