Bitcoin Investment

[StanChan]

I am looking to make some investments using BTC. I have looked briefly at the Ziggap and S.DICE. After wading through a few pages of posts, I'm still not sure if there is still an investment opportunity in these(the posts seem out of date).

What proven investments would you guys recommend?

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[nonnihilnitoris]

I'd invest in bitcoins themselves and also gold/silver. You can cash out your BTC when it's high and silver is low, like *right now* for example. Silver has been around $35-40 but now it's $28. BTC was $15 and now it's $35.

Therefore, if you bought $1000 worth of BTC @ $15, traded for $28/oz silver @ $35/coin, then sold again when silver hits $40 this year, you would have multiplied your initial investment by more than 3x in a matter of months.

[SneakyNinjA]

Where do you trade USD for bitcoins, then to Silver/Gold?
Or do you mean through multiple exchanges?

[Monster Tent]

Where do you trade USD for bitcoins, then to Silver/Gold?
Or do you mean through multiple exchanges?

Coinabul.com is pretty good for silver.

Theres a few Silver funds on the exchanges.

[Crazytrucker]

Buy a miner!  The new BFL labs ones look amazing

[Lethn]

There are various stock exchanges and the like cropping up but very little in the way of any real investment going on right now, here's some ones I've been probing lately but I'd wait until something as decentralised as Bitcoin comes along because these all look like they can get taken down easily.

https://btcjam.com/ - You can lend coins to people here

https://cryptostocks.com/ - This stock exchange has been up for awhile now without being taken down

https://1broker.com/?m=3 - You can trade options here, this looks to be one of the more legal ones but you do use margin when doing it, it works like forex trading

https://a-ads.com/ - If you want to get into advertising at all, I recommend Anonymous Ads, a good way to get ads onto peoples sites without annoying the fuck out of visitors

There was an stock exchange called GLBSE awhile ago that got taken down because of legal problems, either it was fraud or something else but I don't know much about what happened, we're going to need a lot of decentralised stuff that is peer to peer otherwise these sites will probably get taken down too.

[ngocbktp1]

https://cryptostocks.com/

[tphyahoo]

You might want to look at the alt currencies, litecoin and namecoin in particular.

[adrianandmel]

S.Dice is quite a good company to invest with. With good history.
Also look at some Mining shares that who are going for some ASIC works (ASICMINER-PT on btct.co)

[thebankofbitcoins]

litecoin  is good choice

[Dreamweaver]

Lethn makes some good suggestions, and I'd like to add Bitfunder. When GLBSE was taken down, bitfunder made it possible to redeem GLBSE assets, and (I might be wrong on this), but a couple GLBSE assets are now on bitfunder. From my experience with it, its a pretty good service, and the assets so far are very reliable.

[jokerdragon]

I fully recomend 1broker.
My relationship and trades there are really what I was looking for.
Simple interface, correct spread values, full comunication with owner, fast deposits/withdraws.
I give a Chuck Norris thumb up for it !

[rayvellest]

When Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin he asked Chuck Norris to hash the first block. He did it with an abacus in 60 seconds.

[jokerdragon]

I heard this, but no abacus, pencil+paper.

[Endgame]

Simply holding bitcoin has proven to be a great investment in the past. As has holding some of the popular alt coins such as litecoin and namecoin.

[Centaure]

Buy a miner!  The new BFL labs ones look amazing

There is great risk that the miners will not get rich but only the producer of the mines. It seems like the shovel maker gets rich but not the gold miner.

If we are lucky then miners and produces will get rich....

[Herodes]

Where do you trade USD for bitcoins, then to Silver/Gold?
Or do you mean through multiple exchanges?

Coinabul.com is pretty good for silver.

Theres a few Silver funds on the exchanges.

Coinabull has received quite a few scammer complaints recently:

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152382.0
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152575.0
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=149253.0

[jokerdragon]

vircurex (www.vircurex.com) have many satisfied investors. Also, as I saw on bitcoin channel on youtube, it have many alt-coins to invest. On the moment, looks like the rally is happening at DVCs:

BTC - Bitcoin
Bid   Ask   Last   Volume
EUR/BTC   20.0000 0000   39.5000 0000   40.0000 0000   2.3868
USD/BTC   44.5100 0000   46.5000 0000   45.9900 0000   4.5333
BTC/DVC   0.0000 0185   0.0000 0220   0.0000 0221   307.4400
BTC/IXC   0.0000 7000   0.0001 4000   0.0001 5000   21.7152
BTC/LTC   0.0135 1000   0.0142 5000   0.0143 0000   206.5314
BTC/NMC   0.0036 2000   0.0037 8800   0.0036 2000   26.1879
BTC/PPC   0.0004 0190   0.0004 2000   0.0004 3900   175.6569
BTC/SC   0.0007 5000   0.0008 4444   0.0008 4444   0.7074
BTC/TRC   0.0036 0000   0.0039 9999   0.0037 0000   167.3149


Disclamer: I own some DVCs. 

[silverkinguk]

I am aware of a new bitcoin fund that is about to start trading on April 1st,though will be first time it will be trading.

[StanChan]

Lethn makes some good suggestions, and I'd like to add Bitfunder. When GLBSE was taken down, bitfunder made it possible to redeem GLBSE assets, and (I might be wrong on this), but a couple GLBSE assets are now on bitfunder. From my experience with it, its a pretty good service, and the assets so far are very reliable.

This sounds great. Would you be willing to write a tute or provide a resource on how to make money using bitfunder. I'm a techie and financial stuff makes no sense to me.