The main portfolio that i hold but sometimes i do trade with other promising altcoins are as follows:
Bitcoin (The main course of my investments), Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Monero, Zcash, Waves, BCH (I sold most of this because i felt that it will pop out some how)

Some of them that is not mentioned are just my initial portfolio because I'm just playing safe with the top coins but looking for the possibilities that they will go up somehow, I'm planning to Invest for some tokens somehow gotta try Angel tokens.

The trend is real for the possible future of money, Even in my local country Philippines there are a total of 4 bitcoin ATM's right now that is operating for the transaction of buying and selling bitcoins, the locations if i remember correctly are Makati, Quezon City and 2 machines in Taguig City making it 4 total btc ATM machine, my local is a bitcoin friendly country that is recognized by the Philippine Central Bank no wonder why it is growing because when i first learn btc there is just only 1 btc atm machine.

Well this is a good news that Asian countries are continuing to adapt to this currency and I'm expecting that this will happen to the neighboring nations as well as the whole Asia except China of course because we know what's happening there.

Wait for the next fork there will be a bitcoin copper like really they are running out for ideas and some people tend to invest to this such coin btc have a lots of forks last years so this is normal event for btc, we can't complain because we can get money without doing anything just by owning the private key added that you own a lots of btc like thousands of it you will surely rich on heaven, some of them are beneficial to the original, some disappeared out of thin air and some wants to dominate and claim that they are the true bitcoin.

Yes the people who are the pioneers of the bitcoin community that still holds their btc till now is like on the bell curve of god tier which is totally awesome to resist any kinds of temptations done by the past pumps, look they are multi millionaires now.

But for me we are in the curve between early majority to Late majority the Laggards will be our future grand sons and daughters but if you are smart enough you will save and hold a bunch of btc for their future like what your doing for sure if the btc strikes the highest price that it can attained that would be the greatest thing that we will give to them that can be a form as a last testament or what ever you can call it.

Well that's good for you because i sold my 0.8 btc last Saturday night where btc is still recovering from the attack and spam of the network that push me to conclusion that this will be the best thing to do that time and that is to sell, well i'm hesitated at first but i jump to the conclusion now I regret what i did but that's fine because i learned my lesson.

Now for me I think there will be no big dips that's gonna happen this coming days or months as the btc will have a stability range of $8000 plus lower to $7000, this is just my opinion and many of the people speculated that it will hit 10k this year so just go with a little dips then hold.

Any article links or news site about that? anyway bitcoin is still in experimental and premature phase but Blockchain is a promising system that the majority of the businesses and companies will adapt or upgrade their current system in the near future and that will be the first step for the innovation of the transparency, authenticity and speed that will benefit millions of people who are using or transacting to their services.

I think bitcoin just expands the opportunities that is created by the internet to help people that is jobless because you can earn money from your home ever since the bitcoin is still in development by Satoshi and for me a fiat money is still a better medium for salary as you get the exact price that you've wok so hard.

But don't get me wrong as bitcoin already helps thousands or even millions of peoples in different ways most likely for their home based job platforms and freelancing services the only problem with this is the volatility and the transactions fees that sometimes you need to make it higher just to confirm it, some transactions takes almost days.

That is why you need to plan for holding your coins because there's a vast of opportunities that is coming just by holding and this events will happen soon, we can't deny the fact that there are some emergency and situations that we badly needed a money and that will result for selling some or all of your btc, that's why you need to do an alternative methods like savings, working on a physical jobs, risking a portion of your btc to trading so that you will not gonna spend all of your sleeping btc on your cold storage pocket. Prevention is better than cure they've said.

Bashing and accusing bitcoin all along and then created their own blockchain technology "Quorum" which the technology that the bitcoin is using and based on. It's really the opposite of what he is doing it is like hey lets ruin the bitcoin but please support our developed system that is based on blockchain which is where the btc is based on.

Now the karma is real, the saying what you saw you will reap is what's happening to Jamie Dimon. What you said that bitcoin is fraud and it is a mere tool for money laundering is what's really your doing right?

But not as long as the stock markets, Imagine you need to wait for years to see some promising results for your assets to grow, but crytocurrency like bitcoin can be a short time investments but that will always depends to the person and the events that is happening to the market.

Well the best way to grow your investments to crypto these days is a long term one and for the short term investments are for the altcoins, the safe way to maximize your profits is just simply by hodling but if you want to take the risk and you have plenty of bitcoins of your own you can go for trading.

The upgrade to the bitcoin network might be the solution for the scaling that the Lightning network can provide yet it still on alpha phase development at some point, this would benefit the micro payments of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that features peer to peer transactions systems.

