bitcoin vs oil

[Stavri]

so which one is the better investment anyway? the answer is still BITCOIN. bitcoin has been proven to rise over time and also has bigger returns. but oil is not well known for being a good long term investment. many are also working to create substitute for oil for energy. so which one is your pick?

i cant say one of them is better but oil is a good investment only if your timing is very good. because oil price is being affected by politics too much. and it is very volatile. so it is not a good idea to invest in oil with a big portion of your money.

[iv4n]

so if we compare these two assets? which one comes out on top? which one should you invest in?

Why not invest in both? I guess the smart investing is all about diversifying...

People ask the same questions for decades... but there are no universal answers. I like a quote from Warren Buffett:

“If you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”

Every asset is volatile, but which one will yield the highest profits in 10 10-year span... All of us would like to know the answer to that question. Nobody knows... so we just need to make a choice and hope it was a good one. Time will tell who was right & who was wrong.

[DrBeer]

so which one is the better investment anyway? the answer is still BITCOIN. bitcoin has been proven to rise over time and also has bigger returns. but oil is not well known for being a good long term investment. many are also working to create substitute for oil for energy. so which one is your pick?

i cant say one of them is better but oil is a good investment only if your timing is very good. because oil price is being affected by politics too much. and it is very volatile. so it is not a good idea to invest in oil with a big portion of your money.

There is another nuance, and it favors Bitcoin.
If we are talking about direct investment of money in one of the assets.
Investing $1,000 in oil, for example, is more of a joke. The problem is that such a volume will not bring much profit, plus it will be extremely difficult to find a buyer for such a volume of oil. In other words, it is an illiquid asset in small quantities. With Bitcoin, everything is simpler. Even with an asset worth $1,000, you can play on the exchange, instantly converting it into other tokens or fiat currency. In seconds, with high liquidity.

[Mahiyammahi]

With as little as you have, you can purchase Bitcoin and keep accumulating as time goes on, but it's not the same with oil. You'd need a reasonable amount to oil assets.

You can hold bitcoin & Gold but you cant hold the asset OIL. In our country it's the government property. Also you can't buy and hold oil , cause it's purpose is not like gold and btc. There is no replacement of GOLD and BTC but for Oil there is lot of renewable energy sources like Solar , Hydro Energy , Wave energy. Oil sole purpose convert it's power to different energy sources. Although renewable energy is costly , but not completely waste of it. We can generate more in future.

As for the gold no one was able to produce artificially golds in lab , neither anything will be replaced for btc. So in terms of availability and easy purchase gold and btc is safest and first option to choose

[Cheema02]

Oil is not the type of investment I would love to make by buying/selling paper. If you are an oilman and in the oil business then good for you, climate change is real and I think we need to move to renewable energy but we do not have enough infrastructure for it yet so we still need oil and oil makes the world go round at the moment so we need oil companies for the time being.

But that doesn't mean that buying oil on some stock exchange type of thing and selling based on oil price is a good investment, that is a terrible one, plus oil prices do not go up that much, it is usually at around the same price. The smarter move would be comparing bitcoin to gold, at least that goes up with time if you wait long enough.

Yes, you're right the reality of today's energy and investment landscape. As many people thought, Oil may be replaced in future with some other renewable energy resources but it is just speculation and oil still powers the global economy. As renewable infrastructure is not yet sufficient and properly works so still oil companies can make profits regularly. And oil replacement is just the thumbnail of the newspaper and nothing more. If we saw history we analyzed that oil prices do not jump quickly but it will remain constant for long intervals of time. On the other hand assets like gold and Bitcoin shows upward trend over time. So the purpose is that if we want to invest money we should go towards gold and Bitcoin because their prices jump over time as compared to oil companies because oil prices still remain constant for a long period.

[sleepfirefly]

But you are right, oil market could be a viable option. However I'd say the easiest market for people to enter (after bitcoin) is the precious metals market. To put simply, just buy gold as diversification

there are a lot of options to choose from and diversification of our assets is one that is important but due to limited funds can’t be easily achieved

aside from bitcoin and metals people usually go for stocks or real estate so it depends on your capabilities and your risk tolerance