Holding of bitcoin and holding of btc has lots of difference. So, its the user who decides based on the necessity. For the one who expects an increased income with much risks in it prefer bitcoin, while the people who expect security for the holdings unlike the profiting prefers gold. This tendency might change when bitcoin gives an assurance of 100% risk free in terms of hacking and other encounters.

If you're looking to make any sort of profit from cryptocurrency and you're just starting out, what do you think is the minimum starting investment you ought to put into it?

Yes, I know "you should only put in what you're willing to lose" but surely there should be a barest minimum, right?

EDIT: If you don't mind sharing, how much did you start with?

Bitcoin phenomenon is predicted to be more massive in the future. In fact, the digital currency is mentioned in the middle of a bubble economy or economic bubble.
how do you think?

Kalau ane sih punya 1 akun dan untuk mengoprasikan ya tidak perlu waktu tertentu,ya paling kita buka ya diwaktu luang aja tapi bisa juga diwaktu2 kita lagi istirahat.jadi waktu untuk buka forum btc ngak terlalu ribet juga kalau menurut saya gan,yang terpenting kita selalu online untuk mengerjakan tugas dari project yang kita ikutin...

sangat bagus ide kamu gan, dengan adanya komunitas di berbagai daerah di indonesia, maka akan bertambah banyak peminat bitcoin baru yang akan masuk ke dalam dunia cryptocurrency gan. SALUT

Bittrex is pretty nice. Once you get fully verified you'll be able to withdraw heaps of bitcoins. However you can't buy bitcoin for cash on bittrex. For that I use btcdirect.eu

betul itu gan, cuman perbedaanya resiko. kalau emas nak turunya sedikit dan kebanyakan naik walau harga naiknya gak terlalu banyak. sedangkan bitcoin kenaikan dan penurunan bisa setiap detik gan, dan terkadang bisa naik maupun turunnya sangat tinggi. sehingga resikonya besar, tetapi untungnya juga besar 

Bitcoin was sailing along nicely yesterday and apart from the usual technical issues that accompany Bitcoin and other alts there was generally a positive outlook for Bitcoin. Suddenly the markets went crazy when the rumors came out that China would ban Exchanges from trading in Bitcoin. Personally I am getting fed up with China news having such a big influence on Bitcoin. Nobody knows now for the next few days now what is likely to happen and whether Bitcoin will fall hard should this rumor turn out to be true. What will be the result? - a significant fall followed by longer term stability perhaps. Either way we can't keep having this uncertainty if Bitcoin is going to get acceptance in the general community.

the problem is most people can not be patience when they are trap in one price and they are in panic situations, they don't think too much and they only want their btc back even if they are only get loss. many of us having this experience and some of us choose to waiting the price is back and not sell because we know if we are selling our coins then we can get loss in money value.

Not everybody has a problem gambling, but if you are a problem gambler, there is a support network they may help you. It starts with you recognizing the problem.

Start here:
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Let's work on this together, you're not alone and you don't need to suffer from your addiction. If you have solutions or have the compassion to provide moral support, please help by participating in this thread.

Bitcoin has many advantages itself by just being a digital currency. You can take it anywhere with you around the globe and you can use it or cash it out anywhere because it is also a global currency.

Dibilang mungkin atau tidak sih mungkin aja bisa terjadi di masa depan tapi kalau untuk sekarang ini belom ada yang bisa menyaingi bitcoin, terutama di harga bitcoin yang terus melonjak keatas yang kalo dibandingkan dengan cryptocurrency yang lain susah untuk naik terus. Mungkin 5 atau 10 tahun lagi ada koin baru yang bener2 bisa menyaingi bitcoin.

Apakah para bitcoin mampu menyaingi mata uang yang sah atau yang diakui oleh sebuah negara.

10 years is a lot of time and i can say that it is very possible for the price of bitcoin to reach up to 250,000 USD in just 10 years because we can see a lot of improvements for bitcoin in these coming years and it will improve the system of bitcoin which will result for another pump in the price and it will repeat until the price reaches more than 250,000 USD.

Point A government's sets bitcoin bann not because they know what bitcoin is and what the bitcoin is, the government is told what it is bitcoin and so on but the government keeps claiming bitcoin as a threat to banking.
Point B government claims bitcoin as a tool to launder money.
Point C government see unstable prices
Just opinion

This is going to happen for sur on the midyear of 2018. Everything is going smooth even the fact that bitcoin just recently had a split event this august so I know 10k is reachable.

To trade you need big amount of money to feel the profit and for mining you have to buy necessary equipment, which is not so cheap, so, you have to look at all pluses and minuses of both methods to decide what is better to you.
Overall if you want to trade, you at least have to know technical analyze

Speculation is opinion of individual person and such can be taken how you think is good for you. If you think that this or that speculation can be good for your investment and buy/sell opportunity you will use it or you wont. This is how thing are working you will accept that or you wont accept it. This is mostly what you want to hear not what it will be.