Andreas Antonopoulos provide a great explanation about the bitcoin scalability
You can check this Video https://youtu.be/AecPrwqjbGw

The two of them have a very different angles and aspects to earn digital coins from different people's perspective and situation, it is because some of them earn more a lot easier from mining than trading because they are into technical and networking stuff as well as a good researcher to target a promising coin to mine utilizing the mining electricity and equipment but some of them failed in mining thus experienced to earn more from trading because they have a better understanding and knowledge about how trading works in crypto.

So for the Op's question was always depends in your skills and situation yes mining takes a lot of time to earn the ROI but if the electricity bill is promising to be cheaper it will be the opportunity to gear some small mining rigs and the income is a sure ball. Trading can also be profitable and can generate fast results but the problem with this is you need to watch the market too often and the risk is high because the market is not stable you can lose your money easily.

I usually do an investments that cost me around $200 to $500 per ICO, that would be risky if you just dump your pennies out of them without reading the white paper and without conducting a proper research about their project, their coin and the background of their team which will have a big role for an ICO.

If I've found out that they really have a strong foundation and dedication to win the project added by the supporters and the purpose of the coin i will invest $1000 because it boost my confidence that my investments will grow up because of the trust that they are building to the clients. Well I'm looking forward for my Sig campaign Angel Token because they have a pretty good team and still reading the White paper so far so good.

Satoshi Nakamoto did a wonderful system of a currency that is almost the opposite of the central banking that we know it fails the economy that is why he created this innovative and unique way of a currency implementing of what is the available technology right now and that is the Internet.

Making it more Special is the way how volatility really works as for a trader it is a stunning to see a percentage of a crypto moves so fast, it was like any minute it can go a tremendous pump but sometimes a dump with a negative red percentage beating the stock markets about how fast the result can you achieve and how much can you earn a profit from in just a matter of days but that depends solely to your gambling in risk and emotion.

This coin is still premature to make a nation impact the transformation or change of the economy as we know some of them prohibitively or strictly implemented some measures for the use of it to the point that some countries bans the exchanges and coinbase.

Some of the impact is pretty negative and some are positively progressive that's why some countries prohibits or regulated some ICO's and some crypto because some petty criminals are using this for their illegal transactions and Ponzi schemes all because of its feature anonymity.

But because of its transparency it can impact the Government by setting a wallet that is designated for them or for their Department letting them sign the wallet to prove the ownership and the funds thus making it more public eliminating corruption and stealing people's tax.

Another thing is the business, company and banks adaptation towards the blockchain technology making the transaction more efficient, decentralized, public and faster but as I've said it is still premature that needs further developments and improvements.

Even in technological advancement I've seen some elders who adapted to computers, smartphones and uses of the internet. they even beat the millennials in terms of knowledge about it, how come it is too late for them to relay and invest to the new technology/system for currency that is being served to us.

I heard some stories to my office mates that they taught and introduced to their grandparents the uses of bitcoin and some cryptocurrencies and why it is a good investments mostly for the senior citizens, their response is fascinating because they have very good feedback about it. I remember it is way back January 2016 so they probably earning right now just by hodling.

Having the belief to btc will not gonna put us in vain and it looks like the BCH bubble is slowly popping out, getting the price from $3000 down to $1000 that still continues to dump.

The transaction will also slowly getting back to normal as I tested out to pass a some sats to my Friends wallet and got confirmed within 1 hour so it is not bad because i used to increase the transaction fee a bit.

It looks like that this attack make's bitcoin more expensive as it is getting to $8000 very soon because btc suddenly jumps to a price of $7454 which is a promising one.

Simple answer, To earn more money from it, To use it for his personal propaganda and a tool for the power and authorship of this system claiming and declaring it as his patent. A clever but at the same time a desperate move for a businessman like him to claim such thing that anyone can do that.

Just read the white paper of bitcoin, study cryptography and you can do a self proclaimed drama that you are Satoshi the author of the very first cryptocurrency, the real one will never gonna reveal his/her identity to the public we don't also know if Satoshi is still alive or not.

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Nope It is because even they are early adopters some of them messed up their bitcoin and made a huge mistakes and loses. Why? the hype is really tempting when you are a pioneers of bitcoin where the price is still small and can be afford by ordinary citizens, some of the buy the FOMO of other altcoins and some them believe in the FUD that is spreading that time what is their reaction? panic selling missing out the big opportunity that is already happening now and that is the edge for the late adopters they learn from their mistakes and continues to hodl.