10 ETH or 1 BTC?

[SirJEsq]

With $3000 to invest, is there any advantages to either, with the expectations/hopes that they both will continue to grow?  Just trying to see what others would do, as I plan to let this initial investment sit for 5yrs minimum in a cold wallet.

Thanks ladies and gents!

[mrcash02]

Bitcoin is the main Crypto-Currency, the best one. Some people like to invest in ETH or diversify funds among different currencies, but I personally would prefer for now to put all my tickets in BTC. The price will probably increase a lot in few months (who knows, maybe 50%-100%), I'm not sure if ETH has the same potential... I don't think so.

1 BTC worth much more than 10 or even 100 ETH.  

Especially because you want to put it into a cold wallet for at least 5 years, BTC potential is huge on long term.

[profitgenerator212]

I think ETH is better, I am trading PPT and Veritasium tokens on EtherDelta. It's an easy 10-15% profit daily, market moves up and down all the time, it's very easy to make money in my opinion.

BTC is at risk now with the things on August 1, I think that is risky to invest in it now, but ETH is cool.

[SulemanSamf]

If your are talking about right know I will go for 1 btc or else 10 ETH in future like 5-8 years later maybe.
So ETH is gaining it value but bitcoin has gained it.
So according to me btc will be best.
But ETH also by seeing it price growth

[SirJEsq]

thanks for the opinions fellas, and explanations to back your thinking!!

@mrcash....really?!... you personally think 100ETH is worth less than 1 BTC?....Is that a general consensus between those "well versed" in the game? (I see you've posted quite a bit in this forum, so I assuming you know your stuff somewhat....enlighten me por favor!)

[Wendigo]

Split your investments 50:50 or 30:70 in favor of Bitcoin. Also after the fork Bitcoin on the main chain might go down considerably in price so you could buy then and net more profit.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Personally I'd suggest you to go for bitcoin, ETH could quite easily be a huge failure after an epic pump & dump. Bitcoin is the real deal

[newIndia]

With $3000 to invest, is there any advantages to either, with the expectations/hopes that they both will continue to grow?  Just trying to see what others would do, as I plan to let this initial investment sit for 5yrs minimum in a cold wallet.

Thanks ladies and gents!

BTC value is still less than 3000 USD. Buy 1 BTC and buy ETC with the rest of ETC. ETC rise will most likely be like ETH in 2018.

[KrakAJAX]

with that kind of money I would be looking long term, and I believe Ether still has a bit of time to dip down a bit to the reload zone. Either way you'll likely profit its just a matter of timing the entry.

[Ucy]

Better to diversify, Bro.. that is: $1500BTC  and 5 Ethereum.  It is the safest thing to do.
Ethereum is pretty cheap now. . It will most definitely go up soon. Bitcoin could go up as well from August 1.

[Xavofat]

Well here you're going to get shitloads of people with ulterior motives for asking you to buy each cryptocurrency, none of whom actually provide any justification for their belief.  It's like a couple of tribes screaming at each other and not even hearing what each other are saying.

If you ask me, both have their use cases and their use cases are not the same.  What you need to understand though is that Ether is just coming out of a massive pump and dump, which caused a huge number of people to think that Ether would surpass Bitcoin very soon in market cap, even though that was infeasible.  You can see on the chart that it started going off the rails around February.  If you bought in from March onwards, you're buying in dangerous territory.

Bitcoin has had a similar rise, but only by 200-300%, rather than 2000-3000%.  There's also the fact that Bitcoin has been through this very cycle about 5 times before and there is some kind of maturity in the market, whereas for ETH this is pretty new and actual usage of it has not matched the price surge at all.
You can expect that the ETH bubble will burst, because the majority of current ICOs are pure hype.  After that, perhaps we'll start seeing useful things built on the Ethereum blockchain, at which point buying in is fine.  Right now I would recommend having the majority of your funds in Bitcoin and ETH just as a hedge, because Bitcoin's utility is about to improve (SegWit+LN+potentially a block size increase).

[xskl0]

Bitcoin

[pressureonme]

With $3000 to invest, is there any advantages to either, with the expectations/hopes that they both will continue to grow?  Just trying to see what others would do, as I plan to let this initial investment sit for 5yrs minimum in a cold wallet.

Thanks ladies and gents!

BTC value is still less than 3000 USD. Buy 1 BTC and buy ETC with the rest of ETC. ETC rise will most likely be like ETH in 2018.

I vote for 10 ETH here. I believe ethereum will exceed the price of 0.1 bitcoin next month and will start to rise up to 0.15 bitcoin. Investors are now in bitcoin, after they leave bitcoin, they will get in ethereum.

[SirJEsq]

Thank you all for your input. I'm going to most likely invest in 1BTC, and then go from there as it seems as though the majority of older guys are saying so, and more importantly, my gut says get 1 BTC and then dabble from there.

Appreciate all responses, especially the lengthy in-depth ones!

[flashbit]

for five years its definitely bitcoin.

Now if you ask the same question for only 1 year I should reconsider my answer.

And don't worry, bitcoin will die again, just don't read anything about it, forget it then come back in 2022.

[hosseinimr93]

If I can afford to invest 3000 dollar now, I buy both Ethereum and Bitcoin ( 0.8 BTC and 2 ETH). Both coins has the potential to increase in value very much in 5 years.

I think wait for 5 years and do nothing is not a good plan.  We don't know what will happen to cryptocurrencies in future. Maybe it's better to buy a new coin that doesn't exist today in the future with your Bitcoins or Ethereums. You should follow the news and make right decisions during these five years.

[gon]

I would buy ETH for $3K instead of bitcoin. Because in past few weeks the ETH-BTC price dropped significantly. If btc rise or fall, the ETH price will do the same. BUT I'm expecting ETH to gain value over BTC in next months again.

[bongiu]

With $3000 to invest, is there any advantages to either, with the expectations/hopes that they both will continue to grow?  Just trying to see what others would do, as I plan to let this initial investment sit for 5yrs minimum in a cold wallet.

Thanks ladies and gents!

I think you should invest in 1 BTC. Btc has a defined limits for the amount of coins that it can have. Eth don't. That makes eth illimited, and when there is more supply than demand, the price goes down. You don't see that happening with bitcoin because the supply is limited.

[sHeRiLyN1618]

If i was you i will prefer to choice 10 ETH, because Ethereum have bright future. Although Bitcoin price is very good. But if holding for 5 years ETH is very good than Bitcoin.

[BitJunkie556]

In objective reality, ETH is the better medium of exchange, and it's not even technically built to be a currency per se. More to be used as gas for smart contracts.

But there's a reason I have about 5 BTC and haven't traded in the 100 Ethereum I have for more BTC. It's because I want to diversify my investments. I do believe both will go up exponentially in the next few years, so whether one goes up more than the other, I don't think one in your situation can lose, really...

But part of me feels that BTC will always be the gold standard. Why not just do half and half? About 5 Eth and .5 BTC?

At the end of the day, you'll be glad you bought either one, I'm sure.